State of the Cloud – October 2009
October 3rd, 2009 | Published in State of the Cloud | 11 Comments
With each new month comes a new State of the Cloud post. In case you have joined recently, State of the Cloud is a regular report on the adoption of cloud infrastructures, comparing the market share held by each provider. As always, please refer to the first post in the series for methodology, data sets and caveats.
Today I’m glad to be adding OpSource as the fifth provider compared in the report. Originally, UK-based providers FlexiScale and ElasticHosts were planned for inclusion. However, the US-oriented nature of QuantCast’s rankings resulted in underrepresentation of their customer base (recall that QuantCast’s top site list is the data set for this research). At this point, they will be omitted from the report.
Snapshot for October 2009
No big surprises for us this month. Amazon EC2 continues to lead the pack with Rackspace Cloud Servers closely behind. Newcomer OpSource enters into fifth place with 19 hits from the sites sampled.
Monthly Growth
Last month, it was Amazon EC2 that outpaced the rest of the providers. This month, it was Rackspace which exhibited the fastest growth, with over 10% since last month!
Trends
With more and more data to track, the major trends are beginning to take shape. The primary contenders continue to be Amazon EC2 and Rackspace Cloud Servers. It will no doubt be interesting to watch how the battle for the top spot unfolds over the coming months.
October 3rd, 2009 at 11:25 pm (#)
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October 4th, 2009 at 11:42 am (#)
Hi Guy
I’m following your stats for some time now – they are useful so thanks.
I would appreciate if you brought back the Google Apps Engine stats.
I understand your reasoning – GAE is PaaS while AWS & RS are IaaS. Fair enough.
Nevertheless, you are measuring “top 500K websites” which is an app measure. Its actually at the SaaS layer.
So GAE’s PaaS contribution to the overall top SaaS numbers seems relevant. It is certainly useful for me to strategize around these numbers.
Thanks for a useful website.
October 6th, 2009 at 5:53 pm (#)
Guy –
As usual with you, this is amazingly insightful and useful analysis. One interesting thing to see is how does VMWare’s vCloud Express is doing compared to the other IaaS providers.
vCloud Express is only the software infrastructure that runs these clouds, which are actually hosted on various physical providers, such as Terremark and AT&T. While each of these may not be in the top5, vCloud as a whole may be and is interesting to track.
Geva
October 6th, 2009 at 10:03 pm (#)
@GPN – GAE is definitely interesting, but I’m opting to stay away for two reasons: firstly due to the whole PaaS/IaaS confusion. Secondly, it turns out to me much trickier to measure than I had originally thought.
@Geva – thanks for the kind words :-). I can tell you that Terremark’s vCloud Express cloud has zero hits right now in my sample. I’ve actually looked into these, and plan to add them as soon as they start to make some sort of impact, however minimal, in the dataset.
October 10th, 2009 at 9:03 pm (#)
Guy
I just wanted to start by saying that I love the monthly reports. I was wondering, would you be willing to release some of your data? I’m not sure how proprietary you consider it.
Basically, I think something that might be helpful is a list that looks like:
Quantcast Rank Site name Cloud Provider
As the guy who runs site #1003 (reddit.com, the first Conde Nast property to “go cloud”), I’m kind of curious as to how many of the sites above us are on one of the providers that you track.
Thanks! Keep up the awesome work.
October 18th, 2009 at 3:35 pm (#)
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June 25th, 2010 at 4:38 pm (#)
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July 11th, 2010 at 5:17 pm (#)
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December 14th, 2010 at 7:41 pm (#)
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