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.

@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.

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

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.