December 16th, 2009 | by Guy Rosen | published in Analysis
Two weeks ago, Amazon announced the launch of a new N. California region, us-west-1. This is now the third region in Amazon’s portfolio, following the N. Virginia-based us-east-1 region and the Ireland-based eu-west-1. I got curious to see how fast the new region was being adopted. Luckily, with the Anatomy of an Amazon EC2 Resource [...]
December 10th, 2009 | by Guy Rosen | published in Analysis
We’ve seen Amazon EC2′s usage. We’ve also seen GoGrid’s usage. In this post, we’ll take a peek at how many servers are being spun up by users of Rackspace Cloud Servers. In the State of the Cloud series Rackspace seems to be a close second to Amazon. Will the usage data provide confirmation of this? [...]
December 5th, 2009 | by Guy Rosen | published in State of the Cloud
December is already upon us! Following a small delay due to the days spent at the IGT2009 cloud conference, here are this month’s statistics on cloud usage among the web’s top sites. The first post in the series describes methodology, data sets and caveats. Snapshot for December 2009 Little seems to change in this chart [...]
