State of the Cloud – April 2010
April 9th, 2010 | Published in State of the Cloud | 2 Comments
Welcome to update #10 in the regular State of the Cloud series. This month we’ll continue to examine how many of the world’s top websites are using cloud providers.
Many of the smaller providers have had a weak month, some even showing up less this month in the sample than they did previously. Only Amazon and Rackspace continue to plough ahead with Amazon gaining 6% and Rackspace 3%.
Overall cloud growth this month is at 3.9% (=58% CAGR).
April 9th, 2010 at 6:33 pm (#)
Guy,
I assume that Windows Azure and Google App Engine are missing from the preceding graphs because they aren’t commonly used to power Web sites.
Is this assumption correct?
Thanks in advance,
–rj
April 9th, 2010 at 8:39 pm (#)
Roger,
They are left out for being PaaS (Platform as a Service) rather than IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service). Guy’s methodology is outlined in the first post in the series at: http://www.jackofallclouds.com/2009/07/top-sites-on-amazon-ec2-july-2009/ and August of 2009 was the first time he listed out multiple providers: http://www.jackofallclouds.com/2009/08/state-of-the-cloud-august-2009/