State of the Cloud – September 2010
September 9th, 2010 | Published in State of the Cloud | 8 Comments
Summer’s over, September’s here, and that means it’s time for another monthly installment of the State of the Cloud report.
Snapshot for September 2010
Here are the results for this month.
This month Amazon regains the edge lost last month with solid 8% growth since August. However, this month Rackspace takes a hit, losing over 5% of the sites hosted. Looks, however, may be deceiving – there seems to have been a blip in the Quantcast data set used as input, which resulted in quite a number of sites dropping completely from the top 500k. It’s not immediately clear why Rackspace would be hit more than others, but since most of these are now back in their former ranks then next month’s data should correct the trends.
Trends
Coming up
It’s been a year since the groundbreaking Anatomy of an EC2 Resource ID research, that shed light on the volume of usage Amazon’s cloud is seeing. Later this month we’ll go back to see how much has changed in the past year. Stay tuned!
September 9th, 2010 at 10:02 pm (#)
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September 15th, 2010 at 4:50 am (#)
Guy,
This is interesting stuff. Have you considered using a weighting system since all sites are being treated equally here?.
I would think that hosting site #100 should carry more weight than hosting site #499999. Perhaps you add up their “inverse-rank” scores to get an idea of the significance of the total set of sites being hosted.
Regards,
Wazza
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September 15th, 2010 at 10:27 am (#)
@Warren, that’s a great idea. Of course, the question would arise on how we factor in the rank in a way that’s fair – how much more weight is site #100 vs. site #499999?
Perhaps the truly accurate method would be to take the estimated traffic of each site and use that as the weight. The result would be a comparison of traffic hosted by each cloud provider, which would be a fascinating number to examine.
October 6th, 2010 at 4:38 am (#)
Guy – any update on your fantastic analysis of the AWS resource IDs? You promised something in September!
Keep up the good work.
October 6th, 2010 at 9:20 am (#)
Sorry Michael, September came and went but there’s something cooking. Details soon…
November 5th, 2010 at 12:44 pm (#)
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January 2nd, 2011 at 6:31 am (#)
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January 9th, 2011 at 5:10 am (#)
Awesome statics shown by you on graphs. Very informative and accurate information.
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