Welcome to this month’s update on adoption of cloud providers by public-facing websites. For details on how this is calculated, please see the first post in the series. This month we’ll take a step back and try to appreciate the overall size of the cloud as a whole. But first, to the regular numbers -
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Last Tuesday I joined John Rowell for a chat about cloud trends. Below is the recording of the show.
Like many in the cloud community, these days I am gearing up for CloudConnect in Santa Clara next month. If you’re going to be there, be sure to catch me and say hi. Don’t miss my appearance [...]
Next Tuesday I’ll be joining John Rowell, OpSource co-founder and CTO, for the second episode of The Real Cloud. In the spirit of this blog, we’ll be chatting about cloud adoption trends and calling out the real numbers behind the hype.
Be sure to come and watch, as well as to post your questions during the [...]
Back in September, I published the Anatomy of an EC2 Resource ID where I pointed out some curious patterns in EC2’s ID scheme and proposed a method of “decoding” these patterns to reveal an underlying serial number. In that post I was careful to write that “while the patterns are indisputable, there remain unknowns and [...]
Welcome to the eighth update for the State of the Cloud series. In case you are just joining – this monthly report measures the adoption of leading cloud providers amongst public-facing websites. The data set is based on the top 500,000 sites as measured by QuantCast. As always I’d like to point out the caveats [...]
A new year, a new decade… and also a new month. What a better way to welcome the new year than our regular report on the cloud computing industry. Will 2010 be the year of the cloud? Many are expecting a major shift of the traditional hosting industry, large and small, into the cloud space [...]
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 [...]
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 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 from month [...]
In previous posts, we’ve gone to great lengths to make educated guesses regarding Amazon EC2 usage. Amazon, however, are not alone in the cloud space. It makes sense that we do the same for other providers to get an idea of their comparative levels of usage.
In today’s post, we’ll be discussing such an analysis of [...]
