New Infographics Provide Interesting Perspectives on Amazon Cloud Workloads

Grazed from TheWhir.  Author: David Hamilton.

I was sent a few infographics over the past few days regarding Amazon Web Services that provide some insight into how organizations are using AWS, as well as how it compares with other IT infrastructure options.  The first was from workload management provider 2nd Watch, which provides a look at what its customers typically used for their cloud services based on anonymized data from its thousands of customers over the four months from July to October.

Organizations using EC2 typically used Small instances (38 percent), followed by Medium (19 percent) and XLarge (15 percent). The very large (2XLarge, 4XLarge and 8XLarge) and very small (Micro) made up only 27 percent collectively…


Among its customers, 94 percent use the S3 storage service, 66 percent use the Simple Notification Service (or “SNS”) for push messaging to mobile devices & distributed services, and 41 percent use Amazon’s Relational Database Service (or “Amazon RDS”) Database-as-a-Service service…

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