The use of Amazon’s dedicated cloud instances may be on rise, but does that make sense?
April 22, 2014
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
Dedicated cloud instances are something of an oxymoron. The traditional understanding of cloud computing is that it runs stuff from many users runs on shared infrastructure. Dedicated instances, by definition, aren’t shared and thus could appeal to a class of users who worry about the drag that neighboring workloads can have on their jobs — the so-called “noisy neighbor” problem. They also may suit those who see shared infrastructure as not compliant to various industry regulations.
There are enough companies worried about such things that Amazon Web Services launched dedicated instances in March 2011 and significantly cut prices on them in July. Since that price cut — which amounted to nearly 80 percent in some cases — the use of AWS dedicated instances has risen significantly, according to Cloudyn, which monitors AWS and Google cloud usage for customers…
In a blog post, Cloudyn VP of marketing Eron Ambramson wrote that before July 2013, dedicated instances were hardly used at all. But now, 9 months after price cuts, 0.5 percent of the instances it monitors are dedicated. (Cloudyn said it has eyes on 8 percent of total AWS workloads.)…
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