{"id":12441,"date":"2015-02-09T00:50:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T00:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/feb\/09\/aws-usage-analysis-ec2-more-popular-s3-softnas-gaining-ground\/"},"modified":"2015-02-09T00:50:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T00:50:33","slug":"aws-usage-analysis-ec2-more-popular-than-s3-softnas-gaining-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/aws-usage-analysis-ec2-more-popular-than-s3-softnas-gaining-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS usage analysis: EC2 more popular than S3, SoftNAS gaining ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picture credit: NandorFejer\/Flickr<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The latest figures from public cloud management workload provider 2nd Watch has found a significant uptake in network access storage (NAS) products from customers using Amazon Web Services (AWS).<\/p>\n

2nd Watch, which manages more than 10,000 AWS instances for enterprise, put together a scorecard showing the hits and misses of Q414. EC2 remains the most popular AWS service, with 98% of customers using it, just ahead of S3 (97%). Amazon’s SNS push notification service was the next most popular (65%), ahead of hosted message queuing service SQS (46%), and relational database RDS (45%).<\/p>\n

Yet it was storage that proved the most interesting entry in this quarter’s scorecard, with three SoftNAS services making the top five product rank. SoftNAS Cloud (#2), Cloud Standard (#3) and Cloud Express (#5) all featured, but all behind Barracuda Web Application Firewall which topped the chart. NGINX Plus rounded off the top five.<\/p>\n

The majority of users plump for small EC2 types (35%), compared alongside medium (19%), large (17%) and extra large (13%). Performance monitoring analysts Cloud Spectator mused in a January report<\/a> that EC2 offered “significant” cost advantages over a long term investments, therefore expect this trend to arguably increase in the coming quarters. AWS was also at the summit when CloudHarmony examined the most reliable public cloud providers<\/a> in 2014.<\/p>\n

The average rate for EC2-SQL Server Standard was $0.786, while it was $0.465 for EC2-SQL Server Web. By region, South America ($0.578) was the most expensive, followed by US East ($0.403), EMEA ($0.137), Asia Pacific ($0.135) and US West ($0.125).<\/p>\n

Even though EC2-SQL Server Standard was the most expensive on the card, it had dropped from $1.27 in Q314. 2nd Watch attributes this to more companies leveraging the T2 class instance over the traditional M class – and adds that this trend will continue apace for Q115.<\/p>\n

Figures from CloudEndure in January<\/a> found AWS had a 41% reduction in performance issues quarter to quarter during 2014. With these numbers on top, it certainly provides a compelling argument. 2nd Watch has had a busy couple of months itself, announcing its Cloud Factory service to offer a fixed fee migration service to AWS, as well as doubling its revenue in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Picture credit: NandorFejer\/Flickr
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