New analysis of how much work companies are doing in the cloud via Amazon Web Services proves that cloud is already viable for much more than startup needs or "toy" applications, CIO.com's Bernard Golden argues.
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Inside Amazon's Cloud: Just How Many Customer Projects?
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Anonymouse Wed, 2009-09-30 05:01
Or it could be one user creating 50,000 instances a day, with which we can confidently state you don't know squat.
Anonymous Thu, 2009-10-01 09:19
I have to agree with the previous poster. If Amazon were really doing that kind of volume, they'd be screaming about it in the press.
Anonymous Fri, 2009-10-02 11:01
Morons, thats 50,000 *new* instances per day.
Robert @ IDC Mon, 2009-10-05 13:42
I think you are both right. If AWS was doing this kind of volume from individual distinct users, they'd be talking about it as much as possible, so there's doubtless some overlap and overbuying by single-entity users. But even if you discount the order of magnitude, it's a ton of AMIs provisioned on EC2 vs. VMs on IDC's shipped server number. To me the takeaway from this excellent analysis is that it's easy to see how server underutilization and license inflexibility are the number 1 and 2 reasons IBM cites for demand for their cloud services, esp around test & dev -- we at IDC hear the same from our customers.
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