{"id":748706,"date":"2013-04-29T08:03:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T12:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=640436"},"modified":"2013-04-29T08:03:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T12:03:57","slug":"more-fun-facts-about-aws-usage-this-time-from-cloudyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/748706","title":{"rendered":"More fun facts about AWS usage, this time from Cloudyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week it was <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/04\/26\/rightscale-sees-uptick-in-cloud-adoption-and-multi-cloud-use\/\">RightScale,<\/a> now it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudyn.com\/ri-landing\/\">Cloudyn<\/a> eager to share its new data about how real customers use Amazon Web Services.<\/p> <p>According to a survey by Cloudyn and The Big Data Group of 450 Cloudyn customers &#8212; who all use AWS &#8212; here are the main takeaways:<\/p> <ul> <li>Amazon&#8217;s EC2 constitutes nearly two-thirds (62 percent) of total AWS spending.<\/li> <li>More than half of those EC2 users now deploy Reserved Instances as part of their deployment.<\/li> <li>On-demand pricing remains the number one choice for most users &#8212; it sucks up 71 percent of all their EC2 spending.<\/li> <li>The S3 Simple Storage Service is still the most popular storage option, although <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2012\/08\/21\/amazon-serves-up-glacier-slow-moving-storage-for-backup-and-archives\/\">Glacier<\/a>, the cheaper archival storage choice, is gaining momentum.<\/li> <li>The largest constituency among the Cloudyn\/AWS users are those who spend less than $50,000 a year on AWS, but they account for\u00a0just 4 percent of total AWS spending.<\/li> <li>Just 4 percent of the customers spend more than $1 million a year on AWS, accounting for 52 percent of total spending.<\/li> <li>Customers who spend less than $50K per year make up the largest group of AWS users, yet account for only 4 percent of total spend.<\/li> <\/ul> <p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/04\/29\/more-fun-facts-about-aws-usage-this-time-from-cloudyn\/cloudynstats\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-640437\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"cloudynstats\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom2.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/cloudynstats.jpg?w=708&#038;h=453&#038;fit=708%2C453&#038;resize=708%2C453\" width=\"708\" height=\"453\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-640437\" \/><\/a><\/p> <p>Cloudyn is one of a half dozen or so startups that have made tracking, monitoring and managing AWS infrastructure their business. 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