Top three public cloud services used
We will not speak about compute and object storage; it’s obvious that they take the first two positions. But let’s talk about the next three.
At Hystax, we’ve recently conducted a broad survey with more than 400 respondents and got interesting results. I expected to see firewalls, big data services and cloud native databases – services that can fully utilize elasticity of a cloud. But I was not 100% accurate. So the top three are:
Relational databases (RDS, Google Cloud SQL and Azure Cosmos DB) – no surprise here as everybody uses databases, and, if the company is ‘born in a cloud’, there is a perfect sense to use the cloud native service. But… There are some companies which explicitly say that they run databases in VMs only as they don’t want to get into a ‘vendor lock-in’ trap.
34% of respondents use Lambdas for various tasks. Some survey participants run it for compute, some run clean-up scripts by schedule. It looks like the technology to execute some piece of code is highly adopted for different granular tasks.
Certainly, the technology should be in this list as everybody uses containers for R&D, research or even in production. AWS Fargate and Google Anthos are the leaders here. But there is a strong countertrend of running kubernetes and containers in VMs; the split here is about 30% for cloud native services and the rest for on-premise (I mean VMs but not private clouds, of course).
Please, feel free to read my recent article ‘How to avoid double bubble during cloud migration’ here.
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