Amazon EC2 Resource Usage Chart
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud computing provider Amazon Web Services (aws.amazon.com/ec2) is launching more than 50,000 new instances a day in a single region, according to a recent analysis cited in a report by Data Center Knowledge.
Performed in a 24-hour period from September 8th through 9th, cloud technologist Guy Rosen analyzed Amazon EC2′s activity by logging its events using Amazon resource IDs.
In the analysis, Rosen estimated that the cloud storage service has launched 8.4 million instances since it first launched in August 2006.
The results included a total of 50,242 instances requested, 12,840 EBS volumes requested, 30,925 EBS snapshots requested, and 41,121 reservations requested.
Amazon EC2 is a service that provides scalable compute capacity in the cloud out of Amazon data centers for customers to run applications.
Earlier this year, Rosen measured the number of websites hosted on EC2 and other top cloud providers.
Since the analysis is taken from data over the course of just one day, Rosen acknowledges that the results could be altered by many factors. Despite this, he says the results of the analysis are “impressive, to say the least.”
