Security tools top the list of AWS add-ons
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According to a recent survey by 2nd Watch, security tools were the most popular third-party purchase for Amazon cloud deployments.
Security is big business, especially in the Amazon cloud. According to a recent survey by 2ndWatch, security tools were the most popular third-party purchase for AWS deployments.
2nd Watch, an Amazon Web Services consulting partner, collected data from the 75,000-plus AWS instances it manages to compile a usage report for the first quarter of the year, detailing the most popular AWS products, instance types, regions and so on.
"Cloud-based security products once again topped the list of most purchased third-party products for AWS deployments," company exec Jeff Aden said in a blog post last month. "This trend makes sense given that more companies in highly regulated industries are moving data and applications to AWS."
The top six products were:
- Alert Logic Log Manager for AWS
- Alert Logic Threat Manager for AWS
- AlienVault Unified Security Management for AWS
- Barracuda Web Application Firewall
- Cisco CSR1000V: AX Technology Package for Maximum Performance
- Cloud Protection Manager Enterprise Edition.
Turning to usage stats, 2nd Watch concluded that enterprises are transferring more big data and other analytics applications to the Amazon cloud, judging from an increase in medium-size EC2 instances from the fourth quarter of last year.
Other stats highlighted by 2nd Watch included:
Windows-based instances are growing (from 34 percent in Q4 to 76 percent) at the expense of Linux instances, which decreased from 66 percent to 24 percent.
Almost everyone (97 percent) uses S3 storage, with other popular products being EC2 (82 percent), SNS messaging (70 percent), SQS message queuing (61.4 percent) and relational database service (RDS), at 46.9 percent.
Among databases, the RDS MySQL service -- with the bring-your-own-license (BYOL) option -- led the pack with 29 percent usage, followed by EC2 SQL Server Standard (16 percent), EC2 SQL Server Web (4 percent), RDS Oracle SE (4 percent) and RDS PostreSQL (3 percent).
The most popular EC2 types were small and medium, both at 29 percent, followed by large (17 percent) and extra large (10 percent).
“The Q1 Scorecard data backs up what we're hearing from customers,” 2nd Watch said. “Big companies are moving more business-critical data and applications to the public cloud. And that's a trend we don't see changing anytime soon."
A PDF infographic of the report can be found here.
This article originally appeared on AWSinsider, a sister site to GCN.
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