Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Simple Storage Service and Amazon Simple Notification Service dominate the list.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) and 2nd Watch work together to determine the most popular AWS products to be used between January and October 2019. AWS has used data from 2nd Watch clients to create the list.
Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Simple Storage Service, Amazon Simple Notification Service, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, AWS Key Management Service, AmazonCloudWatch, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud were at the top of the list – all with a 100% usage rate.
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“It is important to note that although people switch from IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-service) to PaaS (Platform-as-a-service), it is a slow transition. We tend to see the same products at the top 30 year-on-year because the acceptance of PaaS solutions usually evolves more slowly, but accelerates as the public cloud becomes more ingrained in modern technology solutions, “said Willy Sennott, manager of optimization practices at 2nd Watch.
“2nd Watch is a managed capacity reseller and a managed services provider for our clients’ cloud assets,” Sennott said. “While we support their cloud resources, we can determine which services our customers use and what value they derive from it.”
Ahead of AWS re: Invent next week, 2nd Watch identified the most popular AWS services of the year, along with everyone’s use.
Top 30 products and services
- Amazon DynamoDB (100%)
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (100%)
- Amazon Simple Notification Service (100%)
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (100%)
- AWS Key Management Service (100%)
- AmazonCloudWatch (100%)
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (100%)
- AWS CloudTrail (98%)
- AWS data transfer (95%)
- Amazon Simple Queue Service (90%)
- Amazon relational database service (88%)
- Amazon Route 53 (85%)
- AWS Lambda (83%)
- Amazon Simple Email Service (70%)
- Amazon CloudFront (68%)
- AWS Config (65%)
- AWS Secrets Manager (65%)
- AWS glue (63%)
- AWS step functions (63%)
- Amazon ElastiCache (60%)
- AWS Systems Manager (58%)
- Amazon API Gateway (58%)
- Amazon Simple Workflow Service (55%)
- Amazon Glacier (53%)
- Elastic file system from Amazon (53%)
- Amazon WorkSpaces (53%)
- AWS Direct Connect (50%)
- Amazon EC2 Container Service (50%)
- Amazon EC2 Container Registry (ECR) (50%)
- Amazon Elasticsearch service (48%)
The top services in the list have received their status because they are fundamental to cloud activities, Sennot said.
“Others, such as AWS CloudTrail, AWS KMS, AWS CloudWatch, are used for best practices and we encourage our customers to follow,” Sennot said. “Furthermore, other services such as S3 and DynamoDB show the power to become cloud native.”
The services that save 2nd Watch customers the most money were those for optimization, including reserved instances (RIs). “RIs are a fast way to generate savings without having to change the underlying infrastructure and can be deployed throughout the environment,” Sennott said. “The greater savings, however, stem from the transformation of applications and operational processes.”
In 2020, services related to savings plans will gain ground. “Because optimization remains an important initiative for our customers, ways to take advantage of financial levers at the company level will become increasingly important,” Sennott said.
The most surprising finding on the list was the sudden acceptance of AWS Step Function, according to Sennott.
“Rising from the fact that only 30% of customers are using in January, to 63% in October, this increase seems to be consistent with support for nested workflows and dynamic parallelism in workflows,” Sennott said. “Although newer, it will be strongly taken over by customers in 2019 and used to easily coordinate and manage applications workflows microservices and ensure scalability.”
The advantage of AWS Step Function is that it makes designing complex workflows less strenuous, which is invaluable for those who focus on serverless and unchanging cloud architectures, Sennott said.
“Our customers can quickly realize faster time-to-market and lower operational costs associated with services such as these,” Sennott said. “Whether used for long-term business processes or processing large data sets, it enables the customer to focus on his core activities.”
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