Big Data and Machine Learning Services Lead the Way
If you’ve been reading this blog, or otherwise following the enterprise tech market, you know that the worldwide cloud services market is strong. According to Gartner, the market is projected to grow by 17% in 2019, to over $206 billion.
Within that market, enterprise IT departments are embracing cloud infrastructure and related services like never before. They’re attracted to tools and technologies that enable innovation, cost savings, faster-time-to-market for new digital products and services, flexibility and productivity. They want to be able to scale their infrastructure up and down as the situation warrants, and they’re enamored with the idea of “digital transformation.”
In its short history, cloud infrastructure has never been more exciting. At 2nd Watch, we are fortunate to have a front-row seat to the show, with more than 400 enterprise workloads under management and over 200,000 instances in our managed public cloud. With 2018 now in our rearview mirror, we thought this a good time for a quick peek back at the most popular Amazon Web Services (AWS) products of the past year. We aggregated and anonymized our AWS customer data from 2018, and here’s what we found:
The top five AWS products of 2018 were: Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (used by 100% of 2nd Watch customers); AWS Data Transfer (100%); Amazon Simple Storage Service (100%); Amazon DynamoDB (100%) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (100%). Frankly, the top five list isn’t surprising. It is, however, indicative of legacy workloads and architectures being run by the enterprise.
Meanwhile, the fastest-growing AWS products of 2018 were: Amazon Athena (68% CAGR, as measured by dollars spent on this service with 2nd Watch in 2018 v. 2017); Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (53%); Amazon MQ (37%); AWS OpsWorks (23%); Amazon EC2 Container Service (21%); Amazon SageMaker (21%); AWS Certificate Manager (20%); and AWS Glue (16%).
The growth in data services like Athena and Glue, correlated with Sagemaker, is interesting. Typically, the hype isn’t supported by the data, but clearly, customers are moving forward with big data and machine learning strategies. These three services were also the fastest growing services in Q4 2018.
Looking ahead, I expect EKS to be huge this year, along with Sagemaker and serverless. Based on job postings and demand in the market, Kubernetes is the most requested skill set in the enterprise. For a look at the other AWS products and services that rounded out our list for 2018, download our infographic.
– Chris Garvey, EVP Product
