Liftr Insights data show where the cloud
providers are aging and by how much
AUSTIN,
Texas, July 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Liftr
Insights, a pioneer in market intelligence driven by unique data,
revealed that while Azure has shown many signs of growth in
North America, the truth is
dependent on the region.
Liftr® tracks data for the six largest cloud providers, which
represent over 75% of the public cloud space. Using Liftr data,
market intelligence analysts can see where public cloud providers
are focusing their investments. For example, Liftr data show that
Microsoft Azure has older infrastructure in both the East and West
regions when compared to AWS.
In the East, 69% of infrastructure is older than 3 years for
both providers; however, for AWS, 19% is added within the past year
compared to only 12% for Azure. The differences are starker in the
West with AWS having only 64% older than 3 years compared with
Azures' 76% and AWS investing over 25% in newer instance types in
the West compared to Azures' 7%.
However, unlike AWS, Azure has major regions in the central
portion of North America. These
Azure regions have more recent investment than AWS has in its
regions in the East or West. In its Central regions, Azure offers
under 63% of the older instance types and over 26% has been added
within the past year.
"A lot of the investment is due to Azure's expansion into newer
regions," says Tab Schadt, CEO of Liftr Insights. "But, we like to
point out to our clients how looking at the growth within different
regions is as interesting as growth within a particular region
compared to other providers."
Providers update physical devices on their own cycles, but to
continue offering older instance types requires the providers to
either maintain or replace the older hardware. So, using objective
data on instance types provides insight into the otherwise opaque
hardware activity.
Two of Liftr data products, Cloud Components
TrackerSM and Intelligence Compute TrackerSM,
are used by market intelligence analysts to evaluate the cloud
providers, their offerings, the underlying semiconductors, and
supporting infrastructure. Liftr customers can use these services
to see the above information or drill-down by workload type,
vendor, brand, or a multitude of other characteristics.
"We want market intelligence analysts to have access to
objective data for their models," says Schadt. "Evaluating the age
of regions by cloud provider is just one example of how Liftr
provides value."
About Liftr Insights
Liftr Insights generates reliable
market intelligence using unique data, including details about
configurations, components, deployment geo, and pricing for:
- Server processors: Intel Xeon, AMD EPYC, Aliyun Yitian, AWS
Graviton, and Ampere Computing Altra
- Datacenter compute accelerators: GPUs, FPGAs, TPUs, and AI
chips from NVIDIA, Xilinx, Intel, AMD, AWS, and Google
As shown on the Liftr Cloud Regions Map at
https://bit.ly/LiftrCloudRegionsMap, among the companies tracked
are Amazon Web Services, Microsoft
Azure, Alibaba
Cloud, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Tencent Cloud, CoreWeave, Lambda, and
Vultr as well as semiconductor vendors AMD,
Ampere, Intel, and NVIDIA. Liftr Insights subject matter
experts translate company-specific service provider data into
actionable alternative data.
Liftr and the Liftr logo are registered service marks of
Liftr Insights. The following are trademarks and/or service marks
of Liftr Insights: Liftr Insights, Cloud Components Tracker,
Intelligence Compute Tracker, and Liftr Cloud Regions
Map.
The following are registered intellectual property marks,
trademarks, or service marks of their respective
companies:
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Alibaba Cloud
Google Cloud
Oracle Cloud
Tencent
Cloud
CoreWeave
Lambda
Vultr
Intel Corporation
Ampere
Computing
NVIDIA
AMD
ARM
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