2ndWatch Report reveals security tools are most popular on AWS. As an original partner of Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), and a specialist in helping enterprises migrate to the cloud, 2ndWatch has unique insight into AWS usage trends. It shared this report which revealed that security tools were the most requested third-party purchase. The data it collected from 75,000+ AWS instances was used by the Seattle company to compile a usage report detailing the most popular AWS products, instance type, regions, and so forth. In a blog post, Jeff Aden, a company executive, stated that cloud-based security products topped the list for most-purchased third-party products for AWS deployments. “The top four products included Alert Logic Log Manager, Alert Logic Threat Manager, AlienVault Unified Security Management, Barracuda Web Application Firewall, and Alert Logic Threat Manager. This is a natural trend given the fact that more companies from highly regulated industries are migrating data and applications to AWS. [Click on the image to see a larger view. Marketplace Product Rank (source 2nd Watch). 2nd Watch found that more enterprises are transferring Big Data to the Amazon cloud based on an increase in medium-sized EC2 instances since the fourth quarter last year. 2nd Watch also highlighted the following stats:

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Windows-based instances are increasing (from 34 percent to 76 percent in Q4 at the expense Linux instances, which fell from 66 to 24 percent.
Nearly everyone uses S3 storage (97%) with other popular products being EC2 (82%), SNS messaging (70%), SQS message quuing (61.4%) and relational database service (46.6%).
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 at 29 percent were small and medium, followed by large (17%) and extra large (10%).

2nd Watch stated that it would be interesting to see how the data changes over the next quarters. “For example, we will be monitoring to see if Amazon’s continued investment into Redshift and EC2 Container Service availablility have an effect on how customers use AWS. The Q1 Scorecard data supports what customers are saying: Big companies are moving more of their business-critical data and applications into the public cloud. This is a trend that we don’t expect to change anytime soon. You can find the PDF infographic here.