The ‘State of Modern Applications in the Cloud’ report from analytics platform Sumo Logic shows that businesses of all sizes are transforming at an unprecedented pace in order to compete in the digital era. However, they are often being hampered by legacy technologies and inefficient siloed processes and tools that are ill-equipped to handle today’s volume of data.
Among other findings are that Linux is now the dominant operating system in AWS and is growing fast on Azure — up from four percent in 2016 to 12 percent this year. MySQL is the number one database running in AWS, and along with Redis, Riak and MongoDB, accounts for 50 percent of database adoption. Microsoft SQL and Oracle DB significantly lag in terms of usage in AWS and are only adopted by a combined six percent of customers. NGINX and Apache are the leading web servers in AWS.
Security is still a major concern for enterprises moving to the cloud as their legacy on-premise security/SIEM tools are insufficient. But despite this only 50 percent of enterprises are using CloudTrail, the primary security audit for AWS.
