This "Cloud Market" stats they quote (which they've quoted in the past) seems like a very dead website. Looking at the site: http://thecloudmarket.com/stats#/b

This "Cloud Market" stats they quote (which they've quoted in the past) seems like a very dead website. Looking at the site: http://thecloudmarket.com/stats#/by_platform_definition http://thecloudmarket.com/stats#/by_platform_definition The numbers haven't changed in the last 2 years, looking at "Popular Images": http://thecloudmarket.com/#/popular http://thecloudmarket.com/#/popular The top listed image is Ubuntu 7.10 ("Gutsy") from 2007... .. and looking at recently added the most recent is from 1 year ago: http://thecloudmarket.com/#/recentlyadded http://thecloudmarket.com/#/recentlyadded So a bit of a bad journalism moment there I think that's a very bad source! I'm sure theres a more recent source but one 2015 article claimed that Canonical was claiming "In 2015, over 2 million Ubuntu instances were launched in the cloud – Based on their statistics, Canonical claims that 67,000 new Ubuntu cloud instances are launched every day! That’s by far the largest number that any OS vendor can dream! Ubuntu dominates the LAMP deployments in the cloud." So indeed, probably missing a few zeros :) I can't find a newer public source, but this blog post from 2015 has some numbers for Ubuntu: https://blog.ubuntu.com/2015/12/22/more-people-use-ubuntu-than-anyone-actually-knows https://blog.ubuntu.com/2015/12/22/more-people-use-ubuntu-th... - At least 20 million unique instances of Ubuntu have launched in public clouds, private clouds, and bare metal in 2015 itself. - In fact, over 2 million new Ubuntu cloud instances launched in November 2015. - That’s 67,000 new Ubuntu cloud instances launched per day. Of course some instances last minutes or days, but never the less. (Disclaimer: I work at Canonical just in case that matters to you)