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AWS is bigger but I doubt they have seen the same type of change in traffic as I don't think they have the same traffic patterns that would be affected by somet

by cc81 7y ago

AWS is bigger but I doubt they have seen the same type of change in traffic as I don't think they have the same traffic patterns that would be affected by something like this. Teams was used before but suddenly in my company you had 100k office workers working from home and all meetings converted to Teams meetings, a lot with video streaming. People also seem to react by booking even more meetings now when the casual talk was gone (instead of chatting casually).

txcwpalpha 7y ago
Isn't Zoom on AWS? So are Slack and Chime (the little known AWS competitor to Teams). As are parts of Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, and of course Prime Video. I don't know the exact numbers but I'm pretty sure the rise in popularity of Zoom is just as high, if not possibly higher, than Teams. Entire universities of 50k+ students started using Zoom for online classes, not to mention all of the companies that have started using it. Then you have all of the people staying at home using the streaming services, etc... my guess is that AWS has seen a huge spike in traffic just as big, if not bigger than Azure saw.
- cc81 7y ago
  >The software giant counted 32 million daily active users of Teams last week on March 11th, but this jumped by 12 million to 44 million daily active users yesterday. https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/19/21186452/microsoft-teams-new-features-noise-supression-user-increase-coronavirus https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/19/21186452/microsoft-teams-... Zoom does not release numbers but they have seen an increase say in usage but if we look at estimated numbers: >Zoom had 12.92 million monthly active users, up 21% since the end of 2019, Chrane and Isaacs wrote, citing data from privately held Apptopia. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/26/zoom-has-added-more-users-so-far-this-year-than-in-2019-bernstein.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/26/zoom-has-added-more-users-so... Microsoft seems to have had an increase that similar to Zoom's whole user base in a week (and I don't know how much was added before that). I think people in tech circles underestimate how many large non-tech companies just followed Microsoft into the cloud and started to use Office 365. And I assume a lot don't use it that much, maybe for a meeting here and there and a few (or way too many) channels but suddenly everyone in the company is on it.
  - jburgess777 7y ago
    > Zoom does not release numbers Zoom released some numbers a couple of days ago: “To put this growth in context, as of the end of December last year, the maximum number of daily meeting participants, both free and paid, conducted on Zoom was approximately 10 million. In March this year, we reached more than 200 million daily meeting participants, both free and paid.” https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-users/ https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-u...
AznHisoka 7y ago
This seems wrong to me. Isn’t almost a third of the worlds traffic going through AWS? Think about all the video conferencing calls, streaming videos, and gaming happening now. ISP’s were almost crumbling in Europe last week. AWS is almost certainly experiencing more traffic the azure

by cc81 7y ago

txcwpalpha 7y ago

Isn't Zoom on AWS? So are Slack and Chime (the little known AWS competitor to Teams). As are parts of Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, and of course Prime Video. I don't know the exact numbers but I'm pretty sure the rise in popularity of Zoom is just as high, if not possibly higher, than Teams. Entire universities of 50k+ students started using Zoom for online classes, not to mention all of the companies that have started using it. Then you have all of the people staying at home using the streaming services, etc... my guess is that AWS has seen a huge spike in traffic just as big, if not bigger than Azure saw.

cc81 7y ago
>The software giant counted 32 million daily active users of Teams last week on March 11th, but this jumped by 12 million to 44 million daily active users yesterday. https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/19/21186452/microsoft-teams-new-features-noise-supression-user-increase-coronavirus https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/19/21186452/microsoft-teams-... Zoom does not release numbers but they have seen an increase say in usage but if we look at estimated numbers: >Zoom had 12.92 million monthly active users, up 21% since the end of 2019, Chrane and Isaacs wrote, citing data from privately held Apptopia. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/26/zoom-has-added-more-users-so-far-this-year-than-in-2019-bernstein.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/26/zoom-has-added-more-users-so... Microsoft seems to have had an increase that similar to Zoom's whole user base in a week (and I don't know how much was added before that). I think people in tech circles underestimate how many large non-tech companies just followed Microsoft into the cloud and started to use Office 365. And I assume a lot don't use it that much, maybe for a meeting here and there and a few (or way too many) channels but suddenly everyone in the company is on it.
- jburgess777 7y ago
  > Zoom does not release numbers Zoom released some numbers a couple of days ago: “To put this growth in context, as of the end of December last year, the maximum number of daily meeting participants, both free and paid, conducted on Zoom was approximately 10 million. In March this year, we reached more than 200 million daily meeting participants, both free and paid.” https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-users/ https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-u...

AznHisoka 7y ago

This seems wrong to me. Isn’t almost a third of the worlds traffic going through AWS? Think about all the video conferencing calls, streaming videos, and gaming happening now. ISP’s were almost crumbling in Europe last week. AWS is almost certainly experiencing more traffic the azure