Ellie Brown is a research analyst at 451 Research from S&P Global Energy Horizons covering quantum technologies and cloud computing. She manages the Cloud Price Index, the division’s benchmark tracking product that covers pricing for a selection of cloud infrastructure and managed services around the world. Ellie compiles and maintains a dataset collected from millions of hyperscaler SKUs and looks at trends in pricing, service additions and regional expansion plans for the major public cloud providers.
Ellie’s additional coverage areas include the developing quantum computing and quantum network sectors, with research spanning quantum-suited verticals, new quantum hardware and software developments and the intersection of quantum technology, with key themes including AI and sustainability.
Before joining S&P Global in 2022, Ellie’s work experience included product strategy/planning and go-to-market activities for SaaS and AI startups, as well as scientific research in astronomy and work as a secondary teacher.
Ellie holds a master's degree in environmental policy and management with a concentration in sustainable energy from the University of Denver, along with a bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in physics from the University of Utah.
451 Research's Cloud Price Index periodically tracks SKU changes at AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. The three made a massive 377,000 changes to their service portfolios in January, with AWS' new flexible billing rollout for its WorkSpaces Core product leading to the addition of more than 238,000 new SKUs.
451 Research's Cloud Price Index periodically tracks SKU changes at AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. The three made more than 130,000 changes to their service portfolios in December, with a slew of new SKU additions highlighting a continued focus on AI and machine learning services.
The Cloud Price Index now produces more than 500 public cloud benchmarks each quarter for 10 regions around the world, spanning compute, storage, machine learning, database, serverless and network. The new format aggregates this data into a single spreadsheet, with tools that allow clients to chart time-based and geographical trends plus to build their own baskets of cloud services.
At 2025's largest conference for super- and high-performance computing, held in St. Louis, the compute ecosystem of the future began to take shape, with shared capability and long-term potential the twin threads tying once-disparate disciplines together.
Supercomputing has started becoming more mainstream, mostly driven by recent AI advances. The massive amounts of computational power that once were reserved for the most complex problems in high-performance computing are now commonplace in the world of AI. 451 analyst Gabriella Brown returns to the podcast to discuss complex problems, quantum computing and photonics with host Eric Hanselman.
451 Research's Cloud Price Index periodically tracks SKU changes at AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. The three made nearly 120,000 changes to their service portfolios in November, with the month showcasing a dearth of SKU removals and an abundance of additions.
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