Cloud providers overview

An overview of all the services provided from the different cloud providers. Please note that most of these services are now supported in PlanForCloud.

Compute	Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	Cloud Servers	Compute Engine	Virtual Machines Cloud Services (Web and Worker Roles)	CloudLayer Computing	Cloud Compute
Relational Database	Relational Database Service (RDS)	Cloud Databases	Cloud SQL	SQL Server	-	-
NoSQL Databases	DynamoDB	-	BigQuery	Table Storage	-	-
Block Storage	Elastic Block Store (EBS)	Cloud Block Storage	Persistent Disk	Drive	-	Block Storage
Object Storage	Simple Storage Service (S3)	Cloud Files	Cloud Storage	BLOB Storage	CloudLayer Object Storage	Object Storage
Archival Storage	Glacier	-	-	-	-	-
Support	Tech Support	Tech Support	Tech Support	Tech Support	Tech Support	Tech Support
Live Status	Amazon Status	Rackspace Status	-	Azure Status	SoftLayer Status	-

Compute Services

	Amazon	Rackspace	Google	Windows Azure	SoftLayer	HP
Name	EC2	Cloud Servers	Compute Engine	Virtual Machines	CloudLayer Computing	Cloud Compute
Lowest Spec	Micro Instance (t1.micro) 2×1GHz CPU,613MB RAM	512 MB 3×CPU, 512MB RAM, 20GB HDD	n1-standard-1-d 3×1.1GHz CPU, 3.8GB RAM, 420GB HDD	Extra Small 1×1GHz CPU, 768MB RAM, 20GB HDD	1 Core 1×1GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 25GB HDD	Extra Small 1×CPU, 1GB RAM, 30GB HDD
Highest Spec	High Memory Cluster Eight Extra Large Instance (cr1.8xlarge) 88×1GHz CPU, 244GB RAM	30 GB 8×CPU, 30GB RAM, 1.2TB HDD	n1-highmem-8 22×1.1GHz CPU, 52GB RAM, Diskless	Extra Large 8×1.6GHz CPU, 14GB RAM, 1890GB HDD	16 Core 16×2GHz CPU, 16GB RAM, 100GB HDD	Double Extra Large 32×CPU, 32GB RAM, 960GB HDD
Operating Systems	Linux: Amazon Linux AMI, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Ubuntu Enterprise Linux: Red Hat, Oracle, SUSE Windows Server	Linux Enterprise Linux: Red Hat Windows Server: Windows + SQL Web, Windows + SQL Standard	Linux	Linux Windows Server	Linux: CloudLinux, Centos, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu Enterprise Linux: Red Hat Windows Server	Linux Windows Server
Purchase Options	On-Demand Reserved 1-Year: Light, Medium and Heavy Utilization Reserved 3-Year: Light, Medium and Heavy Utilization Spot	On-Demand	On-Demand	On-Demand Reserved 6-Months Pay monthly and Prepay Reserved 1-Year Pay monthly and Prepay	On-Demand	On-Demand

Relational Database Services

	Amazon	Rackspace	Google	Windows Azure	SoftLayer	HP
Name	RDS	Cloud Databases	Cloud SQL	SQL Server	-	-
Lowest Spec	Micro Instance (db.t1.micro) 613MB RAM, 2×1GHz CPU	512 MB 512MB RAM	D1 512MB RAM	-	-	-
Highest Spec	High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large DB Instance (d2.m2.4xlarge) 68.4GB RAM, 8×1GHz CPU	4 GB 4GB RAM	D32 32GB RAM	-	-	-
Storage Size Limits	up to 1TB [1]	up to 50GB [2]	up to 100GB [3]	up to 5GB for Web Edition up to 150GB for Business Edition [4]	-	-
Software	MySQL Oracle SQL Server	MySQL Oracle SQL Server	MySQL	SQL Server	-	-
Purchase Options	On-Demand Reserved 1-Year: Light, Medium and Heavy Utilization Reserved 3-Year: Light, Medium and Heavy Utilization Spot	On-Demand	On-Demand	On-Demand Reserved 6-Months Pay monthly and Prepay Reserved 1-Year Pay monthly and Prepay	-	-

NoSQL Database Services

	Amazon	Rackspace	Google	Windows Azure	SoftLayer	HP
Name	DynamoDB	-	BigQuery	Table Storage	-	-
Storage Size Limits	No Limit [5]	-	2TB [6]	100TB per storage account, 5 storage accounts per subscription. [7]	-	-
Throughput limits	up to 10,000 read/writes per second (possible to increase by contacting Amazon) [8]	-	up to 20,000 Queries Per Day (possible to increase by contacting Google)[6]	-	-	-

Block Storage Services

	Amazon	Rackspace	Google	Windows Azure	SoftLayer	HP
Name	EBS	Cloud Block Storage	Persistent Disk	Drive	-	Block Storage
Storage Size Limits	1GB - 1TB [9]	100GB - 1TB [10]	1GB +	16MB - 1TB [11]	-	1GB - 2TB [12]
IO Performance	Standard: around 100 IOPS Provisioned IOPS: up to 2000 IOPS [9]	Standard: around 500 - 1500 IOPS SSD: around 6000 - 7000 IOPS [10]	-	-	-	-

Object Storage Services

	Amazon	Rackspace	Google	Windows Azure	SoftLayer	HP
Name	S3	Cloud Files	Cloud Storage	BLOB Storage	CloudLayer Object Storage	Object Storage
Storage Size Limits	No limit	No limit	No limit	100TB per storage account. 5 storage accounts per subscription. [7]	No limit	No limit
Maximum Upload Size	5TB (5GB segments) [13]	No limit (5GB segments) [14]	5TB (must complete uploading within in a week) [15]	Block Blobs: 200GB Page Blobs: 1TB [16]	5GB [17]	No limit (5GB segments) [18]

Archive Storage Services

	Amazon Glacier	Rackspace	Google	Windows Azure	SoftLayer	HP
Name	Glacier	-	-	-	-	-
Free retrieval limits	up to 5% per month (calculated daily) [19]	-	-	-	-	-

Support Services

	Amazon	Rackspace	Google	Windows Azure	SoftLayer	HP
Ticket System	Developer Support & above	Included	Silver Support & above	Developer Support & above	Included	Included
Phone	Business Support & above	Included	Gold Support & above	Standard Support & above	Included	Included
Email	Developer Support & above	Included	Silver Support & above	Developer Support & above	Included	Included
Response Time	Developer - 12 Hours Business - 1 Hour Enterprise - 15 Minutes	20 Minutes	Silver - 4 Hours Gold - 1 Hour Platinum - 1 Hour	Developer - 8 Hours Standard - 2 Hours Professional - 1 Hour Premier - 15 Minutes	20 Minutes	-
Other Notes	Basic support provides documentation and community forums. There are also other specific features which come with support, refer to Amazon Support.	Rackspace also offer 'Managed cloud', an extra layer of support which provides monitoring, operating system and application infrastructure layer support.	Bronze support provides documentation, community forums and billing support. There are also other specific features which come with support, refer to Google Support.	Included support provides documentation, community forums and billing support. There are also other specific features which come with support, refer to Azure Support.	-	Included support provides knowledge base, community forums and live chat
Monthly Cost	Basic - Free Developer - $49 Business - Greater of $100 or 10% of monthly usage up to $10K + 7% up to $80K + 5% up to $250K + 3% above $250K Enterprise - Greater of $15,000 or 10% of monthly usage up to $150K + 7% up to $500K + 5% up to $1M + 3% above $1M	Included - Free	Bronze - Free Silver - $150 Gold - Greater of $400 or 9% of monthly up to $10K + 7% up to $50K + 5% up to $200K + 3% above $200K Platinum - Contact Sales	Included - Free Developer - $29 Standard - $300 Professional - $1,000 Premier - Contact Sales	Included - Free	Included - Free
References	Amazon support	Rackspace support	Google support	Azure support	SoftLayer support	HP support

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