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The cloud computing providers comparison delivers detailed information about each cloud computing company. It breaks down each cloud computing provider offer into 130+ distinct features that might be relevant to your cloud computing provider selection process (such as SLA, security, and certifications - SSAE 16, HIPPA, FISMA, and PCI). The cloud computing providers comparison gathers everything into a single resource.
Providers
 M5 Cloud Hosting Kamatera eApps StratoGen Cloudware ElasticHosts Dimension Data Storm on Demand e24cloud Microsoft Azure Exoscale AWS (Amazon Web Services) CloudSigma Hyve Google Cloud Platform ZettaGrid
Cloud Features & Management
Hourly Pay-As-You-Go
yes
yes
no
yes
no
with burst pricing
yes
yes
no
yes
per minute
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
no
Cloud Management Software
CloudStack
proprietary
OnApp
VMware vCloud Director
OnApp
proprietary
proprietary
proprietary
proprietary
proprietary
CloudStack
proprietary
proprietary
proprietary
VMware vCloud Director
One Account For All Locations
yes
yes
yes
no
one location only
yes
Coming soon
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
Web Interface
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Mobile App
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
Dedicated app for iOS and Android
yes
no
no
yes
no
no
no
Languages
English, Japanese, Chinese (simplified), Russian, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Korean, Spanish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Arabic; support in English
English
English
English
English, Bulgarian
English
English
English
English, Polish, German
English
English
English
English, Bulgarian, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
English, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
English
Terminal access
yes
no
yes
yes
no
VNC
yes
no
yes
yes
no
yes
no
VNC
yes
yes
yes
API
yes
yes
no
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
AWS-compatible API
Object storage compatible with AWS S3.
partial
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
no
yes
no
no
no
OpenStack-compatible API
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
Command line
yes
no
no
yes
no
yes
no
no
With AWS command line tools
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
Auto-scaling
yes
no
no
no
no
Vertical with Elastic Containers
yes
no
no
Vertical
yes
horizontal
yes
no
horizontal
yes
no
horizontal
yes
no
Vertical scaling without reboot
no
no
no
yes
no
with Elastic Containers
yes
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
yes
Image from cloud server
yes
yes
no
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
in development
no
yes
yes
yes
Custom Image Catalogue via vCloud Diretor
yes
Upload cloud server image
yes
no
no
OVF
yes
no
yes
VM Ware OVF
yes
no
no
yes
in development
no
VM Import/Export Tools
yes
yes
yes
Can be as service request AUD 110
no
Download cloud server image
yes
no
no
yes
no
yes
yes
no
no
yes
in development
no
VM Import/Export Tools
yes
yes
yes
yes
Mount CD/DVD ISO
yes
yes
Only by request to [email protected]
partial
yes
no
yes
no
yes
no
no
no
yes
no
yes
Cloud Servers
Hypervisor
Xen
Xen
WMware
KVM
KVM
VMware
Xen
KVM
Hyper-V
KVM
Xen
KVM
VMware
KVM
VMware
RAM
2 GB - 120 GB
1 GB - 256 GB
512 MB - 32 GB
4 MB - 96 GB
512 MB - 16 GB
0.25 GB - 64 GB
1 GB - 128 GB
1 GB - 256 GB
512 MB - 32 GB
448 GB available only in G family instances, which are available only in few regions.
768 MB - 448 GB
512 MB - 225 GB
630 MB - 3904 GB
Possible to go up to 512 GB on request. Limit depends also on region.
512 MB - 128 GB
1 GB - 64 GB
0.6 GB - 3.75 TB
256 MB - 256 GB
CPU cores
1 - 24
1 - 64
1 - 16
1 - 16
1 - 16
1 - 16
1 - 16
1 - 64
1 - 16
32 cores available only in G family instances, which are available only in West US region.
1 - 16
(32 in West US)
1 - 48
1 - 128
Max 80 GHz
1 - 60
1 - 8
1 - 160
1 - 20
Storage
5 GB - 16 TB
20 GB - 20 TB
8 GB - 750 GB
1 GB - 10 TB
10 GB - 500 GB
1 GB - 14.5 TB
10 GB - 2.5 TB
35 GB - 15 TB
40 GB - 5 TB
Maximum storage size depends on server type, in most cases 2 TB per CPU core.
1 GB - 32 TB
10 GB - 8000 GB
Instance: 160 GB - 48 TB
EBS: 1 GB - 20 TB
1 GB - 84 TB
10 GB - 10 TB
1 GB - 64 TB
500GB - 80TB
Persistent instance storage
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
Unless using SSD local storage.
yes
yes
Custom RAM & CPU ratio
no
yes
But CPU - RAM ratio needs to be in certain range.
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
no
no
no
yes
yes
no
yes
Independent storage size
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Storage can be extended.
no
yes
Each instance type has preallocated storage, which can be then extended. Maximum storage reaches 2 TB per CPU core.
partial
UI provides typical disk sizes by default, but it can be customized in advanced settings or via API.
yes
Can be extended or replaced by EBS.
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
Burstable CPU
yes
yes
yes
CPU can burst up to 4x if capacity is available.
yes
yes
no
no
no
no
no
With exception of t1 and t2 instance types
partial
yes
no
only f1-micro
no
no
GPU instances
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
yes
yes
yes
no
no
yes
no
SSD Storage Available
Hybrid
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
no
D instance family only.
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
IO based storage tiering
yes
Resource usage monitoring (CPU, RAM, disc, network, ...)
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
Including application metrics for typical open source software.
yes
Via VMware vSphere
yes
Turned off Cost
storage and IP
storage and IP
full
storage
full
storage only
full
full
storage only
full
storage
EBS storage if used, Elastic IP if used
storage only
storage only
full
Images & Licenses
Preinstalled cloud server images
14
44
35
20
28
32
10
24
102
10
12000+
250
Including "Click to Deploy software packages"
28
112
Windows license
Windows 2008 R2 Standard, Windows 2012 Standard
yes
7
8.1
10
Server 2008 R2 Web,Standard,Enterprise,Datacenter
2012 R2 Standard,Datacenter
2016 Standard,Datacenter
yes
2008 Enterprise, 2008 R2 Enterprise, 2012 Standard
yes
2008 Standard, Data Center 2012 Essentials, Standard, Data Center 2003 Terminal Server
yes
2012 STD R2
yes
2008 R2 Web, Standard, Enterprise
2012 Standard
Remote Desktop Services SALs
yes
2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise 2008 Standard, Enterprise 2003 Standard, Enterprise
yes
2008 R2
yes
2008 R2 Standard, 2012
yes
Server 2008 R2 SP1
Server 2012 Datacenter
Server 2012 R2 Datacenter
Server Essentials Experience
HPC Pack 2012 R2
Server Technical Preview/br/>
yes
2008 R2
2012
2012 R2
yes
yes
2016 Datacenter, Standard
2012 Datacenter, R2 Datacenter, Standard
2008 Enterprise, Standard 2003 Standard
yes
yes
2008 R2
yes
2016, 2008, 2012
yes
SQL Server license
SQL Server Standard, Web, Enterprise
yes
no
2008 R2 Standard 64bit, 2008 R2 Web 64bit, 2012 R2 Standard 64bit, 2012 R2 Web 64bit
yes
Web Standard, Enterprise
yes
on request
2008 Web, Standard, Enterprise
2012 Standard
yes
2008 R2 STD, ENT 2012 R2 STD, ENT
yes
no
no
SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 Std, Web, Enterprise
SQL Server 2008 R2 SP3 Std, Web, Enterprise
SQL Server 2012 SP1 Std, Web, Enterprise
SQL Server 2014 Std, Web, Enterprise
yes
yes
yes
2016 Enterprise, Standard, Web
2012 Enterprise, Standard, Web
2008 R2 Web, Standard
yes
no
Standard, Enterprise, Web
yes
RedHat Linux license
no
no
no
yes
no
no
Free
yes
no
no
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
6,7
yes
Other licenses
cPanel
yes
no
ISPmanager is offered free of charge to customers
cPanel, Plesk, ISPmanager
Exchange, BizTalk, Sharepoint, Office, Project, Visio
yes
no
no
SharePoint 2010
yes
no
no
MS Sharepoint, MS BizTalk Server, MS Team Foundation Server, MS Dynamics, Oracle, SUSE
yes
no
Oracle, ...
no
SUSE
yes
Citrix, Veeam, Zerto, Trend, Turnkey
yes
Transfer MS License
no
no
no
yes
no
no
When Windows is installed from ISO CD.
yes
no
no
yes
yes
Microsoft License mobility supported.
yes
Transfer
Transfer or bandwidth
transfer
transfer
transfer
bandwidth
bandwidth
transfer
transfer
transfer
transfer
transfer
transfer
transfer
transfer
transfer
transfer
transfer
Free transfer in
yes
yes
2 TB
yes
10 Mbps
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
no
Free transfer included
no
Only for monthly billing
5 TB per cloud server
2 TB IN and 2 TB OUT
1 Gbps
10 Mbps
1 TB (Dallas and Miami)
no
no
50 GB per account
5 GB
1 TB per cloud server
no
If $10 per month is spent.
5 TB per account
500 GB per server
yes
no
no
Pay-as-you-go
yes
yes
no
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Need to prepay, but any size and no time limits
yes
yes
no
Transfer packages
no
no
yes
no
no
Lower price if you commit in advance.
yes
Resource bundles including transfer.
no
yes
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
yes
No Transfer Limit
yes
yes
2 TB IN and 2 TB OUT
no
1 Gbps
yes
100 Mbps
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
Transfer per server or account
account
account
cloud server
Is 1 Gbps per VM or ACCOUNT?
cloud server
account
account
account
account
account
per account
account
account
cloud server
account
cloud server or virtual data centre
Free private transfer
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Only within a zone.
yes
yes
Within an availability zone.
yes
yes
Free transfer to dedicated/collocation
yes
N/A
no
no
no
Hosted in beyond.pl
yes
no
no
no
yes
no
yes
Networking
Free IP
no
no
no
1 per cloud server
yes
yes
1 dynamic per cloud server
yes
2 - 8 per cloud network
yes
yes
1 per cloud server
yes
5 per account
yes
1 per cloud server, either dynamic or fixed but paid if cloud server is off.
yes
1 dynamic per server
yes
2 per account
yes
1 IP per server while it is running
yes
yes
Mappable IP
yes
no
no
yes
no
First server attached, additional can be mapped
yes
yes
no
no
yes
additional EIP addresses can be mapped to one or more servers
yes
Elastic IP
yes
With purchased IP
yes
yes
yes
Multiple IP per cloud server
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Max 8 per server
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
Only private and public
no
Service request with justification
yes
IP cost
$0.005 per hour
$1 per month
$1 per month
free
2.5 BGN / month
$3 per month
Maximum 3x number of cloud servers
$0.0027 per hour
$5
€0.005 per hour
$0.004 per hour
0.0128 EUR / hour
One free per cloud server if running.
$0.005 / hour
$2.5
1 GBP
$0.01 per hour
5.50
IPv6
no
no
no
yes
no
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
no
no
yes
Private IP
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
Manage VLANs
Virtual Private Cloud
yes
yes
no
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
Virtual Private Cloud
yes
yes
yes
yes
Load balancing service
yes
no
Not a service, but there is pre-configured image with HAProxy & Pacemaker with hot standby sharing the same IP for failover.
partial
yes
no
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
no
yes
yes
Included with Basic and Advanced NSX firewalls
yes
Load balancing type
software
HAProxy
software
software
no
software
software
DNS
no
software
no
software
software
yes
Security
Encrypted storage
no
no
no
no
no
yes
yes
no
no
no
no
no
yes
All data written to disks is encrypted by default.
yes
yes
VLAN per customer
If in "Virtual Private Cloud" or "Isolated"
yes
yes
no
yes
Via support request
yes
Can be purchased
no
yes
no
yes
If in Virtual Private Cloud
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Dedicated & cloud servers in single VLAN
May require setup cost
yes
N/A
no
yes
Via support request
yes
no
no
no
no
Private networks available
yes
no
Dedicated servers available via sales; offer not available on website.
yes
no
yes
VPN
via support
yes
no
yes
yes
Via support request
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
Only to created virtual networks.
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Firewall
Virtual Private Cloud and Isolated networks only
yes
no
yes
yes
no
yes
hardware, statefull, IDS
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
$0.05 / hour
yes
yes
yes
yes
Via vCloud Director
yes
ISO/IEC 27001
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
London Maidenhead, UK and Hong Kong
partial
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
SSAE 16 (former SAS 70 Type II)
yes
no
yes
yes
no
Only USA locations
partial
SOC 1 USA data centers
yes
yes
no
SOC 1, SOC 2 and SOC 3
yes
yes
yes
yes
SOC2 and SOC3
yes
no
HIPAA Compilant
yes
yes
no
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
FISMA Compilant
yes
no
yes
no
no
yes
yes
US location only
yes
yes
no
PCI DSS
yes
no
yes
yes
no
USA data centers
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Safe Harbor / EU Directive 95/46/EC
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
Locations
North America
San Diego, CA, USA
yes
New York, USA
Santa Clara, USA
Texas, USA
yes
Atlanta, GA, USA Richmond, VA, USA
yes
New Jersey, USA
Denver, USA
yes
no
Dallas, TX, USA
Miami, FL, USA
San Jose, CA, USA
Los Angeles, CA, USA
San Antonio, TX, USA
Toronto, Canada
yes
USA East & West
yes
Lansing, MI, USA Phoenix, AZ, USA
yes
no
Central US, Iowa
East US, Virginia
North Central US, Illinois
South Central US, Texas
West US, California
Toronto, Canada
Quebec City, Canada
yes
no
Northern Virginia, USA (East) Northern California, USA (West) Oregon, USA (West)
yes
San Jose, California, USA
Washington D.C., USA
Miami, Florida, USA
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
yes
Somerset, NJ, USA San Jose, CA, USA
yes
Moncks Corner, South Carolina, USA (East)
Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA (Central)
The Dalles, Oregon, USA (West)
Ashburn, Nort Virginia, USA (East)
Montreal, Canada
yes
no
South America
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
Brazil, Sao Paulo State
yes
no
São Paulo, Brazil
yes
no
no
São Paulo, Brasil
yes
no
Europe
no
Amsterdam, Netherlands
London, UK
yes
no
London, UK
yes
Sofia, Bulgaria
yes
London Maidenhead, UK
London Portsmouth, UK
Amsterdam, Netherlands
yes
yes
no
Poznań & Warsaw Poland
yes
Ireland
Netherlands
yes
Switzerland, Austria, Germany
yes
Ireland
yes
Zurich, Switzerland (2 data centers)
Warsaw, Poland
Frankfurt, Germany
yes
London, UK
yes
St. Ghislain, Belgium, EU (West)
London, UK, EU (West)
Frankfurt, Germany, EU (West)
Eemshaven, Netherlands, EU (West)
yes
no
Asia
no
Hong Kong, China
Petach Tikva, Israel
Jerusalem, Israel
Rosh Haayin, Israel
Tel Aviv, Israel
yes
no
Kuala Lumpur, Malesia
yes
no
Hong Kong, China
yes
yes
no
no
East Asia, Hong Kong
Southeast Asia, Singapore
Japan East, Saitama Prefecture
Japan West, Osaka Prefecture
yes
no
Singapore Tokyo, Japan
yes
Manila, Philippines
yes
Hong Kong, China Shanghai, China
yes
Mumbai, India (Asia South)
Changhua County, Taiwan (Asia East)
Tokyo, Japan (Asia North East)
Jurong West, Singapore (Asia South East)
yes
Jakarta, Indonesia
yes
Australia
no
no
no
no
no
Sydney
yes
yes
no
no
Australia East, New South Wales
Australia Southeast, Victoria
yes
no
Sydney, Australia
yes
Perth, Melbourne
yes
no
Sydney, Australia
yes
Sydney, Melbourne, Perth
yes
Africa
no
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
Reliability & Failover
SLA level
99.95%
99.9%
3% TCP/IP loss rate
30 ms latency
100%
100%
99.9%
100%
Includes network latency < 1 ms
100%
Africa: 99.95%
Network & power
100%
99.98%
For 2+ VMs running in the same "Availability Set".
99.95%
99.95%
99.995%
100%
100%
99.95%
99.99%
SLA credit
5% for first 5 min. and every subsequent 30 min. Up to 100%.
9,600%
1 day per hour
10,000% up to one month bill
5% monthly for up to 1h, 100% monthly for 11h+
1,000% of unavailable time
200% of hourly service fee for each hour
<99.9% - 10%
<99% - 25%
99.95% - 98.3%: 50% monthly fee
< 98.3%: 100% monthly fee
10% of annual bill
5,000% up to last monthly bill
10% - 50%
20-45% of monthly bill
SLA exceptions
scheduled maintenance
maitenance, customer generated failure, exploited server
15+ min., max equiv. of 30 days
<15 min., maintenance
scheduled or emergency maintenance
scheduled maintenance, attracts
planned maintenance
out of Microsoft control
planned maintenance
5 min.
maitenance
scheduled maintenance
maitenance, periods < 5 min.
Scheduled Maintenance, Force Majure
Multiple zones in region
yes
no
yes
yes
no
Only US west and UK
partial
yes
Only US Central (Lansing, MI)
yes
yes
Some geographic regions have multiple "regions" in Azure. There is also a concept of "fault domain", has separate power source and different network switch. Azure automatically allocates instances in the same role or "availability set" into different fault domains.
partial
Geneva and Zurich
yes
2 - 5 per region
yes
In Zurich (Switzerland, Europe)
partial
yes
yes
Tier 3+ DC
yes
yes
yes
Tier 3:
Miami, FL, USA
Sydney, Australia
London Portsmouth, UK
Amsterdam, NL
Hong Kong

Tier 2:
London Maidenhead, UK
Dallas, TX, USA
Toronto, Canada
Los Angeles, CA, USA
San Jose, CA, USA
partial
USA data centers
yes
Only US Central (Lansing, MI)
partial
yes
yes
US location tier 4
yes
yes
NextDC M1 Melbourne, Vocus DC1 Sydney, NextDC B1 Brisbane, Amcom DC3 Perth, Equinix SY4 Sydney
yes
Automatic failover to other server
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
Live migration allows moving running instances to another server without downtime - host maintenance doesn't affect cloud server availability.
yes
yes
Auto Recovery service applies only to C3, C4, M3, R3, and T2 instance types running in the US East (Northern Virginia) region. The instances must be running within a VPC, must use EBS-backed storage, but cannot be Dedicated Instances.
partial
no
VMware HA and DRS
yes
Live migration allows moving running instances to another server without downtime - host maintenance doesn't affect cloud server availability.
yes
With warm copy in different zone
yes
Storage attachment
network
network
server
server
server
no
network
local
Instance storage: server EBS: network
server
fiber channel
network & local
network
RAID level
ZFS pool of mirrors with ZIL and L2ARC
Raid DP
no
RAID 1
Bare Metal: none, RAID 1, 10
RAID 6
10
RAID 6
RAID 5
Backup - snapshot
yes
yes
no
yes
no
with Elastic Containers
partial
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
t
yes
yes
Backup - storage
yes
no
yes
Veam
yes
yes
no
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
S3 or Glacier
yes
no
yes
yes
Services
Cloud Files service
Compatible with AWS S3.
yes
no
no
no
no
no
Only in USA region.
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
S3 (Simple Storage Service)
yes
no
no
yes
VAST Object Storage
yes
CDN service
no
no
yes
no
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
Cloud Front
yes
no
yes
In beta.
yes
no
DNS service
no
no
yes
no
no
no
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
Route 53
yes
no
yes
yes
no
NoSQL service
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
DynamoDB, Redshift, SimpleDB
yes
no
no
yes
no
SQL service
no
no
yes
no
no
no
as managed service
yes
no
no
yes
MySQL
yes
RDS (Simple Storage Service) - MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle
yes
no
no
yes
no
Memcache service
no
no
yes
no
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
ElastiCache
yes
no
no
yes
no
Dedicated servers
yes
no
no
yes
yes
no
yes
As LiquidWeb
yes
In beyond.pl
yes
no
yes
no
Dedicated servers available via sales; offer not available on website.
yes
yes
no
no
Collocation
yes
no
no
yes
yes
no
yes
As LiquidWeb
yes
In beyond.pl
yes
no
yes
no
yes
no
no
yes
Support
Response Time
In urgent cases, not guaranteed.
15 min.
SLA:
  • critical request: 4 hours to resolve, 1 hour assigned to a technican
  • non-critical: assigned & resolved in 8 hours
Average: 1 hour for urgent issues
Named technical contact
Extended 24/7: 30 min.
Standard 24/7: 1 hour
Extended 9/5: 1 hour
Standard 9/5: 2 hours
SLA:
Developer: 8h
Standard: 2h
Professional: 1h
Premier: 15 min
15 min. incidents 1 hour standard requests
Basic: free
Developer: $49/month
Business: tiered 10% - 3%, min. $100
Enterprise: tiered 10% - 3%, min. $15,00
Basic: -
Developer: 12 hours
Business: 1 hour
Enterprise: 15 min.
Average (not in SLA):
1 min chat support
1 h ticket support
15 min. Platinum Plan
1 hour Gold Plan
4 hours Silver Plan
none for Bronze Plan
SLA:
- 60 minutes for severity 1 incidents
- 8 hours standard requests
24x7
yes
yes
yes
yes
With minimum Standard 24/7 support package.
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
all paid plans
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Platinum Plan - high priority issues
Gold Plan - Outages only
yes
yes
Free
yes
yes
Paid level provides preferential service over support requests of equal severity, priority phone number which auto-escalates to management.
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
infrastructure level
yes
yes
included level covers only billing issues
no
yes
Basic level does not include any contact possibilities
no
yes
yes
Bronze plan - billing issues only, otherwise community and knowledge center
yes
yes
Phone
After ticket opened on-line
yes
yes
Also Skype
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
Standard (3 per month), Professional and Premier levels
yes
no
Business, Enterprise levels
yes
Platinum support level
yes
yes
Gold and Platinum plans
yes
yes
Chat
yes
yes
yes
no
no
no
yes
no
no
no
Business, Enterprise levels
yes
yes
no
no
Ticket system or email
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Only ticket system
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
Developer, Business, Enterprise levels
yes
yes
yes
Paid plans only
yes
yes
Forum
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
no
yes
no
Knowledge base
yes
no
yes
FAQ
yes
FAQ and tutorials
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
FAQ
yes
Managed services
yes
yes
no
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
no
Enterprise level
yes
no
yes
no
no
Billing
Cloud server biling period
hourly
hour
month
hour
month
15 min
hour
hour
yes
minute
minute
second (1 minute minimum)
5 minutes
month
second (1 minute minimum)
month
No monthly precharge
yes
yes
no
no
no
For burst (hourly) use above $0.20 / hour you must have sufficient balance to cover 14 days of the excess use at the point that you add disk space or start a server.
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
Billing per cloud server or account
account
cloud server
cloud server
cloud server
cloud server
account
server
cloud server
cloud server
cloud server
account
cloud server
account
server
see sustained usage discounts
account
yes
License billing period
hour
hour
month
month
month
month
hour
hour
hour
minute
hour
Eventhough VMs are billed to a second, licenses are billed per hour.
hour
5 minutes
month
second (1 minute minimum)
month
Prepaid
no
no
yes
post-paid
no
yes
yes
no
no
yes
no
also post-paid
yes
no
credit limit upon request
yes
no
yes
Currency
USD
USD
USD
Depends on location
USD, GBP
BGN
Depending on the location
USD, GBP, EUR
USD
USD
USD, EUR, PLN
USD, EUR, CAD, GBP, DKK, NOK, SEK, CHF, JPY, AUD, NZD, KWR, RUB, ZAR, TRY, SAR, ARS, BRL, HKD, INR, MXN, IDR, TWD, MYR
USD, EUR, CHF
USD
USD, EUR, GBP, CHF, PHP, AUD, PLN, BRL, INR, SAR, IRR
GBP
USD
AUD
Credit card
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
PayPal
For dedicated servers only
partial
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
no
yes
no
yes
no
yes
no
yes
Wire transfer
Large payments only
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
no
yes
no
yes
no
yes
no
yes
Resource plans
With Contract
yes
no
no
yes
no
no
yes
no
no
no
no
no
no
yes
yes
Longer subscription
With Contract
yes
no
4% for Quarter, 7% for Bi-annual, 9% for Year
yes
yes
yes
month and year
yes
no
no
no
no
no
no
up to 3 years
yes
no
yes
Reservation
With Contract
yes
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
no
no
Volume Discounts
With Contract or Reseller Agreement
yes
no
no
yes
no
yes
Only transfer and cloud files storage
yes
no
Bonuses for larger prepaid charges - up to 100%
yes
Enterprise Agreement
yes
no
In reserved instances and transfer
yes
yes
no
yes
Trial & Specials
Free trial
no
30 day
yes
no
7 days
yes
7 days
yes
5 days
yes
14 days or $200
yes
no
20 PLN (~ $5) for Cloudorado users
yes
$200
yes
5 CHF, 4 EUR, 5 USD
yes
no
7 days
yes
no
$300 for one year
yes
30 days for Australian customers only
yes
Money back guarantee
no
no
yes
30 days
yes
no
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
no
no
no
7 Days
yes
Free entry level service
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
MSDN subscribers get $50-$150 credits per month
yes
no
Free Tier for one year
yes
Free tier of 1GB RAM, 50GB SSD & 5TB data transfer per month. Accounts spending over $10 per month automatically qualify.
yes
no
Always Free limited access to many common services.
yes
no
Third-Party Tools Support
Rightscale
yes
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
yes
no
no
yes
no
Scalr
yes
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
yes
no
no
yes
no
Provider Information
Name
M5 Hosting, Inc.
Kamatera Inc.
eApps Hosting
Access Alto
Cloudware.bg
ElasticHosts Ltd
Dimension Data
Liquid Web
Beyond.pl Sp z o. o.
Microsoft
Exoscale
Amazon
CloudSigma
Hyve Managed Hosting
Google Inc.
Zettagrid Pty Ltd
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20A Andrey Saharov Blvd.
Studio 2.01 Power Road Studios 114 Power Road Chiswick London W4 5PY United Kingdom
5201 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054
4210 S. Creyts Rd, Lansing, MI 48917-9526, US
ul. Palacza 113, 60-273 Poznań, Poland
1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA
Route de Marcolet 39 CH - 1023 Crissier Switzerland
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Badenerstrasse 549 8048 Zurich Switzerland
Richmond House, 105 High Street, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 1DD, United Kingdom
Googleplex, Mountain View, California, USA
Level 36 1 Farrer Place Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia
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