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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
 Kamatera M5 Cloud Hosting Storm on Demand ElasticHosts CloudSigma Google Cloud Platform Cloudware AWS (Amazon Web Services) e24cloud Dimension Data Exoscale ZettaGrid eApps Microsoft Azure Hyve StratoGen
Cloud Features & Management
Hourly Pay-As-You-Go
yes
yes
no
with burst pricing
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
no
per minute
yes
no
yes
Cloud Management Software
proprietary
CloudStack
proprietary
proprietary
proprietary
proprietary
OnApp
proprietary
proprietary
proprietary
CloudStack
VMware vCloud Director
OnApp
proprietary
VMware vCloud Director
One Account For All Locations
yes
yes
yes
Coming soon
no
no
yes
one location only
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
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
yes
Dedicated app for iOS and Android
yes
no
no
no
no
no
no
Languages
English
English, Japanese, Chinese (simplified), Russian, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Korean, Spanish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Arabic; support in 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, Bulgarian
English
English, Polish, German
English
English
English
English
English
English
Terminal access
no
yes
yes
VNC
yes
VNC
yes
yes
no
no
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
API
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
AWS-compatible API
no
Object storage compatible with AWS S3.
partial
no
no
no
no
no
yes
yes
no
no
no
no
no
no
OpenStack-compatible API
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
Command line
no
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
With AWS command line tools
yes
no
yes
no
no
yes
yes
Auto-scaling
no
yes
no
Vertical with Elastic Containers
yes
no
horizontal
yes
no
horizontal
yes
Vertical
yes
no
no
no
no
horizontal
yes
no
Vertical scaling without reboot
no
no
no
with Elastic Containers
yes
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
no
yes
yes
Image from cloud server
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
in development
no
Custom Image Catalogue via vCloud Diretor
yes
no
yes
yes
Upload cloud server image
no
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
no
VM Import/Export Tools
yes
no
VM Ware OVF
yes
in development
no
Can be as service request AUD 110
no
no
yes
OVF
yes
Download cloud server image
no
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
no
VM Import/Export Tools
yes
no
yes
in development
no
yes
no
yes
yes
Mount CD/DVD ISO
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
no
no
no
yes
no
yes
Only by request to [email protected]
partial
no
yes
Cloud Servers
Hypervisor
Xen
Xen
KVM
KVM
KVM
KVM
Xen
KVM
VMware
KVM
VMware
Xen
Hyper-V
VMware
WMware
RAM
1 GB - 256 GB
2 GB - 120 GB
1 GB - 256 GB
0.25 GB - 64 GB
Possible to go up to 512 GB on request. Limit depends also on region.
512 MB - 128 GB
0.6 GB - 3.75 TB
512 MB - 16 GB
630 MB - 3904 GB
512 MB - 32 GB
1 GB - 128 GB
512 MB - 225 GB
256 MB - 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
1 GB - 64 GB
4 MB - 96 GB
CPU cores
1 - 64
1 - 24
1 - 64
1 - 16
Max 80 GHz
1 - 60
1 - 160
1 - 16
1 - 128
1 - 16
1 - 16
1 - 48
1 - 20
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 - 8
1 - 16
Storage
20 GB - 20 TB
5 GB - 16 TB
35 GB - 15 TB
1 GB - 14.5 TB
1 GB - 84 TB
1 GB - 64 TB
10 GB - 500 GB
Instance: 160 GB - 48 TB
EBS: 1 GB - 20 TB
40 GB - 5 TB
10 GB - 2.5 TB
10 GB - 8000 GB
500GB - 80TB
8 GB - 750 GB
Maximum storage size depends on server type, in most cases 2 TB per CPU core.
1 GB - 32 TB
10 GB - 10 TB
1 GB - 10 TB
Persistent instance storage
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Unless using SSD local storage.
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Custom RAM & CPU ratio
yes
no
no
yes
yes
no
yes
no
yes
yes
no
yes
But CPU - RAM ratio needs to be in certain range.
yes
no
yes
yes
Independent storage size
yes
yes
Storage can be extended.
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
Can be extended or replaced by EBS.
no
yes
yes
UI provides typical disk sizes by default, but it can be customized in advanced settings or via API.
yes
yes
yes
Each instance type has preallocated storage, which can be then extended. Maximum storage reaches 2 TB per CPU core.
partial
yes
yes
Burstable CPU
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
only f1-micro
no
CPU can burst up to 4x if capacity is available.
yes
With exception of t1 and t2 instance types
partial
no
no
no
no
yes
no
no
GPU instances
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
yes
no
no
yes
no
no
yes
no
no
SSD Storage Available
yes
Hybrid
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
no
yes
IO based storage tiering
yes
no
D instance family only.
yes
yes
yes
Resource usage monitoring (CPU, RAM, disc, network, ...)
yes
yes
yes
yes
Including application metrics for typical open source software.
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
no
Via VMware vSphere
yes
yes
yes
yes
Turned off Cost
storage and IP
storage and IP
full
storage only
storage only
storage only
full
EBS storage if used, Elastic IP if used
storage only
full
storage
full
full
full
storage
Images & Licenses
Preinstalled cloud server images
44
14
10
28
250
Including "Click to Deploy software packages"
28
20
12000+
24
32
10
112
35
102
Windows license
7
8.1
10
Server 2008 R2 Web,Standard,Enterprise,Datacenter
2012 R2 Standard,Datacenter
2016 Standard,Datacenter
yes
Windows 2008 R2 Standard, Windows 2012 Standard
yes
2008 R2
yes
2008 R2 Web, Standard, Enterprise
2012 Standard
Remote Desktop Services SALs
yes
2016 Datacenter, Standard
2012 Datacenter, R2 Datacenter, Standard
2008 Enterprise, Standard 2003 Standard
yes
2008 R2
yes
2012 STD R2
yes
yes
2008 R2 Standard, 2012
yes
2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise 2008 Standard, Enterprise 2003 Standard, Enterprise
yes
2008 R2
2012
2012 R2
yes
2016, 2008, 2012
yes
2008 Enterprise, 2008 R2 Enterprise, 2012 Standard
yes
Server 2008 R2 SP1
Server 2012 Datacenter
Server 2012 R2 Datacenter
Server Essentials Experience
HPC Pack 2012 R2
Server Technical Preview/br/>
yes
yes
2008 Standard, Data Center 2012 Essentials, Standard, Data Center 2003 Terminal Server
yes
SQL Server license
no
SQL Server Standard, Web, Enterprise
yes
no
2008 Web, Standard, Enterprise
2012 Standard
yes
2016 Enterprise, Standard, Web
2012 Enterprise, Standard, Web
2008 R2 Web, Standard
yes
no
on request
yes
no
2008 R2 STD, ENT 2012 R2 STD, ENT
yes
yes
Standard, Enterprise, Web
yes
2008 R2 Standard 64bit, 2008 R2 Web 64bit, 2012 R2 Standard 64bit, 2012 R2 Web 64bit
yes
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
Web Standard, Enterprise
yes
RedHat Linux license
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
yes
no
Free
yes
yes
6,7
yes
no
yes
yes
Other licenses
no
cPanel
yes
no
no
no
SUSE
yes
no
Oracle, ...
no
SharePoint 2010
yes
no
Citrix, Veeam, Zerto, Trend, Turnkey
yes
ISPmanager is offered free of charge to customers
cPanel, Plesk, ISPmanager
MS Sharepoint, MS BizTalk Server, MS Team Foundation Server, MS Dynamics, Oracle, SUSE
yes
Exchange, BizTalk, Sharepoint, Office, Project, Visio
yes
Transfer MS License
no
no
no
yes
yes
no
no
When Windows is installed from ISO CD.
yes
no
Microsoft License mobility supported.
yes
no
yes
Transfer
Transfer or bandwidth
transfer
transfer
transfer
transfer
transfer
transfer
bandwidth
transfer
transfer
transfer
transfer
transfer
transfer
transfer
transfer
bandwidth
Free transfer in
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
10 Mbps
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
2 TB
yes
no
yes
Free transfer included
Only for monthly billing
5 TB per cloud server
no
no
1 TB (Dallas and Miami)
If $10 per month is spent.
5 TB per account
no
10 Mbps
no
50 GB per account
no
1 TB per cloud server
no
2 TB IN and 2 TB OUT
5 GB
500 GB per server
yes
1 Gbps
Pay-as-you-go
yes
yes
yes
yes
Need to prepay, but any size and no time limits
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
no
yes
yes
Transfer packages
no
no
yes
Lower price if you commit in advance.
yes
no
no
no
no
no
Resource bundles including transfer.
no
no
yes
yes
no
no
no
No Transfer Limit
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
100 Mbps
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
no
2 TB IN and 2 TB OUT
no
yes
1 Gbps
yes
Transfer per server or account
account
account
account
account
account
account
cloud server
account
account
account
per account
cloud server or virtual data centre
cloud server
account
cloud server
Is 1 Gbps per VM or ACCOUNT?
Free private transfer
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Within an availability zone.
yes
no
Only within a zone.
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Free transfer to dedicated/collocation
N/A
yes
no
no
yes
no
no
Hosted in beyond.pl
yes
no
yes
no
no
Networking
Free IP
no
no
yes
1 dynamic per cloud server
yes
1 dynamic per server
yes
1 IP per server while it is running
yes
yes
1 per cloud server, either dynamic or fixed but paid if cloud server is off.
yes
1 per cloud server
yes
2 - 8 per cloud network
yes
yes
yes
no
5 per account
2 per account
yes
1 per cloud server
yes
Mappable IP
no
yes
no
First server attached, additional can be mapped
yes
With purchased IP
yes
yes
no
Elastic IP
yes
no
yes
additional EIP addresses can be mapped to one or more servers
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
Multiple IP per cloud server
yes
yes
Max 8 per server
yes
yes
yes
Only private and public
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Service request with justification
yes
yes
no
yes
IP cost
$1 per month
$0.005 per hour
$5
$3 per month
$2.5
$0.01 per hour
2.5 BGN / month
One free per cloud server if running.
$0.005 / hour
€0.005 per hour
Maximum 3x number of cloud servers
$0.0027 per hour
0.0128 EUR / hour
5.50
$1 per month
$0.004 per hour
1 GBP
free
IPv6
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
yes
yes
no
no
yes
Private IP
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
no
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
Manage VLANs
yes
Virtual Private Cloud
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
Virtual Private Cloud
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
no
yes
yes
Load balancing service
no
yes
yes
no
no
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
no
Included with Basic and Advanced NSX firewalls
yes
Not a service, but there is pre-configured image with HAProxy & Pacemaker with hot standby sharing the same IP for failover.
partial
yes
yes
yes
Load balancing type
software
no
no
software
software
software
software
no
software
yes
HAProxy
software
DNS
software
Security
Encrypted storage
no
no
no
yes
yes
All data written to disks is encrypted by default.
yes
no
no
no
yes
no
yes
no
no
no
VLAN per customer
yes
If in "Virtual Private Cloud" or "Isolated"
yes
no
Can be purchased
no
yes
yes
Via support request
yes
If in Virtual Private Cloud
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
Dedicated & cloud servers in single VLAN
N/A
May require setup cost
yes
no
no
Dedicated servers available via sales; offer not available on website.
yes
no
Via support request
yes
no
no
Private networks available
yes
yes
no
no
yes
VPN
no
via support
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Via support request
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
Only to created virtual networks.
yes
yes
yes
Firewall
no
Virtual Private Cloud and Isolated networks only
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
$0.05 / hour
yes
no
hardware, statefull, IDS
yes
yes
Via vCloud Director
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
ISO/IEC 27001
no
yes
London Maidenhead, UK and Hong Kong
partial
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
SSAE 16 (former SAS 70 Type II)
no
yes
yes
Only USA locations
partial
yes
SOC2 and SOC3
yes
no
yes
no
SOC 1 USA data centers
yes
yes
no
yes
SOC 1, SOC 2 and SOC 3
yes
yes
HIPAA Compilant
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
no
no
yes
yes
yes
FISMA Compilant
no
yes
US location only
yes
no
yes
no
no
yes
yes
yes
PCI DSS
no
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
no
USA data centers
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Safe Harbor / EU Directive 95/46/EC
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
Locations
North America
New York, USA
Santa Clara, USA
Texas, USA
yes
San Diego, CA, USA
yes
Lansing, MI, USA Phoenix, AZ, USA
yes
Dallas, TX, USA
Miami, FL, USA
San Jose, CA, USA
Los Angeles, CA, USA
San Antonio, TX, USA
Toronto, Canada
yes
San Jose, California, USA
Washington D.C., USA
Miami, Florida, USA
Honolulu, Hawaii, 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
Northern Virginia, USA (East) Northern California, USA (West) Oregon, USA (West)
yes
no
USA East & West
yes
no
no
Atlanta, GA, USA Richmond, VA, USA
yes
Central US, Iowa
East US, Virginia
North Central US, Illinois
South Central US, Texas
West US, California
Toronto, Canada
Quebec City, Canada
yes
Somerset, NJ, USA San Jose, CA, USA
yes
New Jersey, USA
Denver, USA
yes
South America
no
no
no
no
no
São Paulo, Brasil
yes
no
São Paulo, Brazil
yes
no
no
no
no
no
Brazil, Sao Paulo State
yes
no
no
Europe
Amsterdam, Netherlands
London, UK
yes
no
no
London Maidenhead, UK
London Portsmouth, UK
Amsterdam, Netherlands
yes
Zurich, Switzerland (2 data centers)
Warsaw, Poland
Frankfurt, Germany
yes
St. Ghislain, Belgium, EU (West)
London, UK, EU (West)
Frankfurt, Germany, EU (West)
Eemshaven, Netherlands, EU (West)
yes
Sofia, Bulgaria
yes
Ireland
yes
Poznań & Warsaw Poland
yes
yes
Switzerland, Austria, Germany
yes
no
no
Ireland
Netherlands
yes
London, UK
yes
London, UK
yes
Asia
Hong Kong, China
Petach Tikva, Israel
Jerusalem, Israel
Rosh Haayin, Israel
Tel Aviv, Israel
yes
no
no
Hong Kong, China
yes
Manila, Philippines
yes
Mumbai, India (Asia South)
Changhua County, Taiwan (Asia East)
Tokyo, Japan (Asia North East)
Jurong West, Singapore (Asia South East)
yes
no
Singapore Tokyo, Japan
yes
no
yes
no
Jakarta, Indonesia
yes
no
East Asia, Hong Kong
Southeast Asia, Singapore
Japan East, Saitama Prefecture
Japan West, Osaka Prefecture
yes
Hong Kong, China Shanghai, China
yes
Kuala Lumpur, Malesia
yes
Australia
no
no
no
Sydney
yes
Perth, Melbourne
yes
Sydney, Australia
yes
no
Sydney, Australia
yes
no
yes
no
Sydney, Melbourne, Perth
yes
no
Australia East, New South Wales
Australia Southeast, Victoria
yes
no
no
Africa
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
no
no
no
no
no
Reliability & Failover
SLA level
99.9%
3% TCP/IP loss rate
30 ms latency
99.95%
Network & power
100%
100%
100%
99.95%
99.9%
99.995%
99.98%
Includes network latency < 1 ms
100%
Africa: 99.95%
99.95%
99.99%
100%
For 2+ VMs running in the same "Availability Set".
99.95%
100%
100%
SLA credit
5% for first 5 min. and every subsequent 30 min. Up to 100%.
1,000% of unavailable time
10,000% up to one month bill
5,000% up to last monthly bill
10% - 50%
10% of annual bill
200% of hourly service fee for each hour
5% monthly for up to 1h, 100% monthly for 11h+
99.95% - 98.3%: 50% monthly fee
< 98.3%: 100% monthly fee
20-45% of monthly bill
9,600%
<99.9% - 10%
<99% - 25%
1 day per hour
SLA exceptions
maitenance, customer generated failure, exploited server
scheduled maintenance
scheduled maintenance, attracts
<15 min., maintenance
maitenance
maitenance, periods < 5 min.
5 min.
planned maintenance
scheduled or emergency maintenance
planned maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance, Force Majure
15+ min., max equiv. of 30 days
out of Microsoft control
scheduled maintenance
Multiple zones in region
no
yes
Only US Central (Lansing, MI)
yes
Only US west and UK
partial
In Zurich (Switzerland, Europe)
partial
yes
no
2 - 5 per region
yes
yes
yes
Geneva and Zurich
yes
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
yes
Tier 3+ DC
yes
Only US Central (Lansing, MI)
partial
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
US location tier 4
yes
yes
yes
USA data centers
yes
yes
NextDC M1 Melbourne, Vocus DC1 Sydney, NextDC B1 Brisbane, Amcom DC3 Perth, Equinix SY4 Sydney
yes
yes
yes
Automatic failover to other server
no
yes
no
yes
no
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
yes
yes
yes
With warm copy in different zone
yes
Live migration allows moving running instances to another server without downtime - host maintenance doesn't affect cloud server availability.
yes
VMware HA and DRS
yes
yes
Storage attachment
network
server
server
server
network & local
server
Instance storage: server EBS: network
no
local
network
network
fiber channel
network
RAID level
ZFS pool of mirrors with ZIL and L2ARC
Bare Metal: none, RAID 1, 10
RAID 1
RAID 6
no
RAID 6
10
RAID 5
Raid DP
Backup - snapshot
yes
yes
yes
with Elastic Containers
partial
yes
t
yes
no
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
Backup - storage
no
yes
no
no
no
yes
yes
S3 or Glacier
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Veam
yes
Services
Cloud Files service
no
Compatible with AWS S3.
yes
no
no
no
yes
no
S3 (Simple Storage Service)
yes
yes
Only in USA region.
yes
yes
VAST Object Storage
yes
no
yes
no
no
CDN service
no
no
no
no
no
In beta.
yes
no
Cloud Front
yes
no
no
no
no
yes
yes
yes
no
DNS service
no
no
yes
no
no
yes
no
Route 53
yes
yes
no
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
no
NoSQL service
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
DynamoDB, Redshift, SimpleDB
yes
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
no
SQL service
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
RDS (Simple Storage Service) - MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle
yes
no
as managed service
yes
MySQL
yes
no
yes
yes
no
no
Memcache service
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
ElastiCache
yes
no
no
no
no
yes
yes
no
no
Dedicated servers
no
yes
As LiquidWeb
yes
no
Dedicated servers available via sales; offer not available on website.
yes
no
yes
no
In beyond.pl
yes
yes
yes
no
no
no
yes
yes
Collocation
no
yes
As LiquidWeb
yes
no
yes
no
yes
no
In beyond.pl
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
no
no
yes
Support
Response Time
In urgent cases, not guaranteed.
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
Extended 24/7: 30 min.
Standard 24/7: 1 hour
Extended 9/5: 1 hour
Standard 9/5: 2 hours
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.
15 min. incidents 1 hour standard requests
SLA:
- 60 minutes for severity 1 incidents
- 8 hours standard requests
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
SLA:
Developer: 8h
Standard: 2h
Professional: 1h
Premier: 15 min
Named technical contact
24x7
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Platinum Plan - high priority issues
Gold Plan - Outages only
yes
With minimum Standard 24/7 support package.
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
all paid plans
yes
yes
yes
Free
yes
yes
infrastructure level
yes
yes
yes
Bronze plan - billing issues only, otherwise community and knowledge center
yes
no
Basic level does not include any contact possibilities
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
Paid level provides preferential service over support requests of equal severity, priority phone number which auto-escalates to management.
yes
included level covers only billing issues
no
yes
yes
Phone
yes
After ticket opened on-line
yes
yes
yes
Platinum support level
yes
Gold and Platinum plans
yes
yes
Business, Enterprise levels
yes
no
yes
no
yes
Also Skype
yes
Standard (3 per month), Professional and Premier levels
yes
yes
yes
Chat
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
no
no
Business, Enterprise levels
yes
no
no
no
no
yes
no
Ticket system or email
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Paid plans only
yes
yes
Developer, Business, Enterprise levels
yes
yes
Only ticket system
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Forum
no
no
no
no
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
no
no
no
yes
no
Knowledge base
no
yes
yes
FAQ and tutorials
yes
yes
FAQ
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
FAQ
yes
yes
yes
yes
Managed services
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
no
no
Enterprise level
yes
yes
yes
no
no
no
no
yes
Billing
Cloud server biling period
hour
hourly
hour
15 min
5 minutes
second (1 minute minimum)
month
second (1 minute minimum)
yes
hour
minute
month
month
minute
month
hour
No monthly precharge
yes
yes
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
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
no
yes
no
Billing per cloud server or account
cloud server
account
cloud server
account
account
see sustained usage discounts
account
cloud server
cloud server
cloud server
server
account
yes
cloud server
cloud server
server
cloud server
License billing period
hour
hour
hour
month
5 minutes
second (1 minute minimum)
month
Eventhough VMs are billed to a second, licenses are billed per hour.
hour
hour
hour
hour
month
month
minute
month
month
Prepaid
no
no
no
yes
credit limit upon request
yes
no
yes
no
yes
no
also post-paid
yes
yes
yes
no
post-paid
no
Currency
USD
USD
USD
Depending on the location
USD, GBP, EUR
USD, EUR, GBP, CHF, PHP, AUD, PLN, BRL, INR, SAR, IRR
USD
BGN
USD
USD, EUR, PLN
USD
USD, EUR, CHF
AUD
USD
USD, EUR, CAD, GBP, DKK, NOK, SEK, CHF, JPY, AUD, NZD, KWR, RUB, ZAR, TRY, SAR, ARS, BRL, HKD, INR, MXN, IDR, TWD, MYR
GBP
Depends on location
USD, GBP
Credit card
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
PayPal
no
For dedicated servers only
partial
no
yes
yes
no
yes
no
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
Wire transfer
no
Large payments only
yes
no
yes
yes
no
yes
no
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
Resource plans
no
With Contract
yes
no
no
no
yes
no
no
no
yes
no
yes
no
no
yes
Longer subscription
no
With Contract
yes
no
month and year
yes
up to 3 years
yes
no
yes
no
no
no
no
yes
4% for Quarter, 7% for Bi-annual, 9% for Year
yes
no
yes
Reservation
no
With Contract
yes
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
Volume Discounts
no
With Contract or Reseller Agreement
yes
no
yes
yes
no
no
In reserved instances and transfer
yes
Bonuses for larger prepaid charges - up to 100%
yes
Only transfer and cloud files storage
yes
no
yes
no
Enterprise Agreement
yes
yes
Trial & Specials
Free trial
30 day
yes
no
no
5 days
yes
7 days
yes
$300 for one year
yes
7 days
yes
no
20 PLN (~ $5) for Cloudorado users
yes
14 days or $200
yes
5 CHF, 4 EUR, 5 USD
yes
30 days for Australian customers only
yes
no
$200
yes
no
7 days
yes
Money back guarantee
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
yes
7 Days
yes
yes
no
no
30 days
yes
Free entry level service
no
no
no
no
Free tier of 1GB RAM, 50GB SSD & 5TB data transfer per month. Accounts spending over $10 per month automatically qualify.
yes
Always Free limited access to many common services.
yes
no
Free Tier for one year
yes
no
no
no
no
no
MSDN subscribers get $50-$150 credits per month
yes
no
no
Third-Party Tools Support
Rightscale
no
yes
no
no
no
yes
no
yes
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
no
Scalr
no
yes
no
no
no
yes
no
yes
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
no
Provider Information
Name
Kamatera Inc.
M5 Hosting, Inc.
Liquid Web
ElasticHosts Ltd
CloudSigma
Google Inc.
Cloudware.bg
Amazon
Beyond.pl Sp z o. o.
Dimension Data
Exoscale
Zettagrid Pty Ltd
eApps Hosting
Microsoft
Hyve Managed Hosting
Access Alto
Address
10601 Tierrasanta Blvd. #G-135, San Diego, CA 92124
4210 S. Creyts Rd, Lansing, MI 48917-9526, US
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Badenerstrasse 549 8048 Zurich Switzerland
Googleplex, Mountain View, California, USA
1784 Sofia, Mladost 1
20A Andrey Saharov Blvd.
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
ul. Palacza 113, 60-273 Poznań, Poland
5201 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054
Route de Marcolet 39 CH - 1023 Crissier Switzerland
Level 36 1 Farrer Place Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia
7742 Spalding Drive # 363, Norcross, GA 30092, USA
1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA
Richmond House, 105 High Street, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 1DD, United Kingdom
5th Floor, 315 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016 United States
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1997
2008
2009
1998
2013
1994
AWS: 2006
2005
1983
2011
2010
1996
1975
Azure: 2010
1999
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