Cloud-computing comparison
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The following is a comparison of cloud-computing software and providers.
Providers
General
Provider | Launched | Block storage | Assignable IPs | SMTP support | IOPS Guaranteed minimum | Locations | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Google Cloud Platform | 2013 | Yes | No | No[1] | Yes | us, jp, cn, be, uk, de, au, in, br, sg, fi | Mandatory components use up to 12% of RAM.[2]
SMTP blocked.[3] | |
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | 2014 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | us, ca, br, de, uk, nl, ch, in, aus, jp, kr, saud | ||
Amazon Web Services | 2006 | Yes | Yes | Partial[4] | Yes | us, ca, br, ie, de, uk, cn, sg, au, jp, kr, in, za, fr, se, bh, hk, it | List of bugs[5] | |
IBM Cloud | 2005 | Yes | Yes | No[6] | Yes | us, gb, fr, de, nl, in, au, hk, kr, it, jp, no, sg | ||
Microsoft Azure | 2010 | Yes | Yes | Yes[7] | Yes | ca, us, br, ie, nl, de, uk, cn, au, jp, in, kr, sg, hk, za | List of bugs[8] | |
Ridge Cloud | 2018 | Yes | No | No | No | ae, ar, au, at, be, br, bg, bl, ca, cn, cz, de, dk, do, ee, fi, fr, gr, hk, hu, ie, in, id, il, it, jp, kz, kr, lt, ma, mx, nl, no, nz, pe, ph, pl, pt, qa, ro, ru, sa, sg, se, tw, th, tr, uk, us, za[9] | ||
GoDaddy | 2016 | No | No | |||||
Rackspace | 1998 | Partial | No | Yes | No | us, au, hk | root volume is a fixed size | |
OVH | 1999[10] | Yes | Yes[11] | Yes[12] | Yes | au, ca, de, fr, gb, pl, us, sg[13] | ||
Atlantic.Net | 2010 | No | Yes | No | us, uk, ca | |||
Scaleway[14] | 16,304[15] | 2016 | Yes | Yes[16] | Yes[17] | Yes | fr, nl | |
Alibaba Cloud | 2009 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | cn, hk, sg, au, my, id, in, jp, us, de, uk, ae | ||
Hetzner Cloud | Yes | de, fi, us | ||||||
Safe Swiss Cloud | 2013[18] | Yes | Yes | Yes | ch | |||
DigitalOcean | 2016[19] | Partial | Yes | Partial | sg, nl, uk, ca, de, in | SMTP for accounts older than 60 days[20] but they use spam mandrillapp servers.[21] root volume is a fixed size. |
SaaS (Software as a Service)
General
SaaS (Software as a Service) | Initial release date | License(s) | Written in | As a service | Local installations |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
fluid Operations eCloudManager | 2009-03-01 | Proprietary | Java, Groovy | No | Yes |
AppScale[22] | 2009-03-07 | Apache License[1] | Python, Ruby, Go | Yes | Yes |
Cloud Foundry | 2011-04-12 | Apache License | Ruby, C, Java, Go | Yes | Yes |
Cloud.com / CloudStack[23] | 2010-05-04 | Apache license | Java, C | Yes | Yes |
Eucalyptus[24] | 2008-05-29 | Proprietary, GPL v3 | Java, C | Yes | Yes |
Flexiant Limited[25] | 2007-01-15 | Proprietary software | Java, C | Yes | Yes |
Nimbus | 2009-01-09 | Apache License | Java, Python | Yes | Yes |
OpenNebula[26] | 2008-03-?? | Apache License | C++, C, Ruby, Java, Shell script, lex, yacc | Yes | Yes |
OpenQRM[27] | 2008-03-?? | GPL License | C++, PHP, Shell script | Yes | Yes |
OpenShift[28] | 2011-05-04 | Apache License | Go | Yes | Yes |
OpenStack[29] | 2010-10-21 | Apache License | Python | Yes | Yes |
OnApp | 2010-07-01 | Proprietary | Java, Ruby, C++ | Yes | Yes |
oVirt | 2012-08-09 | Apache License | Java, Python | ? | Yes |
Jelastic | 2011-01-27 | GPL License, Apache License, BSD License | Java, JavaScript, Perl, Shell script | Yes | Yes |
Supported hosts
Software | Linux | FreeBSD | Windows | Bare Metal |
---|---|---|---|---|
AppScale | ? | ? | ? | |
Cloud Foundry | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Cloud.com / CloudStack | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Eucalyptus | Yes | No | No | Yes[30] |
Flexiant Limited | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Nimbus | Yes | ? | No | No |
OpenNebula | Yes | No | ? | No |
OpenQRM | Yes | No | No | No |
OpenShift | Yes | No | No | Yes |
OpenStack | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
OnApp | Yes | No | No | Yes |
oVirt | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Supported guests
Software | Linux | Windows | VMware | Xen | KVM | VirtualBox | Docker | Other |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
fluid Operations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | |
AppScale | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | |
Cloud Foundry | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Cloud.com / CloudStack | Yes | Yes[31] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | |
Eucalyptus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Any guest OS supported by Xen, KVM, or VMWare |
Flexiant Limited | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | FreeBSD |
Nimbus | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | |
OpenNebula | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Any guest OS supported by Xen, KVM, or VMWare |
OpenQRM | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | |
OpenShift | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | |
OpenStack | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
OnApp | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | JumpBox, FreeBSD |
oVirt | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | ? | |
Jelastic | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Parallels Virtuozzo Containers |
Providers
Provider | Alexa[32] | Launched | SaaS |
---|---|---|---|
Appian | 52,717[33] | 1999 | |
Cloud Foundry | 79,327[34] | 2011 | |
CloudBees | 75,404[35] | 2010 | Java, JRails and Grails, Jenkins |
Computer Sciences Corporation | 21,045[36] | ||
Engine Yard | 46,958[37] | 2006 | |
Heroku | 7,464[38] | 2008 | Ruby, Java, Node.js, Scala, Clojure, Python, PHP, and Go. |
Oracle Cloud Platform | 351[39] | 2014 | |
PythonAnywhere | 10,910[40] | 2012 | Python |
Salesforce App Cloud | 150[41] |
Providers on IaaS
PaaS providers which can run on IaaS providers ("itself" means the provider is both PaaS and IaaS):
Software | Amazon EC2 | Rackspace | GoGrid | Mail.Ru (MCS) | Other |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AppScale | Yes | ? | ? | ? | |
Cloud Foundry | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | |
Cloud.com | ? | ? | ? | ? | itself |
Eucalyptus | ? | ? | ? | ? | itself |
Flexiant Limited | ? | ? | ? | ? | Itself |
fluid Operations | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
Nimbus | ? | ? | ? | ? | itself |
OnApp | ? | ? | ? | ? | itself |
OpenNebula | ? | ? | ? | ? | itself |
OpenQRM | ? | ? | ? | ? | itself |
OpenShift | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Safe Swiss Cloud[42] |
OpenStack | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Safe Swiss Cloud[43] |
References
- ^ SMTP at Google compute
- ^ "RAM usage · Issue #797 · GoogleCloudPlatform/Compute-image-packages". GitHub.
- ^ "Sending email from an instance | Compute Engine Documentation".
- ^ Restriction on port 25 at AWS
- ^ Amazon bugs at Ubuntu
- ^ SMTP at IBM
- ^ SMTP at Azure
- ^ Azure bugs at Ubuntu
- ^ "Global Infrastructure | Ridge Cloud". Ridge Cloud. 2023-01-22. Archived from the original on 2023-01-17. Retrieved 2023-01-22.
- ^ Clabaugh, Jeff (2016-10-06). "French firm to open 1st US data center in Fauquier Co". WTOP. Archived from the original on 2019-10-16. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
- ^ "Failover IP - Networking & Security | OVHcloud". OVH. 2019-11-26. Archived from the original on 2019-11-27. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
- ^ "Getting started with an MX Plan solution | OVH Guides". OVH. 2019-11-26. Archived from the original on 2019-11-27. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
- ^ "About OVH - Data Centers | OVHcloud". OVH. 2019-11-26. Archived from the original on 2019-11-27. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
- ^ scaleway in the news as IaaS
- ^ scaleway.com Archived 2016-08-18 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- ^ "How to deal with private and flexible IPs addresses". Scaleway. 2020-04-15.
- ^ SMTP at Scaleway
- ^ safeswisscloud at Internet Archive
- ^ DigitalOcean launches block storage and lets you store terabytes of data at techcrunch
- ^ SMTP policy at digitalocean
- ^ "Network Tools: DNS,IP,Email".
- ^ Urquhart, James (June 22, 2009). "The new generation of cloud-development platforms." CNET News. Accessed November 2011.
- ^ Harris, Derrick Harris (October 22, 2010). "Microsoft Joins OpenStack to Add Hyper-V Support." Gigaom.com. Accessed November 2011.
- ^ Prickett Timothy M. (May 10, 2011). "Ubuntu eats OpenStack for clouds - Eucalyptus leaves." The Register. Accessed November 2011.
- ^ "Vendor Landscape: Cloud Management". Info-Tech Research Group. October 24, 2012. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
- ^ European Commission Expert Group Report (January 26, 2010). "The Future of Cloud Computing"
- ^ " OpenQRM Enterprise Architecture (February 24, 2010)
- ^ Schabell, Eric (December 2012). OpenShift Primer. Developer.Press.
- ^ Pepple, Ken (August 2011). Deploying OpenStack. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-1-4493-1105-6.
- ^ Poul Weiss " Youtube.com install instruction for node cluster." Youtube Video. 12 October 2012.
- ^ "Apache CloudStack Features - Wide Range Guest VM OS Support". Archived from the original on 2013-10-05. Retrieved 2013-10-04.
- ^ Rank of parent domain
- ^ "appian.com Competitive Analysis, Marketing Mix and Traffic - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Archived from the original on 2021-08-03. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
- ^ www.cloudfoundry.org Archived 2016-11-11 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- ^ www.cloudbees.com Archived 2013-09-30 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- ^ www.csc.com[permanent dead link] at Alexa
- ^ engineyard.com Archived 2016-03-26 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- ^ "heroku.com Site Overview". www.alexa.com. Archived from the original on 2016-05-09. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
- ^ "Oracle.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Archived from the original on 2018-07-31. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
- ^ www.pythonanywhere.com Archived 2021-08-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- ^ "Salesforce.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Archived from the original on 2018-07-31. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
- ^ Kubernetes Cloud at safeswisscloud.com
- ^ Open Cloud at safeswisscloud.com