Cloud-computing comparison

The following is a comparison of cloud-computing software and providers.

IaaS (Infrastructure as a service)

Providers

General

Provider Launched Block storage Assignable IPs SMTP support IOPS Guaranteed minimum Security Locations Notes
Google Cloud Platform 2013 Yes No No[1] Yes Yes[2] br, ca, cl, us, be, ch, de, es, fi, it, po, nl, uk, il, au, cn, in, jp, sg, id, tw[3] SMTP blocked.[4]
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2014 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[5] us, ca, br, de, uk, nl, ch, in, aus, jp, kr, saud
Amazon Web Services 2006 Yes Yes Partial[6] Yes Yes[7] us, ca, br, ie, de, uk, cn, sg, au, jp, kr, in, za, fr, se, bh, hk, it, id List of bugs[8]
IBM Cloud 2005 Yes Yes No[9] Yes Yes[10] us, gb, fr, de, nl, in, au, hk, kr, it, jp, no, sg
Microsoft Azure 2010 Yes Yes Yes[11] Yes Yes[12] ca, us, br, ie, nl, de, uk, cn, au, jp, in, kr, sg, hk, za, id List of bugs[13]
GoDaddy 2016 No No Yes[14]
Rackspace 1998 Partial No Yes No Yes[15] us, au, hk root volume is a fixed size
OVH 1999[16] Yes Yes[17] Yes[18] Yes Yes[19] au, ca, de, fr, gb, pl, us, sg[20]
Atlantic.Net 2010 No Yes No Yes[21] us, uk, ca
Scaleway 2016 Yes Yes[22] Yes[23] Yes Yes[24] fr, nl
Alibaba Cloud 2009 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[25] cn, hk, sg, au, my, id, in, jp, us, de, uk, ae
Hetzner Cloud Yes Yes[26] de, fi, us
Safe Swiss Cloud 2013[27] Yes Yes Yes Yes[28] ch
DigitalOcean 2016[29] Partial Yes Partial Yes[30] sg, nl, uk, ca, de, in SMTP for accounts older than 60 days[31] but they use spam mandrillapp servers.[32] 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[33] 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[34] 2010-05-04 Apache license Java, C Yes Yes
Eucalyptus[35] 2008-05-29 Proprietary, GPL v3 Java, C Yes Yes
Flexiant Limited[36] 2007-01-15 Proprietary software Java, C Yes Yes
Nimbus 2009-01-09 Apache License Java, Python Yes Yes
OpenNebula[37] 2008-03-?? Apache License C++, C, Ruby, Java, Shell script, lex, yacc Yes Yes
OpenQRM[38] 2008-03-?? GPL License C++, PHP, Shell script Yes Yes
OpenShift[39] 2011-05-04 Apache License Go Yes Yes
OpenStack[40] 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[41]
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[42] 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

PaaS (Platform as a service)

Providers

Provider Launched SaaS
Appian 1999
Cloud Foundry 2011
CloudBees 2010 Java, JRails and Grails, Jenkins
Computer Sciences Corporation
Engine Yard 2006
Heroku 2008 Ruby, Java, Node.js, Scala, Clojure, Python, PHP, and Go.
Oracle Cloud Platform 2014
PythonAnywhere 2012 Python
Salesforce App Cloud

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[43]
OpenStack Yes Yes Yes Yes Safe Swiss Cloud[44]

References

  1. ^ SMTP at Google compute
  2. ^ Security, Privacy, and Cloud Compliance | Google Cloud
  3. ^ Global Locations - Regions & Zones | Google Cloud
  4. ^ "Sending email from an instance | Compute Engine Documentation".
  5. ^ Cloud Security Services
  6. ^ Restriction on port 25 at AWS
  7. ^ AWS Cloud Security
  8. ^ Amazon bugs at Ubuntu
  9. ^ SMTP at IBM
  10. ^ Security for IBM Cloud
  11. ^ SMTP at Azure
  12. ^ Introduction to Azure security at Azure
  13. ^ Azure bugs at Ubuntu
  14. ^ Website Security - Protect Your Site with GoDaddy
  15. ^ Cloud Security & Cybersecurity Solution
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ "Failover IP - Networking & Security | OVHcloud". OVH. 2019-11-26. Archived from the original on 2019-11-27. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
  18. ^ "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.
  19. ^ Network security and application protection | OVHcloud
  20. ^ "About OVH - Data Centers | OVHcloud". OVH. 2019-11-26. Archived from the original on 2019-11-27. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
  21. ^ PCI Security Services
  22. ^ "How to deal with private and flexible IPs addresses". Scaleway. 2020-04-15.
  23. ^ SMTP at Scaleway
  24. ^ Our certifications & security
  25. ^ Cloud Security
  26. ^ Security
  27. ^ safeswisscloud at Internet Archive
  28. ^ IT Security
  29. ^ DigitalOcean launches block storage and lets you store terabytes of data at techcrunch
  30. ^ DigitalOcean's security pillars
  31. ^ SMTP policy at digitalocean
  32. ^ "Network Tools: DNS,IP,Email".
  33. ^ Urquhart, James (June 22, 2009). "The new generation of cloud-development platforms." CNET News. Accessed November 2011.
  34. ^ Harris, Derrick Harris (October 22, 2010). "Microsoft Joins OpenStack to Add Hyper-V Support." Archived 2021-08-03 at the Wayback Machine Gigaom.com. Accessed November 2011.
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  37. ^ European Commission Expert Group Report (January 26, 2010). "The Future of Cloud Computing"
  38. ^ " OpenQRM Enterprise Architecture (February 24, 2010)
  39. ^ Schabell, Eric (December 2012). OpenShift Primer. Developer.Press.
  40. ^ Pepple, Ken (August 2011). Deploying OpenStack. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-1-4493-1105-6.
  41. ^ Poul Weiss " Youtube.com install instruction for node cluster." Youtube Video. 12 October 2012.
  42. ^ "Apache CloudStack Features - Wide Range Guest VM OS Support". Archived from the original on 2013-10-05. Retrieved 2013-10-04.
  43. ^ Kubernetes Cloud at safeswisscloud.com
  44. ^ Open Cloud at safeswisscloud.com