Cloud Computing Comparison Essay

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Unit 2: cloud computing Research
AMAZON
A. Cost: Pricing is per instance-hour consumed for each instance, from the time an instance is launched until it is terminated. Each partial instance-hour consumed will be billed as a full service.

Standard Storage
Reduced Redundancy Storage
Glacier Storage
First 1 TB / month
$0.095 per GB
$0.076 per GB
$0.010 per GB
Next 49 TB / month
$0.080 per GB
$0.064 per GB
$0.010 per GB
Next 450 TB / month
$0.070 per GB
$0.056 per GB
$0.010 per GB
Next 500 TB / month
$0.065 per GB
$0.052 per GB
$0.010 per GB
Next 4000 TB / month
$0.060 per GB
$0.048 per GB
$0.010 per GB
Over 5000 TB / month
$0.055 per GB
$0.037 per GB
$0.010 per GB

B. Client Software Features: Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are preconfigured with an ever-growing list of operating systems. We work with our partners and community to provide you with the most choice possible. You are also empowered to use our bundling tools to upload your own operating systems. The operating systems currently available to use with your Amazon EC2 instances.
C. Customer Service: Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a highly scalable cloud computing platform with high availability and dependability, and the flexibility to enable customers to build a wide range of applications. In order to provide end-to-end security and end-to-end privacy, AWS builds services in accordance with security best practices, provides appropriate security features in those services, and documents how to use those features. In addition, AWS customers must use those features and best practices to architect an appropriately secure application environment. Enabling customers to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of their data is of the utmost importance to AWS, as is maintaining trust and confidence.
D. API’s: This class fetches product information via the Product Advertising API by Amazon (formerly ECS).It supports two basic operations: ItemSearch and ItemLookup. These operations could be expanded with extra parameters to specialize the query.

RACKSPACE:
Features
Cloud Sites
Cloud Servers
Managed Cloud Servers
Built-in load balancer
(Web server) + - -
Built-in redundancy
(Web server, database, storage, admin, load balancer) +
-
-
Bandwidth
(500GB) + - -
Patching & upgrades
(Infrastructure & LAMP/.NET stack) + - +
Full root/admin access to customize environment
(Customize PHP config or web.config files, etc.) -
+
+
API access
(Mobile apps access – Android, iOS) - + +
Proactive monitoring notification - - +
Price*
$150/Mo.
(Linux or Windows)
$350/Mo. (Linux)
$467/Mo. (Windows)
2x More
$1150/Mo. (Linux)
$1270/Mo. (Windows)
7x More

GOOGLE:
A. Costs: Google Drive is also competitively priced. Any user can have 5GB of cloud storage for free. Upgrading to 25GB of Drive storage, which includes a boost in Gmail