Comparing Cloud Computing Technologies

4.6 COMPARISON TABLE

Cloud service provider	*Rackspace Cloud	*Amazon AWS	*Microsoft Azure	* Salesforce.com
Launched	*2005	*2006	*2009	*2000
Cloud service	*IaaS	*PaaS and IaaS	*PaaS and IaaS	*SaaS and PaaS
Control interface	*Application Programming Interface (API) *Web based service	*Application Programming Interface (API) *Command Line	*Application Programming Interface (API) *Command Line	*Application Programming Interface (API) *Web based service
Operating System	*Arch 2011.07 *Cent OS *Debian *Fedora *Gentoo *Red Hat Enterprise *Ubuntu Linux *Windows Server 2008	*Debian *Fedora *Gentoo Linux *Red Hat Enterprise Linux *Open Solaris *Oracle Enterprise Linux *SUSE Linux *Ubuntu Linux *Windows Server 2003 *Windows Server 2008 *Amazon Linux AMI *openSUSE Linux	*Windows 7 *Windows Vista *Windows 8 *Windows Server 2008	*Not Available
Programming Language	*Java *PHP *Python *Ruby *.NET *C#	*Java *PHP *Python *Ruby *WinDev *.NET *Windows *C# *Perl *Mobile	*ASP.NET *VB.NET *PHP *Java *C#	*Apex *Java *VB.Net *Perl *PHP *Python *Ruby *Windows
Root Access	*Available	*Available	*Not Available	*Not Available
Processor	*32 Bit *64 Bit	*32 Bit *64 Bit	*Information not available	*Not Available
Virtualization	*Xen virtualization *Vmware virtualization	*Xen virtualization	*Hyper-v hypervisor	*Not Available
Security Features	* Free Bootable mode * Free Critical data privacy *Backup storage * Free Data protection *Snapshot backup * Free Persistency *Free Advance firewall	*Free Advance firewall *Free Custom/Secure permissions *Backup storage *Persistency *Snapshot backup	*Backup storage * Free Critical data privacy * Free Data protection * Free Persistency *Free Advance firewall	* Free Advanced email security * Free Advanced password security * Free Backup storage * Free Critical data privacy * Free Data protection * Free Failover features * Free Persistency * Free Snapshot backup
Databases	*Microsoft SQL server 2008 R2 Standard Edition *Microsoft SQL server 2008 R2 Web Edition *MySQL enterprise	*IBM DB2 *IBM Informix dynamic server *Microsoft SQL server standard *MySQL enterprise *Oracle database	*SQL Azure	*Not Available
Data center location	*US (Chicago) *US (Dallas) *US (Virginia) *EU (Netherlands) *Australia (Sydney) *UK (London) *Asia (Hong Kong)	*US East (Northern Virginia) *US West (Northern California) *EU (Ireland) *Asia Pacific (Singapore) *Asia Pacific (Tokyo) *AWS GovCloud (US) *South America (Sao Paulo)	*US (Chicago) *US (San Antonio) *Asia (Hong Kong) *Asia (Singapore) *EU (Netherlands) *EU (Ireland) *In total there are 24 nodes	US (San Francisco) Asia (Singapore)
Products	*Cloud Hosting *Managed Hosting *Hybrid Hosting *Email and Apps	*Compute *Content Delivery *Database *Deployment and Management *Messaging Service (SES) *Networking *Payments and Billing *Storage *Support *Workforce	*Compute *SQL Azure *Storage *Business Analytics *Service Bus *CDN (Content Delivery Network) *Virtual Network *Identity *HPC *Marketplace	*Sales Cloud *Data.com *Service Cloud *Chatter *Radian6 *Force.com *Heroku *Database.com *Siteforce *AppExchange *Remedyforce
Service Level Agreement	*Network and data center infrastructure is 100% guaranteed per month *Cloud files and Cloud load balancers 99.9% guaranteed per billing period	*Amazon route53 100% guaranteed per month *Amazon EC2 99.95% guaranteed per year *Amazon route53 and Amazon CloudFront 99.9% guaranteed per month	*Compute and connectivity 99.95% guaranteed per month *Storage, SQL Azure, Service Bus, Access Control, Business Analytic, Caching, and CDN 99.9% guaranteed per month.	*All services 99.9% guaranteed per month
SLA compensation	*Cloud load balancers, Migration nad Cloud server hosts 5% for each additional hour and up to 100% *Network and Data center Infrastructure 5% for 30 minutes and up to 100%	*Amazon EC2 10% for below 99.95% *Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront 10% for equal to or greater than 99% but less than 99.9% and 25% for less than 99%	*Compute connectivity, compute role instance monitoring, storage, CDN – 10% credit for below 99.95% and 25% for below 99.9%	*Not Available
Basic Pricing	*Cloud servers – 256MB RAM, 10GB storage - $0.015/hr *Cloud sites – 50GB storage, 500GB bandwidth, 10,000 compute cycles - $149/month *Cloud files - $0.15/GB storage/month, $0.18/GB bandwidth/month *Managed cloud servers - $199/month *Rackspace email - $2/mailbox/month *Rackspace server backup - $4/user/month,	*Amazon EC2 – Small – 1.7GB memory, 1 virtual core, 1 EC2 compute unit, 160GB storage, 32 bit - $0.085/hr (Linux) $0.12/hr (windows) *Amazon $0.015/hr *Amazon S3 – standard – 1TB/month $0.14/GB, $0.01/1000 requests *Amazon EBS - $0.1/ allocated GB/month, $0.1/million I/O requests *Amazon RDS – standard - 1.7GB memory, 64 bit - $0.11/hr *Amazon VPC – free *Amazon route53 – first 25 hosted zones - $0.5/month, first billion queries $0.5/month	*Compute – extra small – shared CPU cores. 768MB - $0.04/hr *SQL Azure – standard – pay as you go * Storage - $0.14/GB/month. $0.01/10,000 transaction *CDN - $0.12/GB, $0.01/10,000 transactions *Caching – $45 for 128MB cache size, 400,000 transactions/hr 1,400 data transfers/hr, 10 concurrent connections	*Sales cloud – contact management $2/user/month *Service cloud – professional edition $65/user/month *Data.com – clean call for price *Chatter – chatter free *Force.com – One app $15/user/month
Industrial Regulatory Compliance	*US Safe Harbor *SAS 70 Type II *ISO 27001 *PCI Data Security Standard	*SAS 70 Type II *HIPAA *SOX *ISO 27001 *PCI Data Security Standard *FIPS 140-2 *FISMA Moderate *International Traffic In Arms Compliance	*US Safe Harbor	*TRUSTe certified privacy *VeriSign Secured *SysTrust *SAS 70 Type II *US Safe Harbor *ISO 27001
Free Trial	*14 days free trial rackspace email	*Not available	*3 months free trial with 750 small compute hours per month, 1GB of database using web edition SQL, and 20GB storage covering 50,000 transactions	*30 day free trial for all services
Support	*Fanatical Support *24X7X365 *Forum *Live Chat *Online Resources *Phone *Urgent Response	*24/7 *Diagnostic Tools *Forums *Online Guides *Phone *Urgent Response	*24/7 *Forums *Online Resources *Phone *Urgent Response	*Forums *Knowledge Base *Online Resources *Phone
Root Access	*Available	*Available	*Not available	*Not available
Website	*rackspace.com	*aws.amazon.com	*windowsazure.com	*salesforce.com
Blog Community	*http://www.rackspace. com/blogs/	*http://forums.aws. Amazon.com	*http://www.windows azure.com/en-us/community/blog/	*http://blogs.salesforce. Com/company/