Cloud-computing comparison

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

## IaaS (Infrastructure as a service)

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### Providers

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#### General

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Provider  | Launched  | Block storage  | Assignable IPs  | SMTP support  | IOPS Guaranteed minimum | Security | Locations | Notes

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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, sg  |
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)

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### General

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SaaS (Software as a Service)  | Initial release date  | License(s)  | Written in  | As a service  | Local installations

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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
Nimbus | 2009-01-09  | Apache License | Java, Python  | Yes  | Yes
OpenNebula[36] | 2008-03-??  | Apache License | C++, C, Ruby, Java, Shell script, lex, yacc  | Yes  | Yes
OpenQRM[37] | 2008-03-??  | GPL License | C++, PHP, Shell script  | Yes  | Yes
OpenShift[38] | 2011-05-04  | Apache License | Go  | Yes  | Yes
OpenStack[39] | 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

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Software  | Linux  | FreeBSD  | Windows  | Bare Metal

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AppScale | ?  | ?  | ?
Cloud Foundry | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes
Cloud.com / CloudStack  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes
Eucalyptus | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes[40]
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

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Software  | Linux  | Windows  | VMware  | Xen  | KVM  | VirtualBox  | Docker  | Other

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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[41] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  |
Eucalyptus | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Any guest OS supported by Xen, KVM, or VMWare
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)

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### Providers

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Provider  | Launched  | SaaS

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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

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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

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AppScale | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  |
Cloud Foundry | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  |
Cloud.com | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | itself
Eucalyptus | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | 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

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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.
35. ^ Prickett Timothy M. (May 10, 2011). "Ubuntu eats OpenStack for clouds - Eucalyptus leaves." The Register. Accessed November 2011.
36. ^ European Commission Expert Group Report (January 26, 2010). "The Future of Cloud Computing"
37. ^ " OpenQRM Enterprise Architecture (February 24, 2010)
38. ^ Schabell, Eric (December 2012). OpenShift Primer. Developer.Press.
39. ^ Pepple, Ken (August 2011). Deploying OpenStack. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-1-4493-1105-6.
40. ^ Poul Weiss " Youtube.com install instruction for node cluster." Youtube Video. 12 October 2012.
41. ^ "Apache CloudStack Features - Wide Range Guest VM OS Support". Archived from the original on 2013-10-05. Retrieved 2013-10-04.
42. ^ Kubernetes Cloud at safeswisscloud.com
43. ^ Open Cloud at safeswisscloud.com

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Cloud computing

Business models|

* Content as a service
* Data as a service
* Desktop as a service
* Function as a service
* Infrastructure as a service
* Integration platform as a service
* Backend as a service
* Network as a service
* Platform as a service
* Security as a service
* Software as a service

Technologies|

* Cloud database
* Cloud-native computing
* Cloud storage
* Cloud storage gateways
* Data centers
* Dew computing
* Distributed file system for cloud
* Hardware virtualization
* Internet
* Mobile cloud computing
* Native cloud application
* Networking
* Personal cloud
* Security
* Serverless computing
* Structured storage
* Virtual appliance
* Web APIs
* Virtual private cloud

Applications|

* Box
* Dropbox
* Google
* Workspace
* Drive
* HP Cloud (closed)
* IBM Cloud
* Lark
* Microsoft
* Office 365
* OneDrive
* Nextcloud
* Oracle Cloud
* Owncloud
* Proton Drive
* Rackspace
* Salesforce
* Seafile
* PlateSpin
* Workday
* Zoho

Platforms|

* Alibaba Cloud
* Amazon Web Services
* AppScale
* Box
* CloudBolt
* Cloud Foundry
* Cocaine (PaaS)
* Engine Yard
* Helion
* GE Predix
* Google App Engine
* GreenQloud
* Heroku
* IBM Cloud
* Inktank
* Jelastic
* Microsoft Azure
* MindSphere
* Netlify
* Oracle Cloud
* OutSystems
* openQRM
* OpenShift
* PythonAnywhere
* RightScale
* Scalr
* Force.com
* SAP Business Technology Platform
* Splunk
* Vercel
* vCloud Air
* WaveMaker

Infrastructure|

* Alibaba Cloud
* Amazon Web Services
* Abiquo Enterprise Edition
* CloudStack
* Citrix Cloud
* Deft
* DigitalOcean
* EMC Atmos
* Eucalyptus
* Fujitsu
* Google Cloud
* GreenButton
* GreenQloud
* IBM Cloud
* iland
* Joyent
* Linode
* Lunacloud
* Microsoft Azure
* Mirantis
* Netlify
* Nimbula
* Nimbus
* OpenIO
* OpenNebula
* OpenStack
* Oracle Cloud
* OrionVM
* Rackspace Cloud
* Safe Swiss Cloud
* Zadara
* libvirt
* libguestfs
* OVirt
* Virtual Machine Manager
* Wakame-vdc
* Vercel
* Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand

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