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 SMTP at Google compute Security, Privacy, and Cloud Compliance | Google Cloud br, ca, cl, us, be, ch, de, es, fi, it, po, nl, uk, il, au, cn, in, jp, sg, id, twGlobal Locations - Regions & Zones | Google Cloud SMTP blocked.Oracle Cloud 2014 Cloud Security Servicesus, ca, br, de, uk, nl, ch, in, aus, jp, kr, saud Amazon Web Services 2006 Restriction on port 25 at AWS AWS Cloud Security us, ca, br, ie, de, uk, cn, sg, au, jp, kr, in, za, fr, se, bh, hk, it, id List of bugsAmazon bugs at Ubuntu IBM Cloud 2005 SMTP at IBM Security for IBM Cloud us, gb, fr, de, nl, in, au, hk, kr, it, jp, no, sg Microsoft Azure 2010 SMTP at Azure Introduction to Azure security at Azure ca, us, br, ie, nl, de, uk, cn, au, jp, in, kr, sg, hk, za, id List of bugsAzure bugs at Ubuntu GoDaddy 2016 Website Security - Protect Your Site with GoDaddy Rackspace 1998 Cloud Security & Cybersecurity Solution us, au, hk root volume is a fixed size OVH 1999 Network security and application protection | OVHcloud au, ca, de, fr, gb, pl, us, sg Atlantic.Net 2010 PCI Security Services us, uk, ca Scaleway 2016 SMTP at Scaleway Our certifications & security fr, nl Alibaba Cloud 2009 Cloud Security cn, hk, sg, au, my, id, in, jp, us, de, uk, ae Hetzner Cloud Security de, fi, us, sg Safe Swiss Cloud 2013safeswisscloud at Internet Archive IT Security ch DigitalOcean 2016DigitalOcean launches block storage and lets you store terabytes of data at techcrunch DigitalOcean's security pillars sg, nl, uk, ca, de, in SMTP for accounts older than 60 daysSMTP policy at digitalocean but they use spam mandrillapp servers. root volume is a fixed size.BlackBox Hosting2013uk
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 AppScaleUrquhart, James (June 22, 2009). "The new generation of cloud-development platforms." CNET News. Accessed November 2011. 2009-03-07 Apache License Python, Ruby, Go Cloud Foundry 2011-04-12 Apache License Ruby, C, Java, Go Cloud.com / CloudStackHarris, Derrick Harris (October 22, 2010). "Microsoft Joins OpenStack to Add Hyper-V Support." Gigaom.com. Accessed November 2011. 2010-05-04 Apache license Java, C EucalyptusPrickett Timothy M. (May 10, 2011). "Ubuntu eats OpenStack for clouds - Eucalyptus leaves." The Register. Accessed November 2011. 2008-05-29 Proprietary, GPL v3 Java, C Nimbus 2009-01-09 Apache License Java, Python OpenNebulaEuropean Commission Expert Group Report (January 26, 2010). "The Future of Cloud Computing" 2008-03-?? Apache License C++, C, Ruby, Java, Shell script, lex, yacc OpenQRM" OpenQRM Enterprise Architecture (February 24, 2010) 2008-03-?? GPL License C++, PHP, Shell script OpenShift 2011-05-04 Apache License Go OpenStack 2010-10-21 Apache License Python OnApp 2010-07-01 Proprietary Java, Ruby, C++ oVirt 2012-08-09 Apache License Java, Python ? Jelastic 2011-01-27 GPL License, Apache License, BSD License Java, JavaScript, Perl, Shell script
Supported hosts Software Linux FreeBSD Windows Bare Metal AppScale ? ? ? Cloud Foundry Cloud.com / CloudStack Eucalyptus Poul Weiss " Youtube.com install instruction for node cluster." Youtube Video. 12 October 2012. Nimbus ? OpenNebula ? OpenQRM OpenShift OpenStack OnApp oVirt
Supported guests Software Linux Windows VMware Xen KVM VirtualBox Docker Other fluid Operations ? AppScale ? ? ? Cloud Foundry Yes Cloud.com / CloudStack ? Eucalyptus ? ? Any guest OS supported by Xen, KVM, or VMWare Nimbus ? ? ? ? OpenNebula ? Any guest OS supported by Xen, KVM, or VMWare OpenQRM ? OpenShift ? OpenStack OnApp ? JumpBox, FreeBSD oVirt ? Jelastic ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes Parallels Virtuozzo Containers
PaaS (Platform as a service)
Providers Provider Launched SaaSAppian1999Cloud Foundry2011 CloudBees 2010 Java, JRails and Grails, Jenkins Computer Sciences Corporation Engine Yard 2006 Heroku2008Ruby, Java, Node.js, Scala, Clojure, Python, PHP, and Go.Oracle Cloud Platform2014 PythonAnywhere 2012 PythonSalesforce 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 ? ?? Cloud Foundry Yes ?? Cloud.com ? ? ?? itself Eucalyptus ? ? ?? itself fluid Operations ? ? ?? Nimbus ? ? ?? itself OnApp ? ? ?? itself OpenNebula ? ? ?? itself OpenQRM ? ? ?? itself OpenShift ? ?? Safe Swiss CloudKubernetes Cloud at safeswisscloud.com OpenStack Safe Swiss CloudOpen Cloud at safeswisscloud.com
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