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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?

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Post by vgt »

mrep wrote: post #39
vgt wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aw well here ya go then! https://cloud.google.com/docs/compare/aws/

Wow, thank you. Albeit, that only shows google's matchings to AWS, but AWS has like 60 services. I would also like to be able to breakdown the services to see comparisons in things like SLA's and pricing but this is a good start.

Ah this old thing? :)

https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/

Yes, tough to cover it all. I believe Azure has a similar "Azure to AWS" comparison. The GCP one is built by folks expertly familiar with AWS and tried to be as factual as possible.

I've previously collected a bunch of Google Cloud customer stories here (not Google PR - customers):

https://www.medium.com/google-cloud/i-think-google-cloud-is-...

Happy to answer any questions!

(obv. biased and work on Google Cloud)

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?

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Post by lwhalen »

Profitbricks, Rackspace, hosting it yourself on an Openstack cluster, etc. There are really a glut of 'cloud providers' out there, you just have to do the footwork of defining your needs and then finding one that meets most of them. Alternatively you could hire a consultant (hi!) to assist you, if you'd prefer to stay focused on the business side of things.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?

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Post by smtt »

Depends on your exact needs and such but I really like Heroku, it doesn't have as much as AWS or GCE but it has some nice benefits like good monitoring/stats, very cool pipelines system and super easy scaling

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?

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Post by tafda »

mrep wrote: post #32
tshtf wrote: post #6

Google has far more than App Engine today; they basically compete with AWS directly service by service.

I would love a direct service to service comparison between the major cloud providers. Anyone know of a guide like that?

Available service, SLA, and region comparison for AWS, Google, Azure and Softlayer at a fairly high level:

http://cloudcomparison.rightscale.com

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?

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Post by bArray »

Jaepa wrote: post #29

There are a couple options, but it kind of depends on what you want. There is Openstack, which is a collections of IaaS provider with connected with an API. Digitial Ocean & Vultr which you already know about. GCE mentioned else where here. Linode, while not feature rich is the 2nd largest VPS provider. Azure, which is Microsoft's IaaS. Which I've always had some reservations about, but have actually subcontracted ma…

Just signed up to Scalaway. Being in France is pretty neat as it's close to the UK so I understand their law. Currently running an AWS nano instance but I think I'm paying too much for it. Unfortunately it seems as though they are out of the C1 instances.

Thanks for the heads up!

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?

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Post by doublerebel »

znpy wrote: post #7
jburwell wrote: post #2

The following are a few alternatives off the top of my head: * Google Compute Engine * Microsoft Azure * Joyent * IBM BlueMix * Linode (like DigitalOcean more VPS than cloud provider)

I think that Joyent does not get the coverage it deserves. SmartOS looks very very cool.

Joyent is fantastic. SmartOS has every feature a Linux user wants in (and usually ends up hacking onto) a cloud server but it's built that way from the ground up.

Their support and engineering staff are friendly and responsive by email and IRC.

The instances have great performance and uptime.

I suppose globally they could use more data centers but Samsung's acquisition should help with that.

I've built multiple companies in Joyent and can't imagine going back to other clouds with less features.

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