Anyone tried Alibaba's cloud: https://intl.aliyun.com/ ?
Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#62We just announced our bare metal cloud service at Oracle.
It's still new but pretty cool team and underlying tech.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
There's also https://www.cloudorado.com/
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#64We use Azure. In some aspects they're playing catch up but if you're a startup and can get into their bizspark program, there are a lot of benefits. They are also making a significant effort to open their platform to Linux, Docker and other cloud technologies beyond Windows.
>In some aspects they're playing catch up
And it some aspects, they are way ahead. Analytics is one of those examples.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#65Google cloud - I have recently been working on setting up our company's entire infrastructure on google cloud and we were up and running in no time (very happy currently).
- Great pricing
- Great API (command line, REST)
- Nearly perfect documentation
- Awesome support (I had requested to allow more static ip addresses to be reserved and they resolved my ticket in less than 4 hours)
- Very intuitive interface
They give you $300 free credits before setting up billing account for you to try the entire cloud for free. You can play around with google cloud with up to 8 VMs
They also have App engine and Container engine to manage your applications / containers at scale.
Other simple cloud features include - storage buckets, snapshots, VPNs etc.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#66The 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)
Google is not as general as AWS and therefore has serious vendor lockin. Azure only recently has decided to support docker and is not rooted in opensource. The big downside of AWS: to difficult to use for many. It seems to me a new entrant which combines easy of use, embraces opensource, would have a good chance in the market. + Rackspace. But like many these don't come from the cloud market and still think in terms…
You are thinking of Google App Engine. You want Google Computer Engine: https://cloud.google.com/compute/
"Google Compute Engine delivers virtual machines running in Google's innovative data centers and worldwide fiber network."
Azure is the other major option.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#67One easy alternative to AWS is just shovelling your cash directly onto a bonfire. However, if you care about the actual server bit, Rackspace have their 'hybrid' cloud offers. There's a small but well-thought-of company in the UK called Bytemark who have a cloud offering but I doubt it qualifies as having a global footprint.
AWS is just meeting the needs of the startup community, like the monthly box subscription website who believes they have the same engineering problems as Netflix.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#68Exoscale sits in the middle between AWS and Digital Ocean. It has a much narrower catalog than that of AWS but essential services needed to drive cloud application.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#69Google has all the exact same offerings as AWS. The IaaS part is called GCE (Google Compute Engine): https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing Given all your comments in this thread. You seem to struggle quite a lot to understand the market and you didn't clarify what you want to achieve (how many servers do you have now? how many applications do you run? how many dev? how big is your company?) So forgive me for think…
Or he can use something like Heroku.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#70I work as a SysAdmin / DevOps and I tried many of the ones which were mentioned so far. Here is my summary. I'll skip AWS as everyone is familiar with it at this point.
Digitalocean - very friendly UI with lots of options to spin quickly virtual machines, in many different regions. Some options for backups, etc, but not much on top. They have an API that could allow you to setup orchestration though, which is pretty cool. For a small to medium shop, it should be fine.
OVH - similar story as DO, except they have a bigger network and also offer a wide range of dedicated servers. They seem to be more EU centric but also have a Canadian DC. Their 'child' services kimsurfi and soyoustart offer very affordable dedicated server options, targeted at people doing minor projects and gaming rigs. They also run runabove.com, which is their 'lab' project - here they used to offer power8 VMs, etc.
Hetzner - cheap dedicated servers in Europe. Recently added DDOS protection. They have a 'marketplace' where u can bid on dedicated servers and thus avoid initial setup costs.
Leaseweb - also pretty good, they have a range of products similar to OVH (dedicated servers, VPS, cloud, etc).
Haven't used GCE yet unfortunately, but I heard good things about it. Seems to be the only real direct contender to AWS at this point.