Comparison: GoGrid Cloud versus Amazon EC2 | GoGrid Blog

July 29, 2008

I found this nice comparison of GoGrid vs. Amazon EC2 on the GoGrid Blog:

Feature Comparison Matrix

Feature

GoGrid

Amazon EC2

Instant server deployment
YES
YES
Instant server network scaling
YES
YES
Linux
YES
YES
Static IP address
YES
YES
Windows Server 2003
YES
NO
Microsoft SQL Server
YES
NO
FREE 24/7 phone support
YES
NO
FREE persistent storage
YES
NO
FREE inbound data transfer
YES
NO
FREE hardware f5 load balancing
YES
NO
FREE managed DNS
YES
NO
FREE DoS protection
YES
NO
Service Level Agreement
YES
NO
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
YES
NO
Hardware VLAN segmentation
YES
NO
Multiple IP addresses per server
YES
NO
Standard server images
YES
NO
Volume discounts
YES
NO
Private IP addresses on separate VLAN
YES
NO

There are more comparisons tables on the blog entry linked above.

Entry Filed under: Cloud/Grid Computing, Virtual Computing, Web 2.0. .

3 Comments Add your own

  • 1. Edward M. Goldberg  |  July 30, 2008 at 8:09

    Could you add a column for RightScale Dashboard on top of AWS for me. I will help you if you need more info.

    With RightScale the field is more level for the two offers.

    We add back lots of the features that are missing from AWS.

    Ask me is you need help. The Web Site covers most of these questions.

    Edward M. Goldberg
    Ed@RightScale.com

    Reply
  • 2. Dirk  |  July 30, 2008 at 15:24

    Hi Ed,

    thanks for the feedback. I agree with you, only with RightScale the EC2 service becomes a real option for most users.

    See: http://hotware.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/a-short-cloud-hosting-link-list/

    I don’t know enough about RightScale though to be able to fill out the additional column correctly though.

    Reply
  • 3. Dirk  |  July 30, 2008 at 15:33

    Ed, one more question: Do you see any chance of easily hosting Windows systems on EC2?

    Reply

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