Nguyen Huynh
3/25/2016
NT1310
Unit 2 Lab Portion

Amazon EC2 is a virtual server hosting. It is mostly for web designer that provides a really big compute capacity for your server. EC2 lets you create website with an easy options that it has. It is design for developers to maintain the server with ease, very lenient for them with all the tools that it has. You can try EC2 for free, but after the free time period, you pay what you use. There is no minimum fee, for instance if you use 750 hours of EC2 running Microsoft windows server t2.micro it would cost about $0.013 per hour. This EC2 does not have a long term commitments or upfront payment, like I said you pay what you use. You can increase of decrease the amount of space and time that you used.

Google is another solution for cloud businesses. It offers great prices just like amazon also with great performance. I like google a lot, I’m sure a lot of people does too. It’s almost similar to Amazon pricing, you pay for what you have used. There is no lock in contracts required. They have a special which is called automatic discounts where you can save money by matching whatever machine you want for workload. Their storage space is very durable and highly recommended. The standard speed is 99.9% ms at $0.0026, DRA 99% ms at $0.02 and Nearline is 99% sec at $0.01. Its low cost with minimum fee, google cloud storage capacity pricing is the most effective in the market, with the cheapest rates for developers and companies.

Rackspace is one of the largest manage cloud provider in the world. It is partnered with amazon web service, Microsoft cloud and openstack cloud. Rackspace has high performance SSD servers ready to use in under a minute, everything is fast and very reliable, easy to use also and grow, manage at the same time. It has many storages like cloud networks, cloud CDN, autoscale, cloud backup, cloud monitoring, cloud databases, rackconnect and many more. Pricing for Rackspace is very expensive, they do not have a quote on their website, and if you want service you would have to call them.

Basically these cloud storages are mostly for IT developers and huge companies who are looking set up a storage data. If I was to choose between the 3 providers I would go with Google, since google is well known and the price is very affordable. There is no contracts and no commitment to anything. The speed is very fast with a large cloud drive with great speed.