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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
The Amazon Compute Cloud, aka "EC2", is a server virtualization web service offered by Amazon in which users can create virtual server instances that exist on Amazon's computing infrastructure. Initially, launched as a beta service with support only for Linux-based server instances, EC2 has expanded to Windows Server 2003 support in mid-October 2008. Clients rent "Compute Units" on an hourly basis, and pay only for how long there server instances are turned on.
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- Small: 1 CPU, 1 Core 1.7 GB RAM, windows: $0.125/hr, linux: $0.100/hr
- Large: 4 CPU, 2 Cores, 7.5 GB RAM windows: $0.50/hr, linux $0.40/hr
- X-Large: 8 CPU, 4 Cores, 15 GB RAM windows: $1.00/hr, linux $0.80/hr
- Medium (high CPU): 5 CPU, 2 Cores, 1.7 GB RAM windows: $0.30/hr, linux $0.20/hr
- Large (high CPU): 20 CPU, 8 Cores, 7 GB RAM windows: $1.20/hr, linux $0.80/hr
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Pros
- Powered by the same computing power as Google's own apps
- Free service up to 5 million pageviews
- Zero startup costs to developing a web app (albeit if you have skills)
Cons
- Errors will be output if you exceed usage quotas
- Limited to Python or Java and Google's proprietary database interface
- Limited to Python for your development language and "Datastore" / "GQL" for your Database interactions
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Google App Engine
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Pros
- competing against Amazon leads to better costs for end users
- allows businesses to focus on their online services and content without worrying about hardware or software
- easy way to cut overhead costs, and scale without need for much notice
Cons
- end user cost will not be significantly lower, control will be restricted
- vapourwear - most exciting features are those most likely to be stripped by the end product
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Microsoft Windows Azure
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Pros
- Turns up-front fixed server costs into lesser variable costs
- Pay-only for what you use
- Web-based management console + Firefox add-on for server management
- Deploy servers using software - save tons of time
- Elastic Block Storage (EBS) off-instance storage volumes persist independently from the life of an instance
- Add more servers in the event of a one-off traffic spike to handle the load
- Now runs Windows 2K3
- Backups of hardware configurations using Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
- Elastic IP adresses can be programatically assigned to any server instance
- Excellent redundancy and failover protection
Cons
- Only two 32-bit server options - high-CPU not that powerful
- Can be more expensive on the small scale
- A learning curve to grasping the cloud computing concept
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