Points Considered
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AWS
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GCP
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Winner
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| Geographical presence |
Almost present in all continents.
9-regions 42-edge locations |
GCE(Google Compute Engine) is present only in US and Europe.
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AWS
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Regions and availability zones
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9-regions
25 AZs
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2-regions
4 AZs |
AWS
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VM types and families
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23-instance types classified in 6 families
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It has 12 machine types classfied into 5 families
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AWS
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Vritual Compute Units
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Roughly equivalent to 1.2GHz 2007 Xeon/Opteron processor
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Same as AWS
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Both
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Choice of OS
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Supports
Linux, CentOS, Debian, SUSE, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 |
Supports CentOS, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
No support for Microsoft Windows Server. |
AWS
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Purchasing Options
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Can be bought on-demand, reserved and spot purchasing plans
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Only supports on-demand.
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AWS
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Billing Model
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Instance by hour and partial hours are rounded of to an hour
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GCE machines are charged a minimum of 10 minutes. After that instances are charged in 1 minute increments, rounded up to the nearest
minute.
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GCE
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Persistance Storage
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Amazon supports PIOPS(Provisioned Input Output Operations per Second) for EBS(Elastic Block Storage).
Each EBS volume can be attached to only one instance at a time. |
It Supports persistent desks support upto 10 TB. Disks can be mounted read-write by one instance or read-only by many instance.
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GCE
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VM import and export
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Amazon EC2 supports importing and exporting of MS Vms created as VMDK, VHD and RAW formats. Linux is not Supproted
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It only supports importing the VM Running popular Linux distributions. It doesn't support Microsoft Windows.
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AWS in case of windows
GCE in case of Linux |
Services Avaialable
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Wider range of services available with quality.
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Services are less as compare to AWS
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AWS
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Load Balancing
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AWS Load Balancer needs pre-warning
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GCE Load Balancer doesn't need any pre-warning
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GCE
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Ease of Use
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A bit of time consuming as per user experience.
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Cleaner Interface and management console
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CGE
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