The best cloud computing Provider - a comparison
Many small and large providers are active in the cloud computing market. However, the services and prices offered are very different. In this guide we have summarized the best Cloud Computing providers.
Some market giants and many small suppliers
A number of suppliers with big names have emerged on the market. They offer a comprehensive price-performance spectrum and are naturally convincing due to their seriousness, their range of services and their experience. The smaller providers have a somewhat harder time, but should not be disregarded, especially since some of them have quite interesting features in their portfolio.
The best known cloud computing providers
Amazon is probably the best known and best cloud computing provider. The market giant can look back on years of experience in the field of web hosting and offers interesting incentives. Under the name Amazon Web Services (AWS), the company provides its IT infrastructure to the customer. This can be combined in any way and adapted according to the wishes. This concentrated power is fed from the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to which a gigantic network is connected. Customers only pay for the services they actually use. Billing is based on time, so only a few cents are charged for an hour of Linux. Amazon is constantly expanding its portfolio, so that in addition to Linux also Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server are to be integrated. This will allow Amazon to further expand its dominant position in the market. With an availability of 99.95 percent, Amazon is right at the top of our ranking.
Salesforce as a pioneer
While Amazon tends to offer cloud computing services as an add-on service, Salesforce specialized in this early on. The American company offers a complete infrastructure on which customers can develop their services. The service is particularly user-friendly and has been optimized for the Internet so that every user can quickly find his way around. Especially medium-sized and large companies use the provider's many years of experience to develop various user interfaces for end devices on the platform. Customers have already designed more than 60,000 applications, and thanks to Web 2.0 technology this is also possible for laymen without any problems.
Microsoft is closing in on
Around Microsoft, things had been rather quiet in the past regarding cloud computing. This has now changed fundamentally as the company is fully committed to the technology of the future with its Azure Services Platform and OneDrive. Azure has a similar structure to Amazon's EC2 and uses "Windows Server" as the implementation layer. Numerous web services such as SQL have made Microsoft more popular with users. In terms of financing, Microsoft uses a special, sophisticated billing model based on storage space, data volume and computing time. Cloud models will displace licensed software from the market in the future; Microsoft has already taken a big step with its Cloud Computing Services.
Other well-known and smaller providers have established themselves
As the operator of large computer farms, including in America, Deutsche Telekom enables companies to outsource their technology to the clouds. This allows them to save massively on costs because they no longer have to operate their own servers. Walldorf-based SAP also offers a comprehensive cloud computing service, with customers' software outsourced to the data centre. An up-and-coming provider is Rackspace Hosting, which impresses with its highly customizable cloud. Server centers in London, Dallas, and Chicago allow for maximum stability. Private users can't get around Dropbox: In minutes, documents, photos and other files can be swapped out to the cloud and quickly accessed on other PCs, smartphones or tablets. Dropbox's user interface is set up to be particularly user-friendly. Also Apple has been able to establish itself in the cloud market. After MobileMe and Mac Mail led to the hoped-for success, the iCloud provides users with a powerful instrument for storing music files or documents, among other things.
