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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Users can launch instances with a variety of OSs, load them with custom application environments, manage network access permissions, and run images on multiple systems.

    $0.01

    per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis

    OVHcloud Public Cloud

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AOVHcloud Public Cloud offers users a large number of cloud solutions that are billed on a pay-as-you-go basis. OVH states their infrastructure is set up in a simple way to enable businesses to harness the flexibility of on-demand resources to scale up from small projects to large-scale deployments.

    $0.05

    per hour

    Pricing
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)OVHcloud Public Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    Data Transfer
    $0.00 - $0.09
    per GB
    On-Demand
    $0.0042 - $6.528
    per Hour
    EBS-Optimized Instances
    $0.005
    per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis
    Carrier IP Addresses
    $0.005 - $0.10
    T4g Instances
    $0.04
    per vCPU-Hour Linux, RHEL, & SLES
    T2, T3 Instances
    $0.05 ($0.096)
    per vCPU-Hour Linux, RHEL, & SLES (Windows)
    Discovery
    $0.01
    Hour
    General Purpose
    $0.08
    Hour
    Compute Optimized
    $0.12
    Hour
    Memory Optimized
    $0.12
    Hour
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)OVHcloud Public Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Exact pricing depends on operating system (Windows/Linux), memory and storage size and network speed.
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)OVHcloud Public Cloud
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    Amazon AWS
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    24 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    25 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    26 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    21 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    25 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)OVHcloud Public Cloud
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and OVHcloud Public Cloud
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    9.5
    21 Ratings
    17% above category average
    OVHcloud Public Cloud
    8.8
    2 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.020 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.620 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.820 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates9.120 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Monitoring tools9.120 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images9.320 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Operating system support9.620 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Security controls9.820 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Automation9.610 Ratings9.02 Ratings
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    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)OVHcloud Public Cloud
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    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Enterprises
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    Score9.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)OVHcloud Public Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (67 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)OVHcloud Public Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    Suitable for companies that are looking for performance at a competitive price, flexibility to switch instance type even with RI, flexibility to add-on IOPS, option to lower running cost with the regular introduction of new instance type that comes with higher performance but at a lower cost.
    Incentivized
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    OVHcloud
    For demo uploads or for production uploads of companies from different sectors looking for a "general computing" cloud solution, I think that OVH can be a good provider. However, for more delicate or advanced loads or for specific solutions of, for example, AI, OVH has a wide margin for improvement.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Huge Diverse range of machine shapes are available which cater to our demand.
    • Ability to combine the machines and integrate them with any other service in AWS (Ex: RDS, S3)
    • Handling performance and scalability using auto-scaling, ELB configuration and high performance machine shapes.
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    OVHcloud
    • Price
    • Quality hardware
    • Quality network
    • Administrative tools
    • Range of products
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • The choices on AMIs, instance types and additional configuration can be overwhelming for any non-DevOps person.
    • The pricing information should be more clear (than only providing the hourly cost) when launching the instance. AWS DynamoDB gives an estimated monthly cost when creating tables, and I would love to see similar cost estimation showing on EC2 instances individually, as not all developers gets access to the actual bills.
    • The term for reserving instances are at least 12 months. With instance types changing so fast and better instances coming out every other day, it's really hard to commit to an existing instance type for 1 or more years at a time.
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    OVHcloud
    • Technical support
    • Account support
    • Billing support
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    You an start using EC2 instances immediately, is so easy and intuitive to start using them, EC2 has wizard to create the EC2 instances in the web browser or if you are code savvy you can create them with simple line in the CLI or using an SDK. Once you are comfortable using EC2, you can even automate the process.
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    OVHcloud
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    AWS's support is good overall. Not outstanding, but better than average. We have had very little reason to engage with AWS support but in our limited experience, the staff has been knowledgeable, timely and helpful. The only negative is actually initiating a service request can be a bit of a pain.
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    OVHcloud
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    Amazon EC2 is super flexible compared to the PaaS offerings like Heroku Platform and Google App Engine since with Amazon EC2, we have access to the terminal. In terms of pricing, it's basically just the same as Google Compute Engine. The deciding factor is Amazon EC2's native integration with other AWS services since they're all in the same cloud platform.
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    OVHcloud
    Most notably OVHcloud [Public Cloud] has dedicated servers which are a different breed of product than Linode's flagship VPS servers, the unfortunate fact of the matter is that OVHcloud [Public Cloud] can provide a fully-dedicated server at a lower price point than Linode's virtual server. Even worse than that is that with a dedicated server from [OVHcloud Public Cloud] there is zero chance of "cpu theft" (aka, noisy neighbor) which is a very real problem at Linode (we would require multiple migrations every year for servers hosted at Linode that were experiencing cpu theft). In addition to the improvement in quality for network/hardware at OVHcloud [Public Cloud] with their dedicated server offering, their VPS servers are also highly competitive against Linode's VPS servers - in the 2 years we've used OVHcloud [Public Cloud] VPS's we've had zero downtime associated with OVH actions such as host-node reboots or cpu theft or host node upgrades, a stark difference compared to Linode which regularly experiences those types of downtimes and many more on a very regular basis.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • It reduced the need for heavy on-premises instances. Also, it completely eliminates maintenance of the machine. Their SLA criteria are also matching business needs. Overall IAAS is the best option when information is not so crucial to post on the cloud.
    • It makes both horizontal and vertical scaling really easy. This keeps your infrastructure up and running even while you are increasing the capacity or facing more traffic. This leads to having better customer satisfaction.
    • If you do not choose your instance type suitable for your business, it may incur lots of extra costs.
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    OVHcloud
    • Cost of virtual servers was reduced by 20% versus other VPS/Cloud providers.
    • Cost of dedicated servers was reduced by 50% versus other dedicated server providers.
    • Network speeds decreased considerably versus other providers.
    • Network quotas improved considerably versus other providers (unlimited at OVH).
    • Uptime has improved considerably which has improved client reputation.
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    ScreenShots

    OVHcloud Public Cloud Screenshots

    Screenshot of the public cloud management interfaceScreenshot of job logsScreenshot of building a land zoneScreenshot of instance creation