Amazon EC2 vs Google Cloud Platform vs HP Cloud Compute

Elastic – Amazon EC2 enables you to increase or decrease capacity within minutes, not hours or days. You can commission one, hundreds or even thousands of server instances simultaneously.;Completely Controlled – You have complete control of your instances. You have root access to each one, and you can interact with them as you would any machine.;Flexible – You have the choice of multiple instance types, operating systems, and software packages. Amazon EC2 allows you to select a configuration of memory, CPU, instance storage, and the boot partition size that is optimal for your choice of operating system and application.;Designed for use with other Amazon Web Services – Amazon EC2 works in conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon SimpleDB and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) to provide a complete solution for computing, query processing and storage across a wide range of applications.;Reliable – Amazon EC2 offers a highly reliable environment where replacement instances can be rapidly and predictably commissioned. The Amazon EC2 Service Level Agreement commitment is 99.95% availability for each Amazon EC2 Region.;Secure – Amazon EC2 works in conjunction with Amazon VPC to provide security and robust networking functionality for your compute resources.;Inexpensive – Amazon EC2 passes on to you the financial benefits of Amazon’s scale. You pay a very low rate for the compute capacity you actually consume.;Easy to Start – Quickly get started with Amazon EC2 by visiting AWS Marketplace to choose preconfigured software on Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). You can quickly deploy this software to EC2 via 1-Click launch or with the EC2 console.

Open. Avoid vendor lock-in by using open source-based architecture and standards-based APIs.;Control. You have control of your instances and app development. Use root-level access to deploy applications, install required packages, and customize default security groups.;Reliable. Performance and reliability are backed by HP’s Service Level Agreement with at least 99.95% monthly availability.;Scalability. Scale on demand by adding or deleting instances as your workloads change. Deploy as many instances as you need to meet changing requirements.;Ease-of-Use. Stage your instances in a rich, intuitive dev environment. Select the instance type, the OS, and other parameters using HP’s intuitive management console. Streamline and simplify tasks using a command line interface (CLI), open APIs and common language libraries, including Ruby Fog, for programmatic interfaces.;Access. Access and manage your compute instances anywhere, anytime from any web-enabled device, including mobile phones.;Security. HP takes data security seriously. Our multi-layered security is built with industry-standard security practices and employs stringent policies to protect customer data. HP offers hardened, state-of-the-art secure facilities, identity management, multi-factor authentication, world-class intrusion prevention, and many more security best practices designed to preserve and protect your data.;Choice. Select your instance type based on the amount of memory, CPU, and storage needed. Choose the operating system required for your applications, selecting from many Linux distributions and Windows versions.

Scales automatically; No server management