Amazon VPC vs AppHarbor vs HP Cloud Compute

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.

You push .NET and Windows code to AppHarbor using Git, Mercurial, Subversion or Team Foundation Server with the complimentary Git service or through integrations offered in collaboration with Bitbucket, CodePlex and GitHub.;When AppHarbor receives your code it will be built by a build server. If the code compiles all unit tests contained in the compiled assemblies will be run. The result and progress of the build and unit test status can be monitored on the application dashboard. AppHarbor will call any service hooks that you add to notify you of the build result.;If everything checks out the application is deployed and configured on AppHarbor application servers. AppHarbor can scale an application vertically and horizontally within seconds for better request throughout, performance and failover. AppHarbor balance load across all instances running that application. Scaling an application gives higher request thoughput, redundancy in case of instance failure and better performance.

Create an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud on AWS's scalable infrastructure, and specify its private IP address range from any range you choose.;Divide your VPC’s private IP address range into one or more public or private subnets to facilitate running applications and services in your VPC.;Control inbound and outbound access to and from individual subnets using network access control lists.;Store data in Amazon S3 and set permissions such that the data can only be accessed from within your Amazon VPC.;Assign multiple IP addresses and attach multiple elastic network interfaces to instances in your VPC.;Attach one or more Amazon Elastic IP addresses to any instance in your VPC so it can be reached directly from the Internet.;Bridge your VPC and your onsite IT infrastructure with an encrypted VPN connection, extending your existing security and management policies to your VPC instances as if they were running within your infrastructure.