IT Engineer

Sean Carroll

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Yes, Azure was another we looked at. &nbsp;Forgot to mention this in the original post.
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Yes, Azure was another we looked at.  Forgot to mention this in the original post.

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May I ask what you mean by &quot;overkill&quot;? Amazon's services seem to be pretty cheap.
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May I ask what you mean by "overkill"? Amazon's services seem to be pretty cheap.

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Depends on monthly budget.<br />
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For example, If you slice up a physical machine into other physical machines using LXD + VirtualBox + Windows, then your monthly cost is only monthly machine lease, as LXD + VirtualBox are free.
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Depends on monthly budget.

For example, If you slice up a physical machine into other physical machines using LXD + VirtualBox + Windows, then your monthly cost is only monthly machine lease, as LXD + VirtualBox are free.

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I am looking for alternatives to AWS for cloud hosting.<br />
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We have a smaller client that is looking to move 3 Windows virtual machines to a cloud hosted solution, so AWS may be overkill.<br />
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We are also looking at Rackspace and US Signal as alternatives.<br />
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Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
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Sean
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I am looking for alternatives to AWS for cloud hosting.

We have a smaller client that is looking to move 3 Windows virtual machines to a cloud hosted solution, so AWS may be overkill.

We are also looking at Rackspace and US Signal as alternatives.

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Sean

Alternatives to AWS

Cloud computing, also known as on-demand computing, is a kind of Internet-based computing where shared resources and information are provided to computers and other devices. It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. Cloud computing and storage solutions provide users and enterprises with various capabilities to store and process their data in third-party data centers, relying on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale.

Cloud Computing

This topic area includes legacy versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000: Windows 3/3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98, plus any other Windows-related versions including Windows Mobile.

Windows OS

Amazon Web Services (AWS), is a collection of remote computing services, also called web services, that make up a cloud-computing platform  operated from 11 geographical regions across the world. The most central and well-known of these services include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as "EC2", and Amazon Simple Storage Service, also known as "S3". Other services include Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Route 53 (a DNS web service),  provides a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), storage, database, deployment and application services.

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying and managing applications and services through datacenters. It provides both platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) services and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems. Cloud Services is a PaaS environment and can be used to create scalable applications and services; there are specific software development kits (SDKs) provided by Microsoft for Python, Java, Node.js and .NET. Azure also has file and storage services, data management, analytics and DNS services.