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The following is a comparison of [[Cloud computing|cloud-computing]] software and providers.

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! Provider

! Rank <small>of parent ___domain</small>

! Launched

! Block storage

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! SMTP support

! IOPS <small>Guaranteed minimum</small>

! [[Computer security|Security]]

! [[List of ISO 3166 country codes|Locations]]

! Notes

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| [[Google Cloud Platform]]

| {{sort|0000001|1}}<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cloud.google.com cloud.google.com] at Alexa</ref>

| 2013

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}<ref>[https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail/ SMTP] at googleGoogle compute</ref>

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}<ref>[https://cloud.google.com/security Security, Privacy, and Cloud Compliance | Google Cloud]</ref>

| us, jp, cn, be, uk, de, au, in, br, sg, fi

| br, ca, cl, us, be, ch, de, es, fi, it, po, nl, uk, il, au, cn, in, jp, sg, id, tw<ref>[https://cloud.google.com/about/locations Global Locations - Regions & Zones | Google Cloud]</ref>

| Mandatory components use up to 12% of RAM.<ref>https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-packages/issues/797</ref>

| SMTP blocked.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail/|title = Sending email from an instance &#124; Compute Engine Documentation}}</ref>

|-

|[[Oracle Cloud#Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS)|Oracle Cloud Infrastructure]]

| {{sort|0000420|420}}<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/go.oracle.com go.oracle.com] at Alexa</ref>

| 2014

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}<ref>[https://www.oracle.com/security/cloud-security/ Cloud Security Services]</ref>

|us, ca, br, de, uk, nl, ch, in, aus, jp, kr, saud

|

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| [[Amazon Web Services]]

| {{sort|0000006|6}}<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/aws.amazon.com aws.amazon.com] at Alexa</ref>

| 2006

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{partial}}<ref>[https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ec2-port-25-throttle/ Restriction on port 25] at AWS</ref>

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}<ref>[https://aws.amazon.com/security/ AWS Cloud Security]</ref>

| {{yes}}

| us, ca, br, ie, de, uk, cn, sg, au, jp, kr, in, za, fr, se, bh, hk, it, id

| List of bugs<ref>[https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-aws/+bugs Amazon bugs] at Ubuntu</ref>

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| [[IBM Cloud]]

| {{sort|0000610|610}}<ref>[https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ibm.com ibm.com] at Alexa</ref>

| 2005

| {{yes}}

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| {{no}}<ref>[https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/email-delivery?topic=email-delivery-email-delivery-faw SMTP] at IBM</ref>

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}<ref>[https://www.ibm.com/cloud/security Security for IBM Cloud]</ref>

| us, gb, fr, de, nl, in, au, hk, kr, it, jp, no, sg

|

|-

| [[Microsoft Azure]]

| {{sort|0000040|40}}<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/azure.microsoft.com azure.microsoft.com] at Alexa</ref>

| 2010

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}<ref>[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/troubleshoot-outbound-smtp-connectivity SMTP] at Azure</ref>

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}<ref>[https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/fundamentals/overview Introduction to Azure security] at Azure</ref>

| ca, us, br, ie, nl, de, uk, cn, au, jp, in, kr, sg, hk, za

| ca, us, br, ie, nl, de, uk, cn, au, jp, in, kr, sg, hk, za, id

| List of bugs<ref>[https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-azure/+bugs Azure bugs] at Ubuntu</ref>

|-

| [[GoDaddy]]

| {{sort|0000187|187}}<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/GoDaddy.com GoDaddy.com] at Alexa</ref>

| 2016

| {{no}}

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| {{no}}

| {{yes}}<ref>[https://www.godaddy.com/web-security/website-security Website Security - Protect Your Site with GoDaddy]</ref>

|

|

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| [[vCloud]]

| {{sort|0001763|1,763}}<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/vcloud.vmware.com vcloud.vmware.com] at Alexa</ref>

| 2008

| {{yes}}

|

|

| {{no}}

| us, jp, uk, de, au

|

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| [[Rackspace]]

| {{sort|0001819|1,819}}<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.rackspace.com www.rackspace.com] at Alexa</ref>

| 1998

| {{partial}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}<ref>[https://www.rackspace.com/security Cloud Security & Cybersecurity Solution]</ref>

| us, au, hk

| root volume is a fixed size

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| [[OVH]]

| {{sort|0004142|4,142}}<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ovh.com ovh.com] at Alexa</ref>

| 1999<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wtop.com/business-finance/2016/10/french-firm-to-open-1st-us-data-center-in-fauquier-co/|title=French firm to open 1st US data center in Fauquier Co.|last=Clabaugh|first=Jeff|date=2016-10-06|website=[[WTOP-FM|WTOP]]|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016043217/https://wtop.com/business-finance/2016/10/french-firm-to-open-1st-us-data-center-in-fauquier-co/|archive-date=2019-10-16|access-date=2019-10-16}}</ref>

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://docs.ovh.com/gb/en/emails/web_hosting_an_overview_of_ovh_email/|title=Getting started with an MX Plan solution {{!}} OVH Guides|last=|first=|date=2019-11-26|website=[[OVH]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20191127004657/https://docs.ovh.com/gb/en/emails/web_hosting_an_overview_of_ovh_email/|archive-date=2019-11-27|access-date=2019-11-26}}</ref>

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}<ref>[https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/security/ Network security and application protection | OVHcloud]</ref>

| au, ca, de, fr, gb, pl, us, sg<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://us.ovhcloud.com/about/company/data-centers|title=About OVH - Data Centers {{!}} OVHcloud|last=|first=|date=2019-11-26|website=[[OVH]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20191127002408/https://us.ovhcloud.com/about/company/data-centers|archive-date=2019-11-27|access-date=2019-11-26}}</ref>

|

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| [[Atlantic.Net]]

| {{sort|0033490|33,490}}<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.atlantic.net www.atlantic.net] at Alexa</ref>

| 2010

| {{no}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}<ref>[https://www.atlantic.net/pci-compliant-hosting/pci-security-services/ PCI Security Services]</ref>

| us, uk, ca

|

|-

| [[Online SAS|Scaleway]]

| [[Online SAS|Scaleway]]<ref>[https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/02/scaleway-now-provides-crazy-cheap-virtual-private-servers-starting-at-3-40-per-month/ scaleway] in the news as IaaS</ref>

| {{sort|0016304|16,304}}<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/scaleway.com scaleway.com] at Alexa</ref>

| 2016

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}<ref>[https://www.scaleway.com/en/faq/why-can-i-not-send-any-email/ SMTP] at Scaleway</ref>

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}<ref>[https://www.scaleway.com/en/security-and-resilience/ Our certifications & security]</ref>

| fr, nl

|

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| [[Alibaba Cloud]]

| {{sort|0000129|129}}<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/alibaba.com alibaba.com] at Alexa</ref>

| 2009

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}<ref>[https://www.alibabacloud.com/solutions/security Cloud Security]</ref>

| cn, hk, sg, au, my, id, in, jp, us, de, uk, ae

|

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| [[Hetzner|Hetzner Cloud]]

| {{sort|0026909|26,909}}<ref>[https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/hetzner.com hetzner.com] at Alexa</ref>

|

| {{yes}}

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|

| {{yes}}<ref>[https://docs.hetzner.com/konsoleh/storage-share/faq/security/ Security]</ref>

| de, fi

| de, fi, us, sg

|

|-

| [[Safe Swiss Cloud]]

| {{sort|3286795|3,286,795}}<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/safeswisscloud.com safeswisscloud.com] at Alexa</ref>

| 2013<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/*/safeswisscloud safeswisscloud] at Internet Archive</ref>

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}<ref>[https://safeswisscloud.com/en/blog/category/it-security/ IT Security]</ref>

| ch

|

|-

| [[DigitalOcean]]

| 2016<ref>[https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/13/digitalocean-launches-block-storage-and-lets-you-store-terabytes-of-data/ DigitalOcean launches block storage and lets you store terabytes of data] at techcrunch</ref>

| {{sort|0003308|3,308}}<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/digitalocean.com digitalocean.com] at Alexa</ref>

| 2016<ref>[https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/13/digitalocean-launches-block-storage-and-lets-you-store-terabytes-of-data/ digitalocean block storrage] at techcrunch</ref>

| {{partial}}

| {{yes}}

| {{partial}}

|

| {{yes}}<ref>[https://www.digitalocean.com/security DigitalOcean's security pillars]</ref>

| sg, nl, uk, ca, de, in

| SMTP for accounts older than 60 days<ref>[https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/digital-ocean-firewall-blocking-sending-email?answer=40983 SMTP] policy at digitalocean</ref> but they use spam mandrillapp servers.<ref>[{{Cite web|url=https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist%3amail283.us4.mandrillapp.com]|title = Network Tools: DNS,IP,Email}}</ref> root volume is a fixed size.

|-

|Seevind Technologies

|5,210,704<ref>{{Cite news|date=October 4, 2021|title=Peachtree Corners, a 5G early adopter, signs cloud infrastructure partner|work=[[GCN]]|url=https://gcn.com/articles/2021/10/04/peachtree-corners-cloud.aspx}}</ref>

|2004

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|lk, sg, nl, uk, ca, us, de, in

|}

===SaaS (Software as a Service)===

==== General ====

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| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

|-

|-

! [[AppScale]]<ref>Urquhart, James (June 22, 2009). [http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-10270365-240.html "The new generation of cloud-development platforms."] [http://news.cnet.com CNET News]. Accessed November 2011.</ref>

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! [[Cloud.com]] / CloudStack<ref>Harris, Derrick Harris (October 22, 2010). [http://gigaom.com/cloud/microsoft-joins-openstack-to-add-hyper-v-support/ "Microsoft Joins OpenStack to Add Hyper-V Support."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803204346/https://gigaom.com/2010/10/22/microsoft-joins-openstack-to-add-hyper-v-support/ |date=2021-08-03 }} [http://gigaom.com Gigaom.com]. Accessed November 2011.</ref>

| 2010-05-04

| [[Apache license]]

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| 2008-05-29

| [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]], [[GPL v3]]

| Java, C

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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! [[Flexiant Limited]]<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Info-Tech Research Group|date=October 24, 2012|url=http://www.infotech.com/research/ss/it-vendor-landscape-cloud-management/|title=Vendor Landscape: Cloud Management|accessdate=July 25, 2017}}</ref>

| 2007-01-15

| [[Proprietary software]]

| Java, C

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}

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! [[OpenStack]]<ref>{{cite book |last= Pepple |first= Ken |title= Deploying OpenStack |publisher= [[O'Reilly Media]] |date=August 2011 |isbn= 978-1-4493-1105-96}}</ref>

| 2010-10-21

| [[Apache License]]

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==== Supported hosts= ===

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| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}<ref>Poul Weiss [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRrNquHYGJs " Youtube.com install instruction for node cluster."] [https://www.youtube.com Youtube Video]. 12 October 2012.</ref>

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! [[Flexiant Limited]]

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

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! [[Nimbus (cloud computing)|Nimbus]]

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==== Supported guests v====

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| ?

| Any guest OS supported by Xen, KVM, or VMWare

|-

! [[Flexiant Limited]]

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| ?

| FreeBSD

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! [[Nimbus (cloud computing)|Nimbus]]

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! Provider

! Alexa<ref>Rank of parent ___domain</ref>

! Launched

! SaaS

|-

|[[Appian Corporation|Appian]]

|52,717<ref>{{Cite web|title=appian.com Competitive Analysis, Marketing Mix and Traffic - Alexa|url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/appian.com|access-date=2021-02-10|website=www.alexa.com}}</ref>

|1999

|

|-

|[[Cloud Foundry]]

|{{sort|0079327|79,327}}<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cloudfoundry.org www.cloudfoundry.org] at Alexa</ref>

|2011

|

|-

| [[CloudBees]]

| {{sort|0075404|75,404}}<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.cloudbees.com www.cloudbees.com] at Alexa</ref>

| 2010

| Java, JRails and Grails, Jenkins

|-

| [[Computer Sciences Corporation]]

| {{sort|0021045|21,045}}<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.csc.com www.csc.com] at Alexa</ref>

|

|

|-

| [[Engine Yard]]

| {{sort|0046958|46,958}}<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/engineyard.com engineyard.com] at Alexa</ref>

| 2006

|

|-

|[[Heroku]]

|{{sort|0007464|7,464}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/heroku.com|title=heroku.com Site Overview|website=www.alexa.com|access-date=2016-04-25}}</ref>

|2008

|[[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[Node.js]], [[Scala (programming language)|Scala]], [[Clojure]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]], [[PHP]], and [[Go (programming language)|Go]].

|-

|[[Oracle Cloud#Platform as a Service (PaaS)|Oracle Cloud Platform]]

|{{sort|0000351|351}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/oracle.com|title=Oracle.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa|website=www.alexa.com|language=en|access-date=2018-07-31}}</ref>

|2014

|

|-

| [[PythonAnywhere]]

| {{sort|010910|10,910}}<ref>[https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.pythonanywhere.com www.pythonanywhere.com] at Alexa</ref>

| 2012

| [[Python (programming language)|Python]]

|-

|[[Salesforce.com|Salesforce App Cloud]]

|{{sort|0000150|150}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/salesforce.com|title=Salesforce.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa|website=www.alexa.com|language=en|access-date=2018-07-31}}</ref>

|

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! Software

! [[Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud|Amazon EC2]]

! [[Rackspace Technology|Rackspace]]

! [[GoGrid]]

! [[VK (company)|Mail.Ru]] (MCS)

! Other

|-

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|?

| itself

|-

! [[Flexiant Limited]]

| ?

| ?

| ?

|?

| Itself

|-

! [[fluid Operations]]