Cloudmarketplace » Cloud http://www.cloudmarketplace.eu showing you around the Cloud Marketplace Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:35:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 What exactly is a cloud service? http://www.cloudmarketplace.eu/2010/03/05/what-exactly-is-a-cloud-service/ http://www.cloudmarketplace.eu/2010/03/05/what-exactly-is-a-cloud-service/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:35:37 +0000 admin http://www.cloudmarketplace.eu/?p=39 Cloud computing has a lot of different meanings. It is used as a marketing instrument as well. Basically anything that can be sold ‘As A Service’ gets the cloud label. This includes:

  • Software as a service (SaaS)
  • Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
  • Platform as a service (PaaS)
  • Desktop as a service (DaaS)

So every software vendor that sells their software with a web interface suddenly becomes a Cloud operator, and taps in to the Cloud marketing buzz. Other companies are more careful and think about what they call a cloud and what the don’t call a cloud. IBM for example a has a policy where every initiative that wants to use ‘Cloud’ as a marketing sentence has to comply to the following principles:

  • A form of self service
  • Some element of virtualization and scalability
  • Worldwide availability
  • A Pay-as-you-use policy

Also the Open Cloud Manifesto establishes a core set of principles to ensure that organizations will have freedom of choice, flexibility, and openness as they take advantage of cloud computing. While cloud computing has the potential to have a positive impact on organizations, there is also potential for lock-in and lost flexibility if appropriate open standards are not identified and adopted.

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Standard On-Demand Instances Linux/UNIX Usage Windows Usage
Small (Default) $0.095 per hour $0.12 per hour
Large $0.38 per hour $0.48 per hour
Extra Large $0.76 per hour $0.96 per hour
High-Memory On-Demand Instances Linux/UNIX Usage Windows Usage
Extra Large $0.57 per hour $0.62 per hour
Double Extra Large $1.34 per hour $1.44 per hour
Quadruple Extra Large $2.68 per hour $2.88 per hour
High-CPU On-Demand Instances Linux/UNIX Usage Windows Usage
Medium $0.19 per hour $0.29 per hour
Extra Large $0.76 per hour $1.16 per hour

Standard Instances

Instances of this family are well suited for most applications.

Small Instance – default*

1.7 GB memory
1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit)
160 GB instance storage (150 GB plus 10 GB root partition)
32-bit platform
I/O Performance: Moderate
API name: m1.small

Large Instance

7.5 GB memory
4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each)
850 GB instance storage (2×420 GB plus 10 GB root partition)
64-bit platform
I/O Performance: High
API name: m1.large

Extra Large Instance

15 GB memory
8 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each)
1,690 GB instance storage (4×420 GB plus 10 GB root partition)
64-bit platform
I/O Performance: High
API name: m1.xlarge

High-Memory Instances

Instances of this family offer large memory sizes for high throughput applications, including database and memory caching applications.

High-Memory Extra Large Instance

17.1 GB of memory
6.5 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 3.25 EC2 Compute Units each)
420 GB of instance storage
64-bit platform
I/O Performance: Moderate
API name: m2.xlarge

High-Memory Double Extra Large Instance

34.2 GB of memory
13 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 3.25 EC2 Compute Units each)
850 GB of instance storage
64-bit platform
I/O Performance: High
API name: m2.2xlarge

High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large Instance

68.4 GB of memory
26 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual cores with 3.25 EC2 Compute Units each)
1690 GB of instance storage
64-bit platform
I/O Performance: High
API name: m2.4xlarge

High-CPU Instances

Instances of this family have proportionally more CPU resources than memory (RAM) and are well suited for compute-intensive applications.

High-CPU Medium Instance

1.7 GB of memory
5 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each)
350 GB of instance storage
32-bit platform
I/O Performance: Moderate
API name: c1.medium

High-CPU Extra Large Instance

7 GB of memory
20 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each)
1690 GB of instance storage
64-bit platform
I/O Performance: High
API name: c1.xlarge


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