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The following is a comparison of cloud-computing software and providers.

IaaS (Infrastructure as a service)

Providers

General

Provider	Rank^[1]	Launched	Block storage	Assignable IPs	IOPS^[2]	Locations	Notes
Google Cloud Platform	1^[3]	2013	Yes	No	Yes	us, jp, cn, be, uk, de, au, in, br, sg	no PTR support
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure	420^[4]	2014	Yes		Yes
Amazon Web Services	6^[5]	2006	Yes	Yes	Yes	us, ca, br, ie, de, uk, cn, sg, au, jp, kr, in
Microsoft Azure	40^[6]	2010	Yes	Yes	Yes	ca, us, br, ie, nl, de, uk, cn, au, jp, in, kr, sg, hk
GoDaddy	187^[7]	2016	No		No
vCloud	1,763^[8]	2008	Yes		No	us, jp, uk, de, au
Rackspace	1,819^[9]	1998	Yes	No	No	us, au, hk
OVH	4,603^[10]	2010	Yes		Yes	ca, fr
SoftLayer	9,174^[11]	2005	Yes		Yes	us, nl, sg
Atlantic.Net	33,490^[12]	2010	No		No	us, uk, ca
Scaleway^[13]	48,347^[14]	2016	No		Yes	fr
CloudSigma^[15]	96,654^[16]	2009	Yes		Yes^[17]	us, de, au, pl, ph, ch
Auro^[18]^[19]	2,817,792^[20]		Yes		Yes^[21]	ca
vexxhost^[22]^[23]	237,344^[24]		No		No	ca
internap^[25]^[26]	233,359^[27]		Yes		No	us, uk, nl, sg

Software

General

Software	Initial release date	License(s)	Written in	As a service	Local installations
fluid Operations eCloudManager	2009-03-01	Proprietary	Java, Groovy	No	Yes
AppScale^[28]	2009-03-07	Apache License [1]	Python, Ruby, Go	Yes	Yes
Cloud Foundry	2011-04-12	Apache License	Ruby, C, Java, Go	Yes	Yes
Cloud.com / CloudStack^[29]	2010-05-04	Apache license	Java, C	Yes	Yes
Eucalyptus^[30]	2008-05-29	Proprietary, GPL v3	Java, C	Yes	Yes
Flexiant Limited^[31]	2007-01-15	Proprietary software	Java, C	Yes	Yes
Nimbus	2009-01-09	Apache License	Java, Python	Yes	Yes
OpenNebula^[32]	2008-03-??	Apache License	C++, C, Ruby, Java, Shell script, lex, yacc	Yes	Yes
OpenQRM^[33]	2008-03-??	GPL License	C++, PHP, Shell script	Yes	Yes
OpenShift^[34]	2011-05-04	Apache License	Go	Yes	Yes
OpenStack^[35]	2010-10-21	Apache License	Python	Yes	Yes
OnApp	2010-07-01	Proprietary	Java, Ruby, C++	Yes	Yes
oVirt	2012-08-09	Apache License	Java, Python	?	Yes
Jelastic	2011-01-27	GPL License, Apache License, BSD License	Java, JavaScript, Perl, Shell script	Yes	Yes

Supported hosts

Software	Linux	FreeBSD	Windows	Bare Metal
AppScale	?	?	?
Cloud Foundry	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Cloud.com / CloudStack	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Eucalyptus	Yes	No	No	Yes^[36]
Flexiant Limited	No	Yes	No	Yes
Nimbus	Yes	?	No	No
OpenNebula	Yes	No	?	No
OpenQRM	Yes	No	No	No
OpenShift	Yes	No	No	Yes
OpenStack	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
OnApp	Yes	No	No	Yes
oVirt	Yes	No	No	Yes

Supported guests

Software	Linux	Windows	VMware	Xen	KVM	VirtualBox	Docker	Other
fluid Operations	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	?
AppScale	?	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Cloud Foundry	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cloud.com / CloudStack	Yes	Yes^[37]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Eucalyptus	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	Any guest OS supported by Xen, KVM, or VMWare
Flexiant Limited	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	FreeBSD
Nimbus	Yes	?	?	Yes	Yes	?	?
OpenNebula	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Any guest OS supported by Xen, KVM, or VMWare
OpenQRM	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
OpenShift	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
OpenStack	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
OnApp	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	?	JumpBox, FreeBSD
oVirt	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	?
Jelastic	?	?	?	?	?	?	Yes	Parallels Virtuozzo Containers

PaaS (Platform as a service)

Providers

Provider	Alexa^[38]	Launched	SaaS
Cloud Foundry	79,327^[39]	2011
CloudBees	75,404^[40]	2010	Java, JRails and Grails, Jenkins
Computer Sciences Corporation	21,045^[41]
Engine Yard	46,958^[42]	2006
Heroku	7,464^[43]	2008	Ruby, Java, Node.js, Scala, Clojure, Python, PHP, and Go.
Oracle Cloud Platform	351^[44]	2014
Salesforce App Cloud	150^[45]

Providers on IaaS

PaaS providers which can run on IaaS providers ("itself" means the provider is both PaaS and IaaS):

Software	Amazon EC2	Rackspace	GoGrid	Mail.Ru (MCS)	Other
AppScale	Yes	?	?	?
Cloud Foundry	Yes	Yes	?	?
Cloudify	Yes	Yes	?	?	?
Cloud.com	?	?	?	?	itself
Eucalyptus	?	?	?	?	itself
Flexiant Limited	?	?	?	?	Itself
fluid Operations	?	?	?	?
Nimbus	?	?	?	?	itself
OnApp	?	?	?	?	itself
OpenNebula	?	?	?	?	itself
OpenQRM	?	?	?	?	itself
OpenShift	Yes	?	?	?
OpenStack	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

References

^ Rank of parent domain
^ Guaranteed minimum
^ cloud.google.com at Alexa
^ go.oracle.com at Alexa
^ aws.amazon.com at Alexa
^ azure.microsoft.com at Alexa
^ GoDaddy.com at Alexa
^ vcloud.vmware.com at Alexa
^ www.rackspace.com at Alexa
^ ovh.com at Alexa
^ softlayer.com at Alexa
^ www.atlantic.net at Alexa
^ scaleway in the news as IaaS
^ scaleway.com at Alexa
^ CloudSigma in the news
^ www.cloudsigma.com at Alexa
^ cloudsigma IOPS
^ Auro in the news
^ Auro at Openstack
^ auro.io at Alexa
^ Auro IOPS
^ vexxhost in the news
^ vexxhost at Openstack
^ vexxhost.com at Alexa
^ Internap in the news
^ internap at Openstack
^ internap.com at Alexa
^ Urquhart, James (June 22, 2009). "The new generation of cloud-development platforms." CNET News. Accessed November 2011.
^ Harris, Derrick Harris (October 22, 2010). "Microsoft Joins OpenStack to Add Hyper-V Support." Gigaom.com. Accessed November 2011.
^ Prickett Timothy M. (May 10, 2011). "Ubuntu eats OpenStack for clouds - Eucalyptus leaves." The Register. Accessed November 2011.
^ "Vendor Landscape: Cloud Management". Info-Tech Research Group. October 24, 2012. Retrieved 2017.
^ European Commission Expert Group Report (January 26, 2010). "The Future of Cloud Computing"
^ " OpenQRM Enterprise Architecture (February 24, 2010)
^ Schabell, Eric (December 2012). OpenShift Primer. Developer.Press.
^ Pepple, Ken (August 2011). Deploying OpenStack. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 1-4493-1105-9.
^ Poul Weiss " Youtube.com install instruction for node cluster." Youtube Video.12 Oct 2012.
^ "Apache CloudStack Features - Wide Range Guest VM OS Support".
^ Rank of parent domain
^ www.cloudfoundry.org at Alexa
^ www.cloudbees.com at Alexa
^ www.csc.com at Alexa
^ engineyard.com at Alexa
^ "heroku.com Site Overview". www.alexa.com. Retrieved .
^ "Oracle.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved .
^ "Salesforce.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved .

[1] Rank of parent domain

[2] Guaranteed minimum

[3] ud.google.com at Alexa

[4] .oracle.com at Alexa

[5] ws.amazon.com at Alexa

[6] zure.microsoft.com at Alexa

[7] GoDaddy.com at Alexa

[8] vcloud.vmware.com at Alexa

[9] www.rackspace.com at Alexa

[10] vh.com at Alexa

[11] softlayer.com at Alexa

[12] www.atlantic.net at Alexa

[13] scaleway in the news as IaaS

[14] scaleway.com at Alexa

[15] CloudSigma in the news

[16] www.cloudsigma.com at Alexa

[17] udsigma IOPS

[18] Auro in the news

[19] Auro at Openstack

[20] uro.io at Alexa

[21] Auro IOPS

[22] vexxhost in the news

[23] vexxhost at Openstack

[24] vexxhost.com at Alexa

[25] Internap in the news

[26] ternap at Openstack

[27] ternap.com at Alexa

[28] Urquhart, James (June 22, 2009). "The new generation of cloud-development platforms." CNET News. Accessed November 2011.

[29] Harris, Derrick Harris (October 22, 2010). "Microsoft Joins OpenStack to Add Hyper-V Support." Gigaom.com. Accessed November 2011.

[30] Prickett Timothy M. (May 10, 2011). "Ubuntu eats OpenStack for clouds - Eucalyptus leaves." The Register. Accessed November 2011.

[31] "Vendor Landscape: Cloud Management". Info-Tech Research Group. October 24, 2012. Retrieved 2017.

[32] European Commission Expert Group Report (January 26, 2010). "The Future of Cloud Computing"

[33] " OpenQRM Enterprise Architecture (February 24, 2010)

[34] Schabell, Eric (December 2012). OpenShift Primer. Developer.Press.

[35] Pepple, Ken (August 2011). Deploying OpenStack. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 1-4493-1105-9.

[36] Poul Weiss " Youtube.com install instruction for node cluster." Youtube Video.12 Oct 2012.

[37] "Apache CloudStack Features - Wide Range Guest VM OS Support".

[38] Rank of parent domain

[39] www.cloudfoundry.org at Alexa

[40] www.cloudbees.com at Alexa

[41] www.csc.com at Alexa

[42] yard.com at Alexa

[43] "heroku.com Site Overview". www.alexa.com. Retrieved .

[44] "Oracle.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved .

[45] "Salesforce.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved .

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IaaS (Infrastructure as a service)

Providers

General

Software

General

Supported hosts

Supported guests

PaaS (Platform as a service)

Providers

Providers on IaaS

See also

References

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