This post is about a glimpse of various cloud technologies with the features and a bit about pricing.
1. Amazon Cloud
| Features | ||
| 1 | Cloud computing | EC2 |
| 2 | Content delivery | Cloud front |
| 3 | Data storage | Simple DB Relation database service |
| 4 | Ecommerce | Fulfillment service |
| 5 | Messaging | Simple Queuing Service (SQS) Simple Notification Service |
| 6 | Networking | Virtual Private Cloud Elastic Load balancing |
| 7 | Payments and billing | Flexible Payment Service Dev pay |
| 8 | Storage | Simple Storage Service Elastic Block Storage |
| 9 | Web traffic | Alexa |
| 10 | Workforce | Mechanical turk |
Pricing
No minimum Fees.
Pricing is based on the type of service used. Billing is done in the terms of usage per hour, data in/out.
Reserved instances carry a one time fee.
Pricing is different based on the base OS(windows machines carry higher charges)
Pricing differs region to region
2. Windows Azure Platform
| 1 | Instance | Windows Azure |
| 2 | Data Storage | SQL Azure |
| 3 | Connecter | App Fabric |
Pricing
Option of various packages depending upon the requirement (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers/)
3.Salesforce Force.com Platform
Provides a platform as a service.
| 1 | Data storage | S-Objects |
| 2 | Custom code | Apex |
| 3 | UI | Visualforce/ Point an click UI creation |
Pricing
Pricing is based on the edition of the salesforce. Cost is per month per edition
4. Google App Engine
Platform allows development of application on Python or Java. A hosted server is provided where th applications can be deployed. A free developer version is also available
| 1 | Datastorage | Big table (Provides Some JPA Features) |
| 2 | Custom code | Java/Python |
| 3 | UI | J2EE options (JSP , Freemarker etc) |
Pricing is based on number of users. 8$ per user up to 1000$ max.
5. Heroku
Heroku is a ruby on rails based cloud.
| 1 | DataStorage | many DB supported |
| 2 | Coding | Ruby on Rails |
Pricing is based on following parameters (http://heroku.com/pricing):
Database (storage)
Dynos (Http backend queue)
Workers (Background processes)
6. Wolf Frameworks
Provides a point and click for the UI creation.
Programming is based on C# and .Net environment. For database support there is a choice of MySQL and SQLServer.
Pricing (http://www.wolfframeworks.com/pricing.asp) is based on different packs like starter, standard, professional etc. Each pack has a limit on users, data storage, application , support etc.
