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This article hits the big points quite well. We recently switched from Rackspace to EC2 for exactly these reasons. A few more points: • Amazon has a much larg
by pat2man 15y ago
This article hits the big points quite well. We recently switched from Rackspace to EC2 for exactly these reasons.
A few more points:
• Amazon has a much larger network and you can use multiple availability zones.
• Amazon supports VPCs, allowing you to mix your cloud services with your old school servers.
• Amazon's CloudFront CDN allows you to use your own servers as a back end, not just static files.
• There are a wealth of third party tools available for Amazon that just aren't there (yet) for Rackspace.
- jarito 15y agoRackspace also supports the ability to combine Cloud and Physical servers. They call it Hybrid Hosting (http://www.rackspace.com/hosting_solutions/hybrid_hosting/ http://www.rackspace.com/hosting_solutions/hybrid_hosting/).
- krobertson 15y agoTheir hybrid offering still leaves a lot to be desired. They're more like two separate products, and even being on a sales call with them involved people from each team. It lacks a unified product experience.
- rsingel 15y agoRackspace's Cloudfiles has been fantastic for us - we spent about $60 to serve 300GB of images to over 40 million visitors last month. That's over the superior Akamai network. In contrast, Amazon Cloudfiles charges per 10K requests, while only bandwidth counts with Cloudfiles. If we'd been on Cloudfront, we'd have paid more than 5x as much.