The ones that I noticed in my eval of rackspace 1) internal traffic between boxes at rackspace is on the public network unless you setup ipsec/ssl http://serv

The ones that I noticed in my eval of rackspace 1) internal traffic between boxes at rackspace is on the public network unless you setup ipsec/ssl http://serverfault.com/questions/184655/suggestions-for-vpn-solution-between-backend-servers http://serverfault.com/questions/184655/suggestions-for-vpn-... 2) Definite lack of firewalls and no deep packet inspection 3) No free micro tier for testing/dev Others: a) I don't like all the naming conventions of AWS - reminds me of Starbucks where a small is "tall" b) Neither seem to offer IDS out of the box and/or outgoing firewalls although one can set-up snort/sourcefire (AWS offers this) https://aws.amazon.com/solution-providers/isv/sourcefire https://aws.amazon.com/solution-providers/isv/sourcefire c) No two factor authentication services out of the box for application authentication(need to use yubikey/duo security)