Amazon Web Services
After working in the cloud for about two years I have a number of thoughts about some key vendors. Each vendor is different and there is no outright winner.
Here goes for Amazon:
Pros:
- Most advanced set of Cloud features in the industry
- Largest choice of RAM, Core, and Disk options
- Most flexibile hard disk solution (EBS)
- Pre-pay gives generous discounts (41%+)
- Fastest instance resize solution
- The one to beat
Cons:
- Zero free customer service
- Poor paid customer service
- They are still over priced
- A number of big outages over the last couple of years