Comparison Amazon or Elastic Host
- Comparison
- Amazon
- ElasticHosts
- Pricing
- In general, more expensive than EH
- In general, cheaper than Amazon EC2
- Persistent Storage
- Yes through EBS.
- Yes by default.
- Flexibility (Virtual Machine Size and Operating System)
- 8 fixed instance sizes. Not all OSs supported.
- Complete control over virtual server resources and OS.
- Number of Regions
- 5 - US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Northern California), EU (Ireland), APAC (Singapore)
- 3 - London Peer1, London Bluesquare, San Antonio Texas
- Availability Zones(*) within Regions
- Yes
- No
- Advanced Services (Autoscaling, Load Balancing, Cloud Monitoring)
- Yes
- Not integrated. If needed you need to setup on your own.
- VNC Access from BIOS onwards (**)
- No
- Yes
- Virtualization Platform
- Xen
- Linux KVM
- (*) Availability Zones are distinct locations that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same Region.
- (**) Allows you to install, configure and recover your operating system.
- Comparison
- High Availability
- File Synchronization (*)
- Database Replication (**)
- Load Balancing (***)
- Server Roles Splitting (iv)
- Basic and Full Management Offered
- Pricing
- Basic
- No
- No
- No
- No
- Yes
- Yes
- Smallest Offered
- Professional
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- No
- Yes
- Middle ground
- Enterprise
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Highest Offered
- (*) To keep files (i.e. website files) synchronized between servers
- (**) To protect databases, keeping two exact copies of it.
- (***) To distribute incoming requests between web servers.
- (iv) Place each server role (i.e. web and database) in a different virtual server to increase performance and security. Place each server role (i.e. web and database) in a different virtual server to increase performance and security.