Comparison between Amazon web services (AWS) or Rackspace cloud servers?

amazon-web-services amazon-ec2 rackspace-cloud
Gagandeep Singh picture Gagandeep Singh · Jun 18, 2011 · Viewed 7k times · Source

There are two major offering of cloud computing environment by Amazon through AWS and by Rackspace through Rackspace cloud. I wanted to know more about What are cons/pros of one platform over other. That will help me in deciding platform for my future applications.

Answer

Rakesh Sankar picture Rakesh Sankar · Jun 20, 2011

Please see some of these links to better analyze & understand the difference between Amazon Cloud Server with Rackspace Cloud.

Things come into my mind:

  1. Amazon server stack has CHOICES possibly everything, but Rackspace server stack is fixed.
  2. Control everything on your server stack with Amazon but Rackspace - NOPE.
  3. You can play around with various services (EBS, EIP, S3, etc) in Amazon server to suite your price, you can't with Rackspace, since you are priced for the whole stack.
  4. In Amazon - single EBS AMI, you can have many different instance types of machine.

Difference:

http://www.distractable.net/tech/amazon-aws-ec2-vs-rackspace-high-level-comparison/

Goodby Rackspace:

http://code.mixpanel.com/amazon-vs-rackspace/

Performance Analysis:

http://www.thebitsource.com/featured-posts/rackspace-cloud-servers-versus-amazon-ec2-performance-analysis/

Related questions

Permission denied (publickey) when SSH Access to Amazon EC2 instance

I want to use my Amazon ec2 instance but faced the following error: Permission denied (publickey). I have created my key pair and downloaded .pem file. Given: chmod 600 pem file. Then, this command ssh -i /home/kashif/serverkey.pem ubuntu@…

Read More
Trying to SSH into an Amazon Ec2 instance - permission error

This is probably a stupidly simple question to some :) I've created a new linux instance on Amazon EC2, and as part of that downloaded the .pem file to allow me to SSH in. When I tried to ssh with: ssh …

Read More
Change key pair for ec2 instance

How do I change the key pair for my ec2 instance in AWS management console? I can stop the instance, I can create new key pair, but I don't see any link to modify the instance's key pair.

Read More