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Do you want to host your data and/or application(s) at an IaaS provider? Good choice! By using an IaaS provider you’re able to use a cost-effective infrastructure without having to invest in your own hardware, maintenance and server rooms. And best of all; you only pay for the resources you actually use.
The past several years, we’ve seen an increasing shift from traditional hosting towards IaaS providers. IaaS stands for Infrastructure as a Service and it allows you to use secure, always-working and highly scalable infrastructure when you need it.
IaaS is the ideal solution for organizations with fluctuating demand. Implementing or changing required resources is in fact done in a jiffy and its pricing model, which is based on the consumption of resources, makes it financially attractive to move to an IaaS provider.
Prevent a cloud lock-in
Nobody wants to be dependent on one IaaS provider. In case you are dissatisfied with your current provider it’s a relief to be able to easily migrate to another provider. Migrating from one to another IaaS provider becomes easy when they’re using open source technology. IaaS providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are built on their own technology. This makes it difficult for a user to switch from infrastructure A to infrastructure B in the future. Fortunately, more and more ‘open’ IaaS platforms are being launched making it easier for organizations to move to an IaaS provider.
Choose OpenStack
A common technology used by open source minded IaaS providers is OpenStack; an open source cloud operating system backed by hundreds of organizations and thousands of contributors. Fuga Cloud is one of these IaaS providers that embraces OpenStack and uses this technology as its basis. This gives our users a sense of freedom. If desired, users of our IaaS platform can easily migrate to another IaaS provider that uses OpenStack technology.
Comparing IaaS providers
Now that you know more about the importance of open source in making your choice for an IaaS provider, you’re probably wondering how Fuga Cloud compares between IaaS providers like AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. With a simple case, we give you an overview of several IaaS providers you can choose from today. In this example, software developer We Make IT Work is looking for an IaaS solution for hosting their customers’ applications. For a start, a virtual server with 2 cores, 4096 MB RAM and 50 GB SSD disk space will suffice. In the example below, four virtual machines from 4 IaaS providers are compared. For the specs, we tried to stay as close to the desired configuration as possible.
Unlike AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, Fuga Cloud is 100% Dutch. We use Dutch data centers and your data is protected by Dutch and European privacy laws. Fuga Cloud customers aren’t affected by the Safe Harbor agreement or the new EU-US Privacy Shield, which hasn’t been ratified yet.
With Fuga Cloud, you comply with Dutch and European legislation and privacy policies on the protection of your own and your customers’ data.
2. No vendor lock-in
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud are based on a self-built platform. Fuga Cloud is based on OpenStack, which is open source software. This allows you to easily migrate your data and applications to other OpenStack cloud providers, should you want to do so.
Choosing an open source solution prevents you from getting locked-in by the cloud platform you use, which is the case with Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. By using Fuga Cloud, you choose flexibility and freedom.
3. No additional costs
With Fuga Cloud, you can select the most suitable configuration for your needs and immediately know what it will cost. With AWS and Azure you pay for every IOPS (read and write) transaction; Fuga Cloud doesn’t charge for these unpredictable variables.
The only thing you have to pay for, apart from your configuration, is traffic.
