Cloud Comparison
Architecture:
Developers have to build their Website, Developers can build their Website, Apps or
Apps and DBs like a multi-tier architecture DBs on any Linux OS and windows OS
from day one to achieve high availability. distribution. Full root/Admin access is
They need to scale each of the layer available for the DBs which work on Linux
independently. Database is available in the and Windows.
form of Instance with no Root/Admin
access.
Network Security:
SSL IPSEC only. Implement Software based In addition to software based network
Network Isolation. isolation, true MPLS option available for
highly secure Network connectivity.
Hardware Firewalls cannot be plugged into Hardware Firewall can be plugged into the
the network architecture. network architecture.
Provides multiple VPC via Self Service Portal. Provides multiple VPC under Managed
Support, not via Self Service Portal.
Microsoft Azure provides wide selection of eNlight provides a Great flexibility while
FIXED instance type. setting up a virtual machine instance.
These instances are fixed combination of In eNlight the virtual machine instance can
CPU, RAM, Storage and Network capacity. be customized as per the customer's
requirements.
Example : Example :
A0 1 vCPU, 0.75 GB RAM, 20 GB. VM1 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, EBS.
A1 1 vCPU, 1.75 GB RAM, 70 GB. VM2 4 vCPU, 3.75 GB RAM, EBS.
D1 1 vCPU, 3.5 GB RAM, 50 GB SSD. VM3 2 vCPU, 10 GB RAM, EBS.
D1 v2 1 vCPU, 3.5 GB RAM, 50 GB SSD. VM4 6 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, EBS.
Hypervisor:
Both Linux VM's and Windows VM's are Whereas in eNlight, Linux VM's are
provisioned on Microsoft Azure Hypervisor provisioned on Xen and Windows VM's are
which is a modified version of Hyper-V provisioned on Hyper-V 2012
hypervisor.
Scalability:
Resource scaling is very rigid and fixed, only Resources can be scaled up and down with
between defined instance types. high flexibility and agility.
Scaling means Horizontal scaling, which can Scaling happens on the fly, automatically
happen manually as well as automatically. and intelligently as per workloads.
Virtual Machine OS reboot required to scale Virtual machine scaling happens without
it vertically. reboot.
Database VMs dont scale in real time. Database VMs Scale in real time.
Billing Model:
Billing is based on per minute basis. Billing is based on per 5 minute slab basis.
Shutdown virtual machines are charged Shutdown virtual machine are charged only
unless they are specially deactivated via for disk utilization.
management portal.
Billing is Pay Per Allocation which is Billing is Pay Per Consume. Which
popularly known as Pay Per Use. significantly reduces overall cloud expenses.
Number of Datacentres:
There are three datacentre planned in India. There are Two datacentres located in India
Mahape, Mumbai (owned) and Satpur,
Nashik (owned)
There are 19 Data Centers out of India. There are 6 Tier Four DCs out of India
Maidenhead, Reading, Nottingham,
Manchester, UK (collocated), Chicago &
Montreal, USA (Collocated).
Miscellaneous Compression:
There are three different pricing models: We don't charge you for the assistance a
Developer $29 / month, Standard customer needs!
Customer $300 / month
Professional Direct $1,000 / month.
Initial response time depends upon support Initial response time is 15 minutes standard
plan with maximum 8 hours delay and for all types of customers.
maximum of 15 minutes delay only for
Premier customers.
SLAs are rigid and sometime fails to address SLAs are fully customizable and customers
criticality of the customers business and have their say in the SLA document.
Service requirements. Penalties are Penalties are accepted to the tune of 20% in
negligible and customers fail to get any kind case of downtime and security issues.
of compensation. Compensation is issued immediately in case
of SLA breach.