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Pros
  • + Good range of hybrid capabilities (including VMware partnership)
  • + Baremetal Server options with cloud characteristics (hourly consumption)
  • + Competitive priced fully featured IAAS offerings
  • + Good datacentre coverage across Asia Pacific
  • + Rapid growth of services at competitive price
  • + Good data services and capabilities around AI/ML
Cons
  • - High performance networking, but limited capabilities
  • - Limited European and US datacentre footprint
  • - Fledgling hybrid capabilities based around Cisco partnership
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Ephraim Baron
Marius Sandbu
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Overview
Bluemix delivers virtual machines running in IBM Cloud data centers backed by a global private fiber network.
Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) provides fast memory and the latest Intel CPUs to help you achieve faster results with low latency to power your cloud applications.
Google Compute Engine delivers virtual machines running in Googles data centers and worldwide fiber network. Compute Engines tooling and workflow support enable scaling from single instances to global, load-balanced cloud computing.
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  Interfaces  
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UI / API / CL / SDK
Single UI : Various APIs / CLIs native to services. Differences between IAAS & PaaS environment
UI, API, CLI, SDK
Webbased UI, API Available, CLI Available for Windows/Mac/Linux, SDK Available for different platforms, Cloud Shell
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Common API service keys
Multiple API service keys
Each Alibaba Cloud user can create multiple access key/secret key pairs
GCP Users can create their own API Access keys; these keys can be shared
  Monitoring  
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General Service monitoring
Available, but inconsistent IAAS & PAAS service monitoring
Cloud Monitor
Stackdriver can do in-guest and Service monitoring
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VM Service monitoring
Guest OS agent based (Nimsoft)
The OSS monitoring service details metric data, including basic system operation statuses, performance, and metering. It also provides a custom alarm service to track requests, analyze usage, collect statistics on business trends, and promptly discover and diagnose system problems.
Every GCP instance sends basic metrics to Stackdriver. More metrics and one-minute monitoring are available at cost.
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Actions / Event logging
Limited capability (agent based)
The alarm rule page is where you can view, modify, activate, deactivate, and delete alarm rules related to OSS monitoring alarms.
Logging for GCP instances is possible with the service Stackdriver Logs
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Identity & Access Management
Centralised IAM
Alibaba Cloud Resource Access Management (RAM) is an identity and access control service which enables you to centrally manage your users (including employees, systems or applications) and securely control their access to your resources through permission levels.
Google IAM access
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Multi factor authentication support
Only for IAAS
Users can create, bind, unbind, and delete virtual multi-factor authentication devices.
Google 2 step authentication
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Granular Access Control
Configurable access control to IAAS
Supports role-based access control
Google IAM access
  Control  
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VM Billing per min / hr
Hourly / Monthly / Subscription
On-demand pricing by the hour and by the month
Pay-as-you-go, reserved instances for one or three years, Per second biling
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VM micro (below 1 vCPU)
1vCPU minimum
ecs.n1.tiny
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VM Small (up to 8 vCPU)
Available : Configurable mem up to 64GB
ecs.c1.large and ecs.n1.xlarge series
n-standard-8
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VM Medium (up to 16 vCPU)
Available : Configurable mem up to 128GB
ecs.c2.large and ecs.n1.3xlarge
n1-standard-16
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VM Large (up to 32 vCPU)
Available : Configurable mem up to 242GB
ecs.n1.7xlarge and ecs.sn1.7xlarge
n1-standard-32
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VM XLarge (up to 64 vCPU 128GB RAM)
Max 56 core with mem up to 242GB
largest instance is 56 vCPU
n1-standard-64
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VM XXLarge (up to 128 vCPU 2TB RAM)
Not available as VM (Baremetal option : per Month)
No
No
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GPU VM Large (up to 32 vCPU)
Not available as VM (Baremetal option : per Hr / Month)
ecs.gn5-c28g1.14xlarge
n1-standard-32
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GPU VM XLarge (up to 64 vCPU 128GB RAM)
Not available as VM (Baremetal option : per Hr / Month)
largest instance is 56 vCPU
n1-standard-64
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GPU VM XXLarge (up to 128 vCPU 2TB RAM)
No generally available Baremetal option
No
No
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GPU types
Nvidia Tesla P100, M60, K80, Grid K2 (monthly & hourly options)
Nvidia Tesla P100 GPU
NVIDIA K80, AMD FirePro, Tesla P100
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Custom VM size
Standard config types for public VMs. Private host VMs can be configured
No
Yes
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Defined disk IOPS
Not available as local disc (available with SAN)
Users can choose SSD storage, but they cannot specify IOPS
IOPS are linked with GB size of disks
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SR-IOV support
Not supported
No native SR-IOV support
Yes, Intel DPDK
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Network speeds
1 x public / 1 x private : Can add 1 private but no ability to add additional
Based on selected network bandwidth peak between
Each core is subject to a 2 Gbits/second (Gbps) cap for peak performance. Each additional core increases the network cap, up to a theoretical maximum of 16 Gbps for each virtual machine
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Add virtual NIC
No ability to add vNIC
No. Can add multi-queue for NICs
Yes
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Attached / detach block storage
Limited ability with portable storage
Yes, including Shared Block Storage
Yes, can add or deattach data disks
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Virtual dedicated cloud
Virtual network created at L2 VLAN level.
Alibaba Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is an isolated cloud network built for private usage.
A GCP tenant has its dedicated virtual network scope
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IP reassignment
Can assign portable public / private IPs
Only Elastic Ips
Yes
  Image  
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Manual snapshots image
Supported
Can create system image
Yes, you can create a persistent disk snapshot
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Scheduled snapshot image
Not available as native service (could script through API)
Scheduled tasks are supported, but not for VM image
No, only manually using CLI
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API / CLI Snapshot image
Supported
Scheduled tasks are supported, but not for VM image
Yes using REST API or using gcloud CLI
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Make image public / marketplace
Supported
Only through Marketplace
Yes images can be using privately or published in the Google Cloud Launcher
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VM import
ISO & VHD imports supported
Supports RAW and VHD format
Using CloudEndure
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VM export
VHD image export
Must request for export function to be whitelisted
No
  O/S  
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Windows
Windows Server 2012, 2012R2, 2016 Standard edition
Windows Server 2008 and 2012, Standard, Data Center, and Enteprise, English and Chinese
GCP currently supports a variety of operating systems including:  Ubuntu, Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Fedora, Debian, CentOS, Gentoo Linux, Oracle Linux, and FreeBSD. 
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Linux
Redhat, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Cloudlinux, CoreOS
CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, FreeBSD, SUSE, and Alibaba Linux as well as CoreOS
GCP currently supports a variety of operating systems including:  Ubuntu, Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Fedora, Debian, CentOS, Gentoo Linux, Oracle Linux, and FreeBSD. 
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Bring your own OS
Supported (at own risk)
No
Yes
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Resize existing VM
Resize vCPU, memory, network speed
No
Yes
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VM Live Migration
Recovery processes not clearly defined. SLA for recovery defined (in hrs)
No
Yes, Live migration
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metadata
Supported
Limited to pre-defined metadata types
Yes
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Parking
Powering off VM does not stop billing
No
No, only manually using CLI
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Provision in less than 5 mins
Variable - often more than 5 mins
Yes
Yes
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Provision consistent spec
Although host performance is up to date, there is limited view of host specification
Instance generation types include specific CPU information
Consistent VM configs available 
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Reserved instances
Not available
Monthly subscription option only
Yes
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Spot instances
Not available
No
Yes, Preemtible VMs
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Dedicated host (Single tenant)
Dedicated host & dedicated Instances (pay per VM) available
No
No
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VM to host affinity (network optimised)
Available on didicated hosts
Only for containers
Yes
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VM to host anti-affinity
Available on didicated hosts
No
No
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Autoscaling VMs (within AZ)
Supported (within DC)
Yes
Yes, Instance Group
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Autoscaling across AZs/Regions
Not available
Using Server Load Balancing
No, not across regions but across AZ
  Block storage  
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Local HDD
Available (25GB & 100GB primary drive)
Basic Cloud Disk
Yes
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SSD HDD
Yes ability to define local storage (as SSD) 
SSD Cloud Disk
Yes
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SAN HDD
Available (25GB & 100GB primary drive)
SSD Cloud Server
No
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Encryption at rest
Not available on VM drives (only on additional attached storage)
For object storage
Yes

Matrix Score

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  • IBM
  • Alibaba
  • Google
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