Price Comparison / AWS EC2 M3 Instances Produced by, Inc. Additional Information and access to a 14- day trial are avaialble at: http://www.profitbricks.com Getting Started: Comparing Infrastructure- as- a- Service offerings can be tricky. Providers use a lot of similar terms to describe what can be very different things and there are so many factors to consider, it's hard to know exactly what you're buying. Pricing in US$ We want to make that all easier for you. The following is a 4- step comparison of Web Services EC2 M3 instances and that focuses on what you need, as opposed to what you are forced to pay for, in an IaaS solution. Let's start with the base pricing of both AWS and : core (hour) core (30 RAM (hour) RAM (30 (hour) (30 (hour) (30 on demand 0,0250 18 0,0075 5,4 N/A N/A 0,000056 0,04 Pricing in US$ core (hour) core (30 RAM (hour) RAM (30 (hour) (30 (hour) (30 on demand N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 0,000069 0,05 on demand plans cores RAM SSD price (hour) price (30 M3 Medium Instance 1 3,75 4 0,113 81,36 M3 Large Instance 2 7,5 32 0,225 162,00 M3 Extra Large Instance 4 15 80 0,450 324,00 Temporary (also called "ephemeral" or "scratch") SSD does not have any redundancy built into it. This is the default offering from AWS when using EC2. If an instance goes down or is turned off, the data is lost. does not offer " ", all of our Cloud is which keeps its data independent of the instance Page 1 /12
Price Comparison / AWS EC2 M3 Instances and all data is at a minimum saved on two disks in two availibility zones for built- in redundancy. AWS M3 instances use SSD without redendancy, increasing your risk for data loss. SSD is supposed to be high- performance in terms of I/O. However ' still outperforms 's SSD. The pricing refererence here is based on 's USA East North Virginia, pricing in other datacenters can be higher. also charges extra for I/O with their product, which makes it difficult to predict your costs. does not charge extra for I/O with our redundant. Price Comparison Step 1 "First sight" price (30 Price (30 Price Advantage - cores RAM SSD price (hour) Price (hour) M3 Medium Instance 1 3,75 4 0 0,113 81,36 0,0533 38,41 53% M3 Large Instance 2 7,5 32 0 0,225 162,00 0,1080 77,78 52% M3 Extra Large Instance 4 15 80 0 0,450 324,00 0,2169 156,20 52% does not offer because it is not as useful as, especially in bigger sizes. This first comparison ignores that significant difference and calculates a price based on three common AWS instance sizes, with comparably sized instances. With this simple comparison, is 52% ot 53% less expensive than AWS. But as we'll see in Step 2, with it's difficult to configure the right size instance and you must factor in how Amaon forces you to buy larger instances with resources you don't need. Price Comparison Step 2 "Temporary is not useful" price (30 Price (30 Price Advantage - cores RAM SSD price (hour) Price (hour) M3 Medium Instance 1 3,75 4 250 0,130 93,86 0,0672 48,41 48% M3 Large Instance 2 7,5 10 500 0,260 187,00 0,1346 96,90 48% M3 Extra Large Instance 4 15 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,2686 193,40 48% Page 2 /12
Price Comparison / AWS EC2 M3 Instances If cannot be counted on, why are you forced to buy more of it when what you really want is more CPU or RAM? Price Comparison Step 3 "Don't buy more than you need" For this comparison we changed the view of the instances to form a more realistic use case. Since cannot be used to reliably store valuable data, we altered the scenario to minimize its use to 10 GB, enough for the bootable operating system for the instance. Of course, AWS doesn't allow this flexibility so it's base price on the three instance sizes remains the same, and we added common amounts of fully redundant volumes added to them., does provide this level of flexibility when configuring instances. For pricing in Step 2, a 10 GB boot volume and the same reasonably sized data volume computed for the AWS is used. With this difference in quality and a usable sizing is factored in, the cost advantage is 48%. We aren't finished with this "don't buy what you don't need" analysis. Step 3 takes a closer look at CPU and RAM combinations. For example, what if you need 4 CPU cores? With AWS you are forced to buy 15 GB of RAM if you want 4 CPU cores. What if you need 8 GB of RAM to go along with those 4 CPU cores? does not offer that option. Once again, forces you to buy resources you don t need. let's you configure and buy this combination. Cloud computing is about paying for resources you need and use, it should not force you to buy too few or too many resources. price (30 Price (30 Price Advantage - cores RAM SSD price (hour) Price (hour) M3 Medium Instance 1 3,75 4 250 0,130 93,86 0,0672 48,41 48% if you only need less cores/ram you save even more 1 1 4 250 0,130 93,86 0,0466 33,56 64% 1 2 4 250 0,130 93,86 0,0541 38,96 58% 1 3 4 250 0,130 93,86 0,0616 44,36 53% M3 Large Instance 2 7,5 10 500 0,260 187,00 0,1346 96,90 48% if you only need less cores/ram you save even more 1 4 10 500 0,260 187,00 0,0833 60,00 68% 1 5 10 500 0,260 187,00 0,0908 65,40 65% 1 6 10 500 0,260 187,00 0,0983 70,80 62% Page 3 /12
Price Comparison / AWS EC2 M3 Instances 1 7 10 500 0,260 187,00 0,1058 76,20 59% 2 1 10 500 0,260 187,00 0,0858 61,80 67% 2 2 10 500 0,260 187,00 0,0933 67,20 64% 2 3 10 500 0,260 187,00 0,1008 72,60 61% 2 4 10 500 0,260 187,00 0,1083 78,00 58% 2 5 10 500 0,260 187,00 0,1158 83,40 55% 2 6 10 500 0,260 187,00 0,1233 88,80 53% 2 7 10 500 0,260 187,00 0,1308 94,20 50% M3 Extra Large Instance 4 15 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,2686 193,40 48% if you only need less cores/ram you save even more 1 8 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1411 101,60 73% 1 9 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1486 107,00 71% 1 10 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1561 112,40 70% 1 11 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1636 117,80 69% 1 12 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1711 123,20 67% 1 13 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1786 128,60 66% 1 14 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1861 134,00 64% 1 15 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1936 139,40 63% 2 8 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1661 119,60 68% 2 9 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1736 125,00 67% 2 10 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1811 130,40 65% 2 11 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1886 135,80 64% 2 12 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1961 141,20 62% 2 13 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,2036 146,60 61% 2 14 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,2111 152,00 59% 2 15 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,2186 157,40 58% 3 1 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1386 99,80 73% 3 2 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1461 105,20 72% 3 3 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1536 110,60 70% 3 4 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1611 116,00 69% 3 5 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1686 121,40 68% 3 6 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1761 126,80 66% 3 7 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1836 132,20 65% Page 4 /12
Price Comparison / AWS EC2 M3 Instances 3 8 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1911 137,60 63% 3 9 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1986 143,00 62% 3 10 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,2061 148,40 60% 3 11 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,2136 153,80 59% 3 12 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,2211 159,20 57% 3 13 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,2286 164,60 56% 3 14 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,2361 170,00 55% 3 15 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,2436 175,40 53% 4 1 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1636 117,80 69% 4 2 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1711 123,20 67% 4 3 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1786 128,60 66% 4 4 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1861 134,00 64% 4 5 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,1936 139,40 63% 4 6 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,2011 144,80 61% 4 7 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,2086 150,20 60% 4 8 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,2161 155,60 58% 4 9 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,2236 161,00 57% 4 10 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,2311 166,40 56% 4 11 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,2386 171,80 54% 4 12 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,2461 177,20 53% 4 13 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,2536 182,60 51% 4 14 10 1000 0,519 374,00 0,2611 188,00 50% Minimum 48% Maximum 73% Average 61% AWS uses fixed sized instances that dictate to YOU how much you can buy. Shouldn't you be able to buy what you actually need? With, you can customize each instance to your exact needs. This table shows the additional savings that can be achieved for many different combinations if you are able to buy exactly and only as much as you need, like you can with. The scenarios above average 61% in total savings, but what about performance? Step 4 shows how not all cloud CPUs are created equal and how even more cost savings are possible with superior performance. Page 5 /12
Price Comparison / AWS EC2 M3 Instances Price Comparison Step 4 "Consider performance" Profitbricks instances are roughly twice as fast as instances with the same amount of cores and RAM. Don't believe us? Please review our performance benchmarking reports that we publish. In that report, you'll find that for UnixBench (general CPU performance) and DBENCH (disk I/O), is twice as fast as AWS. How? We use InfiniBand networking technology to create a better virtualization platform. One that allows us to dedicate CPU and RAM to individual instances, so resources aren't time- sliced or shared in any way. You get exclusive use of CPU and RAM allocated to your instance, enabling better and more consistent performance than AWS. So, why pay for slow 4 CPU cores when you can buy 2 faster ones at a lower price? If you factor in the 2x speed gains into the price performance calculation you have these results: Minimum 74% Maximum 87% Average 81% Now you understand the waste that goes into how AWS forces customers to purchase instances and how you can save an average of 81% in what you pay. We don't expect you to believe, us though. That's why we invite you to: Try it out yourself with a free trial today! Produced by, Inc. Additional Information and access to a 14- day trial are avaialble at: http://www.profitbricks.com Contact Us: 1-866- 852-5229 or info- us@profitbricks.com Page 6 /12
Price Comparison / AWS EC2 M1 Instances Produced by, Inc. Additional Information and access to a 14-day trial are avaialble at: http://www.profitbricks.com Getting Started: Comparing Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings can be tricky. Providers use a lot of similar terms to describe what can be very different things and there are so many factors to consider, it's hard to know exactly what you're buying. Pricing in US$ We wanted to make that all easier for you. What follows is a 4-step comparison of Web Services EC2 M1 instances and that pays careful attention to what you need, as opposed to what you are forced to pay for, in an IaaS solution. Let's start with the base pricing of both AWS and : core (30 RAM (30 (30 (30 core (hour) RAM (hour) (hour) (hour) on demand 0,0250 18 0,0075 5,4 N/A N/A 0,000056 0,04 Pricing in US$ core (30 RAM (30 (30 (30 core (hour) RAM (hour) (hour) (hour) on demand N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 0,000069 0,05 on demand plans cores RAM price (hour) price (30 M1 Medium Instance 1 3,75 410 0,12 86,40 M1 Large Instance 2 7,5 850 0,24 172,80 M1 Extra Large Instance 4 15 1690 0,48 345,60 Temporary (also called "ephemeral" or "scratch") does not have any redundancy built into it. This is the default offering from AWS when using EC2 m1 instances. If an instance goes down or is turned off, the data is lost. Block keeps its data independent of the instance and data is minimum saved on two disks in one availibility zones for built-in redundancy. This is what AWS offers with EBS. Page 7 / 12
Price Comparison / AWS EC2 M1 Instances standard saves data on four disks in two different availibility zones. The datacenter used as pricing refererence is USA East North Virginia, pricing in other datacenters can be higher. also charges extra for I/O of their product, this is a not predictable value which is included in the pricing but adds unpredictable extra cost to customers. Price Comparison Step 1 "First sight" price (30 Price (30 Price Advantage - cores RAM price (hour) Price (hour) M1 Medium Instance 1 3,75 410 0 0,120 86,40 0,0759 54,65 37% M1 Large Instance 2 7,5 850 0 0,240 172,80 0,1535 110,50 36% M1 Extra Large Instance 4 15 1690 0 0,480 345,60 0,3064 220,60 36% does not offer because it is not as useful as, especially in bigger sizes. This first comparison ignores that significant difference and calculates a price based on three common AWS m1 instance sizes, using the higher quality to compute the comparably sized instance price. With this simple comparison, is 36%-37% less expensive than AWS m1 instances. But as we'll see in Step 2, there are further savings to be had when factoring in the amount of AWS forces customers to purchase as instance sizes get larger. Price Comparison Step 2 "Temporary is not useful" price (30 Price (30 Price Advantage - cores RAM price (hour) Price (hour) M1 Medium Instance 1 3,75 10 250 0,137 98,90 0,0676 48,65 51% M1 Large Instance 2 7,5 10 500 0,275 197,80 0,1346 96,90 51% M1 Extra Large Instance 4 15 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,2686 193,40 51% If cannot be counted on, why are you forced to buy more of it when what you really want is more CPU or RAM? For this comparison we changed the view of the instances to form a more realistic use case. Since cannot be used to reliably store valuable data, we altered the scenario to minimize its use to 10 GB, enough for the bootable operating system Page 8 / 12
Price Comparison / AWS EC2 M1 Instances Price Comparison Step 3 "Don't buy more than you need" for the instance. Of course, AWS doesn't allow this flexibility so it's base price on the three m1 instance sizes remains the same, but with reasonably sized and fully redundant volumes added to them., however, does provide this level of flexibility. For pricing here in Step 2, a 10 GB boot volume and the same reasonably sized data volume computed for the AWS is used. With this difference in quality and usable sizing is factored in, the advantage jumps to 51%. We aren't finished with this "don't buy what you don't need" analysis, though. Step 3 takes a closer look at CPU and RAM combinations. What if you want 4 CPU cores? AWS makes you buy 15 GB of RAM if you want 4 CPU cores. What if you only need 8 GB of RAM to go along with those 4 CPU cores? Sorry, AWS will tell you, that's not a choice. With, though, it is. price (30 Price (30 Price Advantage - cores RAM price (hour) Price (hour) M1 Medium Instance 1 3,75 10 250 0,137 98,90 0,0676 48,65 51% if you only need less cores/ram you save even more 1 1 10 250 0,137 98,90 0,0469 33,80 66% 1 2 10 250 0,137 98,90 0,0544 39,20 60% 1 3 10 250 0,137 98,90 0,0619 44,60 55% M1 Large Instance 2 7,5 10 500 0,275 197,80 0,1346 96,90 51% if you only need less cores/ram you save even more 1 4 10 500 0,275 197,80 0,0833 60,00 70% 1 5 10 500 0,275 197,80 0,0908 65,40 67% 1 6 10 500 0,275 197,80 0,0983 70,80 64% 1 7 10 500 0,275 197,80 0,1058 76,20 61% 2 1 10 500 0,275 197,80 0,0858 61,80 69% 2 2 10 500 0,275 197,80 0,0933 67,20 66% 2 3 10 500 0,275 197,80 0,1008 72,60 63% 2 4 10 500 0,275 197,80 0,1083 78,00 61% 2 5 10 500 0,275 197,80 0,1158 83,40 58% 2 6 10 500 0,275 197,80 0,1233 88,80 55% 2 7 10 500 0,275 197,80 0,1308 94,20 52% Page 9 / 12
Price Comparison / AWS EC2 M1 Instances M1 Extra Large Instance 4 15 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,2686 193,40 51% if you only need less cores/ram you save even more 1 8 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1411 101,60 74% 1 9 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1486 107,00 73% 1 10 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1561 112,40 72% 1 11 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1636 117,80 70% 1 12 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1711 123,20 69% 1 13 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1786 128,60 67% 1 14 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1861 134,00 66% 1 15 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1936 139,40 65% 2 8 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1661 119,60 70% 2 9 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1736 125,00 68% 2 10 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1811 130,40 67% 2 11 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1886 135,80 66% 2 12 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1961 141,20 64% 2 13 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,2036 146,60 63% 2 14 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,2111 152,00 62% 2 15 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,2186 157,40 60% 3 1 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1386 99,80 75% 3 2 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1461 105,20 73% 3 3 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1536 110,60 72% 3 4 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1611 116,00 71% 3 5 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1686 121,40 69% 3 6 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1761 126,80 68% 3 7 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1836 132,20 67% 3 8 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1911 137,60 65% 3 9 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1986 143,00 64% 3 10 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,2061 148,40 62% 3 11 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,2136 153,80 61% 3 12 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,2211 159,20 60% 3 13 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,2286 164,60 58% 3 14 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,2361 170,00 57% 3 15 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,2436 175,40 56% 4 1 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1636 117,80 70% 4 2 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1711 123,20 69% 4 3 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1786 128,60 67% 4 4 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1861 134,00 66% Page 10 / 12
Price Comparison / AWS EC2 M1 Instances 4 5 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,1936 139,40 65% 4 6 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,2011 144,80 63% 4 7 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,2086 150,20 62% 4 8 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,2161 155,60 61% 4 9 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,2236 161,00 59% 4 10 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,2311 166,40 58% 4 11 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,2386 171,80 57% 4 12 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,2461 177,20 55% 4 13 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,2536 182,60 54% 4 14 10 1000 0,549 395,60 0,2611 188,00 52% Minimum 51% Maximum 75% Average 63% AWS uses fixed sized instances that dictate to YOU how much you can buy. Shouldn't you be able to buy what you actually need? With, you can customize the instances to your exact needs. This table shows the additional savings that can be achieved for many different combinations if you are able to buy exactly and only as much as you need, like you can with. The scenarios above average 63% in total savings, but what about performance? Step 4 shows how not all cloud CPUs are created equal and how even more cost savings are possible with superior performance. Price Comparison Step 4 "Consider performance" Profitbricks instances are roughly twice as fast as instances with the same amount of cores and RAM. Don't believe us? Check out our performance benchmarking reports that we publish. In that report, you'll find that for UnixBench (general CPU performance) and DBENCH (disk I/O), is twice as fast as AWS. How? We use InfiniBand networking technology to create a better virtualization platform. One that allows us to dedicate CPU and RAM to individual instances, so resources aren't time-sliced or shared in any way. You get exclusive use of CPU and RAM allocated to your instance, enabling better and more consistent performance than AWS. So, why pay for slow 4 CPU cores when you can buy 2 faster ones at a lower price? If you factor in the 2x speed gains into the price performance calculation you have these results: Minimum 75% Page 11 / 12
Price Comparison / AWS EC2 M1 Instances Maximum 87% Average 82% Now you understand the waste that goes into how AWS forces customers to purchase instances and how you can save an average of 82% in what you pay. We don't expect you to believe, us though. That's why we invite you to: Try it out yourself with a free trial today! Produced by, Inc. Additional Information and access to a 14-day trial are avaialble at: http://www.profitbricks.com Contact Us: 1-866-852-5229 or info-us@profitbricks.com Page 12 / 12