“How much is in the clouds” - price review on the Ukrainian cloud market

Recently I decided to change my job, and at the same time - the direction of activity / development. Yielding to the current trend - went to IT, got a job in a company engaged in cloud technologies. And since the direction for me is completely new - he made an emphasis on RTFM and began intensively to study the mat. In the process - I wanted to clarify the place of the company under the sun of the local market. While I was doing this, I had some accumulated material, which I tried to systematize and lump together. It turned out, like, a good thing. Well, and since mom taught to share, then here's a treat for you, use whoever wants. (Summary plate - at the end of the text).

1. Microsoft Azure: 200, 77 € / month client will pay for 4 cores, 7 (seven) Gb of RAM, 120 Gb of disk for standard configuration. The site stated that high-speed and resource-intensive configurations are based on Intel Xeon E5 processors. For high-performance clusters, cores are offered - pure emerald Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 (Haswell) processors with a frequency of 2.4 GHz, 12 cores and 30 Mb of the third-level cache.

For comparison: we have the base XEON E5-2650v3 2,3, 10 cores and 25 cache.
A request for 4 cores, 7 (seven), 120 disk drives will cost us 99 € / month (SDD). That, with relatively the same capacity (after all, the E5-2673 they have in a much more expensive configuration) saves € 101.77.
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2. Amazon Web Services. From the start they offer annual free trial of the cloud. Almost all the buttons are tied to create a free account. The main anti- “bun” is a user calculating calculator. Attempting to calculate the cost of using the cloud, on sensations, was similar to an attempt to establish a close and gentle acquaintance with a slide rule. I am even afraid to imagine what their management interface is for the cloud itself. In general, having suffered an hour - I went to such numbers:

1 instant from 1 IP to 4 cores and 16 Gb (RAM?) Will cost 159.72 € / month. Price is excluding date of transfer, storage and other ELB.
In short - it seems that they want to fool the head, lure, and then outrage))

Some numbers from us: 4 cores + 16 = 96 € / month + a constant opportunity to ask for help from a consultant. Greater plus in comparison with.

3. IBM. Fast support in German / English, there is a website in Ukrainian, everything is simple and beautiful. True, there is a slight cognitive dissonance when you see the service “Spіlkuvannya with experts on the pitch to the cognitive business”. There are a lot of cognitive business there, which is strange.

At prices: 4 cores for 8 with 100 places out 136.45 € / month.

For comparison: here it will cost 98 €, which, out of the blue, gives a savings of 1073 UAH / month. ()

4. Krok. Russian company. One of the few who really has a proven Tier III Gold, and yes even Operation Sustainability.

The cost of 4vCPU, 8Gb RAM, 120Gb SATA is 9,487.20 rubles / month, which is 137.1 € / month. Everything is good, but we still have 90 € / month, which is 34.35% of the difference.

5. De Novo. The level of reliability Tier TIA 942 (!).
Calculator 4 cores 16 Gb RAM and 100 Gb SATA they will cost ~ 129.53 € / month.
As will be seen further, compared with our 98 € / month (for SSD), this gap is quite small, only 24.35%.

6. HostPro. Sell ​​processor time instead of cores and recommend taking servers instead of clouds.
The cost of 4 cores 8 Gb RAM and 100 Gb SSD they have 172.75 € / month.
With our 98 € / month. at the same power, the difference is ~ 43.27%.

7. Tucha.ua. If you believe what is written on the site - DC in Frankfurt, Tier III, etc.
Price op. at a cost of € 2, against our € 1.54.

8. Ucloud.ua, promote Microsoft 365, specialize in 1C.
They have 2 cores, 8, 150 will cost 4500 UAH / month, i.e. 161.2 €. It will cost us 51 €. This is a 111 € difference. Yes, they give 40 for the database, daily backup and storage of 14 copies of it, but such a huge difference (78.34%) still confuses me.

9. VoliaCLOUD. “Getting into the corporate server at the data center, the yak was designed by the TIA-942 standard in the Tier III class of the interconnection of the server” It’s strange for the national operator to see such a standard, but at least it’s said.

They sell gigahertz virtual cores, not the cores themselves. 10 (~ 4 cores), 16 and 100 will cost 4440 UAH. For comparison: We have the same cost in 2744 UAH / month. That is 38.2% more economical.

10. Cosmonova. There is a difference in location in Ukraine (say 1 core = 3.3 Ghz) and Europe (1 core = 2.8 Ghz). I suspect, then indicated turbo mode, radishes))
For SSD-shnuyu configuration in 4 cores, 8 Gb of RAM and 120 places requested 200 (two hundred) € / month.
With our € 100 / month, and processors with 3.0 GHz in turbo mode, this is exactly 50% difference.

11. Lattlelecom. Less than a month ago, we began cooperation with Ukrtelecom. He started selling their cloud.
If you take them directly, then 4 CPU / 16 RAM / 100 SSD will cost 130.76 euros, which, compared with our 108.40 €, is still more expensive, and this does not take into account the payment for the same virtual router that we have It is generally free (I checked).

12. Rackray. The exact opposite of Ucoud. If they are surprised by the high cost, then these are incomprehensible cheap. Even writing them further, he received the answer that: “a virtual server in the cloud costs 43.60 Euros per month. The server connects to the channel 10 Mbps (port 100 Mbps) without traffic. The price was quoted for 4 cores of 8 Gb RAM and 120 Gb on SAS drives. The cloud is built on the latest generation HP G9 and E5-2630 v4 processors (2.2 GHz, 10 Core). ”

I will risk an incorrect comparison, but we have the same characteristics on the SSD will be 100 € / month. How can I explain the 5-fold (!) Difference with Microsoft - I do not know, but I can not refute either.

13. Gigacloud. The main site is not yet available. Their DC operates under the same standard Tier TIA 942.

Slightly boring 4 CPU / 8 RAM / 120 HDD will cost 2300 UAH, and the virtual router, IP address, Internet 100/10 - another 275 UAH. They offer it all with VAT, because the total amount will be 3090 UAH, or 109.22 € / month. Referring to the cost of the same resources from us - we get 90.40 € / month.

In short:

No	Title	Their price (euro / month)	EUR difference	Difference in %
one	Microsoft Azure	200, 77	101.77	50,69
2	Amazon Web Services	159.72	63.72	39.9
3	Ibm	136.45	38.45	28.18
four	Croc	137.1	47.1	34.35
five	De novo	98	31.53	24.35
6	Hostpro	172.75	74.75	43.27
7	Tucha.ua	112	14	12.5
eight	Ucloud.ua	161.2	111.2	78.34
9	VoliaCLOUD	158.57	60,57	38.2
ten	Cosmonova	200	100	50
eleven	Lattelecom	130.76	24.76	18.9
12	Rackray	43.6	-56.4	-56.4
13	Gigacloud	109.22	17.78	17.34