{"id":12202,"date":"2015-01-13T00:57:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T00:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/jan\/13\/aws-google-softlayer-score-highly-ranking-most-reliable-cloud-providers\/"},"modified":"2015-01-13T00:57:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T00:57:33","slug":"aws-google-softlayer-score-highly-in-ranking-of-most-reliable-cloud-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/aws-google-softlayer-score-highly-in-ranking-of-most-reliable-cloud-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS, Google, SoftLayer score highly in ranking of most reliable cloud providers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cloud benchmarking provider CloudHarmony has updated its metrics, and found AWS, Google and SoftLayer to be among the most reliable public cloud providers in 2014.<\/p>\n

The figures, which can be found on its service status page here,<\/a> saw Amazon’s S3 register 23 outages across nine regions resulting in a 2.69 hour downtime across the year, while Amazon EC2 clocked up 12 outages resulting in a just over two hour outage time.<\/p>\n

Google’s Cloud DNS had a 100% record, while Cloud Storage suffered eight outages at an SLA of 99.9996%, App Engine suffered just one outage and Compute Engine had 66 outages for a 99.982% SLA.<\/p>\n

The most downtime of all the cloud providers analysed fell to Aruba Cloud, whose Cloud Storage facility clocked up a whopping 407 outages across five regions, and a total of 67.85 hours down. Microsoft’s Azure Virtual Machines suffered a total of 103 outages, and 42.94 hours out, with a 365 day availability of 99.937%, while ElasticHosts and Internap AgileCLOUD also clocked up more than 30 hours down over the course of the year.<\/p>\n

IBM’s SoftLayer had a clean bill of health, scoring 100% across Object Storage, CDN and DNS, while Rackspace nearly achieved the same, suffering 26 outages on Cloud Servers.<\/p>\n

Whether it’s an unexpected outage, such as Microsoft’s<\/a> – or planned downtime, as Verizon attempted this weekend<\/a> – there is no getting away from the cold hard facts of an SLA. Yet according to a senior executive at cloud services provider Claranet, SLAs don’t give quite enough insight.<\/p>\n

“The vast majority of SLAs don’t really get to the heart of what’s important to customers – or, at the very least, fall short of guaranteeing what customers really need and expect, beyond uptime and availability,” explained Paul Marland<\/a>, director of account management.<\/p>\n

“The industry tends to measure against technical metrics, but it’s important to remember that it’s the end user’s actual experience that counts.”<\/p>\n

As CloudHarmony CEO Jason Read acknowledges, not every outage could be recorded. Yet while this gives a good idea of the state of play, cloud solutions require far more due diligence, from price, to how it will fit into your business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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