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Azure vs. UpCloud
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Sign up for a 3-day trial!| UpCloud Azure | ||
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| Storage (write, 4KB random) | 25754 |
226 |
| Storage (read, 4KB random) | 101726 |
426 |
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66667
50000
33333
16667
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| UpCloud Azure | ||
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| Memory (K ops/sec) | 2118 |
2027 |
| CPU (events) | 6691 |
5359 |
7000
5833
4667
3500
2333
1167
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3 reasons to choose UpCloud
Key points
We believe that enterprise-grade performance and reliability should be available for every company. With this thought in mind, we developed our own storage technology by the name MaxIOPS.
It’s explicitly built to give you the best I/O performance per dollar, without sacrificing any reliability! MaxIOPS often provides you with more than 2x the performance over enterprise-grade SSDs. In addition, to provide you with the consistent, high performance we’ve had to limit it at 100,000 IOPS per virtual storage device!
Industry leading IaaS marketplace analyst Cloud Spectator has chosen UpCloud twice as #1 performance leader in Europe among 10 top European cloud providers (Azure, AWS, DigitalOcean, Google, 1and1, CenturyLink, Rackspace, OVH, and Softlayer).
Azure’s block storage has a very slow performance even if you select SSD. Most of the times if you are looking for high-performance storage from Azure you have to upgrade to the premium storage plans.
Private networking and Floating IPs are essentials in building modern and scalable web applications. A private network lets your cloud servers communicate through a secure channel that is not exposed to the public network (i.e. the Internet) and doesn’t count towards your bandwidth costs.
Unlike on most cloud providers, our private network spans all our data centres and regions and is not isolated to a single data centre.
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With UpCloud, you get full flexibility with resources you use! All cloud servers can be deployed using cost-effective Simple plans or with fully customizable Flexible plans, completely according to your budget and needs. You can choose the amount of CPUs, RAM and storage that your service or application needs. Also, you are able to switch between Simple plans and Flexible configurations at any time. With this much freedom, you are in complete control of your performance and costs.
When choosing Microsoft Azure, you are forced to pick from a confusing number of resource plans they have pieced together for you. Once you’ve selected the right plan you can’t be as flexible as you want with it. If you ever hit a bottleneck with resources provided by Azure your only option is to try to find a new plan somewhat matching your requirements. By doing so you end up with a considerably more expensive system and wasting money on resources you don’t need.
What our users have to say
Case Studies
How Finqu attained 100% availability with superior performance
Previously, we ended up wasting a lot of time investigating and resolving technical problems. In contrast, we've been extremely happy hosting on UpCloud thanks to their reliable infrastructure.
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How Vaimo achieved faster time to market with performance to spare
Our services have benefited from the new solution resulting a faster time to market with the performance that is required with large eCommerce systems.
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How Wunder unified their infrastructure in all regions
Our projects vary greatly between implementations, therefore, we really wanted to unify our infrastructure. UpCloud has proven to be flexible enough to allow us to adapt to different needs with minimal effort.
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How Haltu built intricate customer solutions on simplicity
UpCloud's offering is simple and easy to understand, cloud servers with a little bit of networking, nothing overly fancy and that's exactly what we want.
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How PointerBP found relief from maintenance in new partnership
Each day our systems ingest large quantities of data and with UpCloud we know that the hardware management is in trustworthy and experienced hands.
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How Anders built their services on minimum maintenance
Consolidating almost everything hosting related to a single provider has been a huge management relief for our system administrators.
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How Polystream’s low latency application streaming reached new audiences
We are always looking to broaden our global reach and thanks to UpCloud we are able to deliver great quality streams to regions yet unreachable by traditional 3D streaming methods.
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How Ruby Studio built trusted design on reliability
With the new solution, we have achieved complete transparency and control. If we experience issues with a server, our server team will always be on top of it even before a client reports the issue.
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How Critical Force supercharged their game with MaxIOPS
UpCloud has enabled us to run large datasets on individual servers. Due to the extreme IOPS performance, we’ve consolidated our services from tens of hosts to but a few high-powered systems.
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How Evermade cloudified their company infrastructure
Cloud-based company infrastructure has provided many benefits. For example, working remotely is a breeze since our work is not tied to any office location or even a specific computer.
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How Fraktio attained rock-solid stability
We have been enjoying the competitive pricing. On top of that, the customer service is always very friendly and responsive thanks to UpCloud being far less corporate than other providers.
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How Sitesbi raised their SLA way above industry norms
Thanks to your offerings, our SLA is almost as good as yours. Your backups are also, in our experience, the best in the market. It was love at first sight.
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How Barabra took control of their cloud hosting solution
We're able to adapt to different situations much better thanks to being in full control of our software stack. The ability to activate and deactivate instances on-demand has proven very useful.
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How SportMonks increased their API performance to new heights
The new servers at UpCloud are so much faster on the disk, CPU, and memory performance. We get way more requests out of the same amount of money that the migration was well worth it.
Read the Case Study| UpCloud | Microsoft Azure | Difference | |
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| Instance | 1 CPU, 1GB Memory, 25GB MaxIOPS | 1 CPU, 1GB Memory, 64GB SSD (B1S) | - |
| Location | West Europe (Netherlands) | West Europe (Netherlands) | - |
| Price (USD) | $5/mo | ~$9.224/mo | -0.5x |
| Disk I/O (sysbench, 4 KB random read) | 101726 IOPS | 426 IOPS | +238.8x |
| Disk I/O (sysbench, 4 KB random write) | 25754 IOPS | 226 IOPS | +113.9x |
| CPU(sysbench, CPU) | 6691 | 5359 | +1.2x |
| Memory(sysbench, Memory) | 2118K ops/s | 2027K ops/s | - |
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