Amazon EC2 vs Gcore Virtual Machines
Amazon EC2
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Gcore Virtual Machines
gcore.comSide by side
| Figure | Amazon EC2 | Gcore Virtual Machines |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 8 | 5 |
| Spec score · Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Software | 9.0 (#1) | 7.1 (#8) |
| Compliance | AWS lists EC2 in its compliance program scope, which includes independent-auditor certifications and attestations; customers remain responsible for applicable compliance requirements. | Gcore says customers can keep data in-region and cites GDPR, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS standards for its cloud locations. |
| Security | AWS says EC2 security is built on the Nitro System, which offloads virtualization functions to dedicated hardware and isolates customer workloads. | The VM page lists basic DDoS protection, WAF, encryption, and cloud firewall options. |
| Support | Basic AWS Support is included for all AWS customers and provides 24/7 customer service, documentation, communities, Trusted Advisor core checks, and AWS Health. | Gcore's support page lists a Basic tier as included and paid Standard, Advanced, and Enterprise support tiers from €29/mo. |
| Workloads | AWS describes EC2 as serving web and enterprise applications, HPC, machine learning, SAP, Windows, and macOS workloads. | Gcore describes the VM offerings for general, CPU-intensive, memory-intensive, and high-frequency CPU workloads, with GPU instances aimed at AI workloads. |
Plans
Amazon EC2
- AWS Free Tier credits for EC2Free
- Free TierFree
- Spot InstancesFree
- Dedicated HostsPrice not published
- On-Demand InstancesPrice not published
- Reserved InstancesPrice not published
- Savings PlansPrice not published
- Spot InstancesPrice not published
Gcore Virtual Machines
- CPU-OptimizedPrice not published
- GPUPrice not published
- High-FrequencyPrice not published
- Memory-OptimizedPrice not published
- StandardPrice not published
In their own words
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 provides resizable, secure compute capacity as virtual servers in the cloud. It offers over 1,000 instance types across Intel, AMD, and Arm processors for workloads including web and enterprise applications, high-performance computing, machine learning, SAP, Windows, and macOS. EC2 Auto Scaling can add or remove instances under dynamic or predictive policies. Instances can use persistent block storage through Amazon EBS and shared file storage through Amazon EFS; the service also provides a Query API and AWS SDKs. AWS says its Nitro System moves virtualization functions to dedicated hardware and isolates customer workloads. EC2 appears in AWS’s compliance program scope, though customers remain responsible for applicable compliance requirements. AWS states a 99.99% availability SLA commitment for each Region. Billing is per instance-hour or per second depending on instance type and operating system; eligible per-second use has a 60-second minimum. New AWS customers can receive up to $200 in credits, and the free plan lasts six months after account creation. The T4g free trial has monthly hour limits and surplus CPU credits can incur charges.
Gcore Virtual Machines
Gcore Virtual Machines has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.