Most of the clouds are VPS anyway. The things that tend a little bit more to real clouds are atleast clustered VPS. I am yet to hear about Datacenter redundancy, especially for less than Amazon's offe

The Amazon zones are a bit fuzzy because they never say specifically if it's one data center or a cluster of data centers in the same geographic region. I am aware of a lot of those things you mentio

AWS EC2/EBS instances are only single DCs (availability zones). Outside of RDS which does master-slave replication underneath the hood, nothing crosses that boundary. Compute Engine is setup in a si

I would rather that it was just baked in like it would be on Amazon AWS. I don't know how else to say it but to me that would mean "TRUE CLOUD". Cloud means all over the internet.

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The CPU is at least 10 times better than Amazon's.

not sure if it is worth the try- only 256 ram? amazon gives you 600mb I think. And their regular pricing is obviously non leb http://www.nephoscale.com/tour/cloud-virtual-servers

When using Amazon EC2, EBS should be used mostly as rarely accessed storage media, wherever possible. They provide so called ephemeral storage for that purpose, it doesn't count towards EBS I/O consum

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What about if somebody got DoSed on the Amazon cloud? They could bill a fortune out of the end user.

As cheap as possible with those features. I don't need any kind of management but I want something that is less expensive than Amazon. Even if I had the budget I would not be interested in Amazon.

Not interested in Amazon.

* Open aws.amazon.com and click on "Account activity"

$450 on amazon. It has IPS screen and stuff.

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Put simply, Amazon "free tier" sucks, and now you know exactly why.

I am meant to be on the free tier free tier, but have been billed. I live in the UK and initially set up a server in Ireland. But then shut this server down and started on up in the USA as they had a…

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Use VPSes/other hosting plans devised for backup storage, such as Backupsy, BQBackup, XSBackup. Also, consider using Amazon S3 ('normal' and Glacier), as extremely reliable storage.

This one I guess: http://aws.amazon.com/free/ or http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/