Providers

Cloud Vendor Comparison Matrix

The table below is a high-level comparison of the approved and available service providers at UBC:

Vendor	UBC's EduCloud Private Cloud	Azure	AWS	Google Cloud
Signed contract with UBC	N\A	✔	✔	2022
Passthrough billing	✔	✔	✔	2022
Consolidated Access and management through CloudBolt	2022	✔	✔	2022
Approved for confidential and protected workloads (may require PIA)	✔	✔	✔	2022
Benefits		Well-suited for organizations using Microsoft services. Provides consistent services both in the cloud and on-premise and supports most use cases involved with MS products.	Most mature and enterprise-ready provider with an influential track record of customer success. Enterprises consistently benefit by being early adopters of new services.	No vendor lock-in. The main offerings in GCP are open source, with many of their products and services eventually becoming industry standards.
Pricing	Pricing based on allocation	Pay as you go model	Pay as you go model	Pay as you go model
Data egress waiver	No egress data charges	Data egress waived	Data egress waived	Data egress waived
Available Services	IaaS	Over 600 services available but not all are available in Canadian locations	Over 175 services available but not all are available in Canadian locations	Over 100 services available but not all are available in Canadian locations
Canadian Location (FIPPA compliant)	✔	✔	✔	✔
Strengths	On-premise and cost effective Full control over entire stack	Has a strong managed service provider network with dozens of partners on its list. Leads the PaaS segment of cloud service providers.	Has the largest market share in IaaS and PaaS, and is a leader in the majority of cloud products provided worldwide. Large enterprises deploy business-critical workloads to Amazon more often than to any other cloud provider.	Stands out in big data, machine learning and data science capabilities. Offers lower fees than other vendors for their services Significant investment in containers
Weaknesses	HA difficult and costly to achieve. Limited capacity Majority of services reside in Lower Mainland in the earthquake zone	MS support is the most expensive compared to other major cloud providers. Has fewer availability zones than other cloud service providers. Doesn't provide any form of guaranteed capacity to its customers, and even pre-paid contracts and reserved instances are not capacity guarantees.	Cost can become prohibitive if not managed effectively	Many of the services in the Google cloud are only available in the US. Google sells futures. Many of the services advertised by the sales team are not available for general consumption. Does not provide graceful exit from their cloud; customer data and services are removed immediately upon cancelation of service.
Contact information	UBC IT Systems Team	UBC IT Systems Team	UBC IT Systems Team	UBC IT Systems Team