Genesis Public Cloud Feature Comparison

Compare Genesis with our competition (updated November 6, 2019)

Pricing Billing Platform Features Compute Features Network Features Storage Features Platform Security Network protections Performance Automation Data center audits Terms and Conditions

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Pricing

	Genesis	DigitalOcean	Vultr	Upcloud	OVH	RamNode
Internet Data transfer costs (egress)	$5.12/TiB	$10.24/TiB	$10.24/TiB	$57.34/TiB	$0.00	$4.096/TiB
Object Storage	$0.01/GiB/month	$0.02/GiB/month	$0.02/GiB/month	Feature Not Available	$0.0112/GiB/month	Feature Not Available
Image Storage	$0.08/GiB/month (SSD)	Feature Not Available	Feature Not Available	$0.22/GiB/month	$0.0112/GiB/month (HDD)	$0.05/GiB/month
Object Storage data transfers (egress)	None	$0.01/GiB	$0.01/GiB	Feature Not Available	$0.011/GiB	Feature Not Available
Setup cost per project	No	No	Feature Not Available	Feature Not Available	Yes	Feature Not Available
Monthly cost per project	No	No	Feature Not Available	Feature Not Available	No	Feature Not Available
Variable pricing depending on resource usage	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
API usage charges	No	No	No	No	No	No

Billing

	Genesis	DigitalOcean	Vultr	Upcloud	OVH	RamNode
Metering granularity	30 seconds	1 hour	1 hour	1 hour	1 hour	1 hour
Charges for powered off instances	No	Yes	Yes	Unknown	Yes	Yes
Billing data API and export	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Billing information granular queries	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Separate billing management from infrastructure users	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No

Platform Features

	Genesis	DigitalOcean	Vultr	Upcloud	OVH	RamNode
Free jump host included for easy CLI connectivity	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Kubernetes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Secrets Vault	Yes	No	No	No	Unknown	Yes
Import AND export VM images	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Granular and extensive metering of resources	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Access to metric data (Gnocchi in OpenStack)	Yes	No	No	No	No	No

Compute Features

	Genesis	DigitalOcean	Vultr	Upcloud	OVH	RamNode
Shared cores instances	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dedicated cores instances	Yes	Yes	Yes (limited)	No	No	No
Anti-affinity rules	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
VM Console access	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Server snapshots while VM is powered on	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Standard Cloud-init images	Yes	No	No	No	Unknown	Yes
Windows images and licensing	Yes	No	Yes (up to 2016)	Yes	Yes	No
Microsoft non-Windows licensing	Yes	No	No	No	No	No

Network Features

	Genesis	DigitalOcean	Vultr	Upcloud	OVH	RamNode
Pause VM in memory or save memory to disk	Yes	No	No	No	Unknown	Yes
Floating IPs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Port forwarding for Floating IPs (without firewall)	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Forward and reverse authoritative DNS	Yes	Partial (not for floating IPs)	Partial (not for floating IPs)	No	Unknown (not via API?)	No
Jumbo Frame support for easy encapsulation	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Distributed routers	Yes	No	No	No	Unknown	No
Distributed security groups	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No
Load balancers	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Load balancer flavors (from budget to high-end)	No (coming soon)	No	No	No	No	No
All ports exposed to Internet upon provisioning	No	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Yes

Storage Features

	Genesis	DigitalOcean	Vultr	Upcloud	OVH	RamNode
Data Center class SSDs with power loss protection	Yes	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Networked Storage for boot drives	Yes	No	No	Yes	Unknown	Yes
Encrypted storage for boot devices	Yes	No	No	No	Unknown	No
Inline snapshots	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Volume types	14	1	1	1	2	2
Volume snapshots	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Feature Not Available
Super-low-latency NVMe SSD storage available	Yes	No	No	Yes (limited)	No	No
Provisioned IOPS storage available	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Server boot drive backup	Yes	Yes (limited)	Yes (limited)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Volume backups	Yes	No	No	Yes	Unknown	Feature Not Available
Compressed backups available for download	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Flexible backup retention	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No

Platform

	Genesis	DigitalOcean	Vultr	Upcloud	OVH	RamNode
Open source (OpenStack)	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Proprietary APIs	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Single vendor supported	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Private cloud options	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No
Dedicated cloud options	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Multi-cloud access via CLI	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Domain support (multiple projects)	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No

Security

	Genesis	DigitalOcean	Vultr	Upcloud	OVH	RamNode
Intel CPU vulnerability mitigations	Yes	Partial (hyperthreading still used)	Yes	No	Unknown	Yes
Two-factor authentication	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SMS messaging for billing/support events	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Virtual private cloud functions	Yes (complete)	Yes (limited)	No	Yes (limited)	Yes	Yes (limited - no routers)
Direct connect networks	Yes	No	Yes	No	No (only for dedicated servers)	No
Account admin can create projects and users	Yes	Yes	No	No (users with permissions only)	No	No

Network protections

	Genesis	DigitalOcean	Vultr	Upcloud	OVH	RamNode
Network-level protections	Yes (FortiGuard)	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
DDoS network protections	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes

Performance

	Genesis	DigitalOcean	Vultr	Upcloud	OVH	RamNode
Network bandwidth	2 x 100Gbps per node (varies per instance type)	Varies (1Gbps up to 40Gbps)	1Gbps (10Gbps on bare metal?)	Unknown (Infiniband? Throttled?)	4Gbps per node (varies per instance type)	10Gbps?
Floating IP bandwidth	2Gpbs	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Feature Not Available
Block Storage Max IOPS	Up to 40k IOPS per volume	Up to 7500 IOPS per volume	Unknown (only available in New York, still in beta)	Unknown	Up to 3000 IOPS per volume	Unknown (measured at 6000 IOPS per instance)
IOPS and bandwidth limits per volume (not per VM)	Yes	Unknown	Unknown	No (per VM)	Yes	Feature Not Available
Block Storage Bandwidth	Up to 1600MiB/sec per volume	350MiB/sec per volume	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Fastest CPUs	Xeon Gold 3.7GHz (4.7GHz soon)	Xeon Platinum 3.4GHz	Unknown (also misrepresents using higher-than-tested Geekbench scores)	Xeon 6136	Unknown	Xeon E3v6

Automation

	Genesis	DigitalOcean	Vultr	Upcloud	OVH	RamNode
Orchestration	Yes (HEAT)	No	No	No	Yes (HEAT)	Yes (HEAT)
Terraform support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Data center audits

	Genesis	DigitalOcean	Vultr	Upcloud	OVH	RamNode
SSAE18	Yes	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Yes - only in France and Canada?	Yes
SOC 2 Type II	Yes	Varies	Unknown	Unknown	Yes - only in France and Canada?	Yes
ISO 27001	Yes	Varies	Unknown	Unknown	Yes - only in France and Canada?	Yes
PCI	Yes	Varies	Unknown	Unknown	Yes - only in France and Canada?	No

Terms and Conditions

	Genesis	DigitalOcean	Vultr	Upcloud	OVH	RamNode
Throttling/bursting and other limits in effect but not advertised	No	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Use 100% of your CPU or drive resources without complaints	Yes	Unknown	Unknown	No	Unknown	Unknown