Cloud as a Service: features

The most important features of our GIG.tech managed cloud service. 

Locations
Cloud locations
GIG.tech automatically deploys, manages and maintains full cloud services at the cloud location of your choice. You just choose the location, provide the rack, power and networking and we do all the heavy lifting for you.
Management
Easy management
The GIG.tech Meneja service exists of a simple control panel which helps you to manage all your cloud locations. Add hardware, manage network connectivity and access rights, monitor health and determine where an image is provided and by whom it can be used.
High performance
High performance cloud
We take pride in our solution as it is one of the most performant cloud solutions available at this time.
Benchmarks have shown that we beat major public cloud performance consistently - for IO, networking as well as compute.
Agile
Agile by design
The GIG.tech cloud can be easily integrated in your agile development process and your CI/CD pipeline. We provide open API's, maintained Terraform and Apache LibCloud plugins, a CSI plugin for Kubernetes and a bunch of playbooks to deploy multisite Kubernetes clusters.
Backup
Ease of use
We provide extensive tools to support migration from any virtualisation platfom or any cloud solutions towards GIG.tech and back. Our partnership with Rackware provides you with an option to do mass-migrations and deliver disaster recovery services.
Cloud services
Ready to deliver public cloud services
Each location can deliver public cloud services. Our Cloud as a Service is fully multi-tenant and has the tools to meter and rate services per account, VDC and VM. Service providers can provide detailed bills to their customers and offer pay-per-use pricing.

Pricing

One of our clients was unsure whether they should refurbish their existing in-house IT, move to AWS Outposts or move all IT to an AWS cloud.
So we made this 3 year TCO comparison.

3 year TCO comparison (relative - CAPEX + OPEX)

Cost comparison managed cloud services

Capabilities in a nutshell

The GIG.tech Cloud as a Service delivers a highly competitive feature set.  It allows you to start delivering complex cloud services instantaneously anywhere and anytime you want

  • Compute
  • Storage
  • Networking
  • Integration options
  • Cloud capacity
  • Audit and security
  • Public cloud
  • Integrated billing
  • Create KVM based virtual machines up to 512 GB RAM / 64 vCores
  • Best UnixBench and IO Bench scores versus major clouds
  • 99,99% reliability due to self-healing logic, hitless upgrades, live migration, highly available block storage
  • GIG.tech provided and maintained images, possibility to deliver your own image and templates, automated multi-location image management through GIG.tech Management Portal (Meneja)
  • Migration from any cloud to GIG.tech and vice versa through import / export OVA, migration scripting through CLI or automated mass migration through third party apps like Rackware
  • Anti PICNIC (problem in chair not in computer) features - trash-bin for all user initiated deletes and automated snapshotting
  • High performance SSD-like block storage - create virtual disks ranging from 10 GB / 400 IOPS to 2 TB / 20 000 IOPS
  • > 99,99% availability and reliability
  • Manage QoS per virtual disk: IOPS, throughput, bursting, separate read/write QoS or combined
  • Automated and user initiated snapshotting
  • Very efficient usage of backend due to erasure coding and transaction log based storage
  • High reliability through self-healing capabilities, anti-bit-rot protection, full redundancy
  • High performance internal networking - up to 10/25/... Gbps (Depending on HW choices)
  • Fully redundant connections to external networks
  • Possibility to connect several private and public external networks - effectively slicing the location
  • Our Cloudspace service allows users to build complex, multi-layer routed networks, with support for DHCP
  • Our Cloudspaces each have a fully private OSI level 2 network, creating a VLAN-like network environment for virtual machines inside
  • Our Cloudspace service offers virtual networking fire-walled from external networks through a fully configurable virtual router
  • Multi-location networking- automatically set up an IPSeC based routed and encrypted overlay network between VDCs in different locations
  • You can bring your own firewall appliance rather than using the VDC provided virtual router
  • Services deployed in cloudspaces can be exposed via the buil tin reverse proxy or load balancer in the virtual firewall or by making port forwards (NAT) from the virtual firewall to the deployment inside the cloudspace
  • Infrastructure as Code with a maintained and free to use Terraform provider
  • Full and documented API
  • Maintained and tested playbooks to set up multi-location Kubernetes clusters
  • Detailed metering and rating reports available via API for integration with any billing and cloud management portal
  • Cloud units
    We use cloud units to dimension and calculate the net-usable cloud capacity available to users. Cloud units are also used to measure the amount of cloud capacity used and are an easy way to bill your customers.
Compute, storage, transaction
  • Capacity predefined configurations
    We have predefined hardware configurations to make it easy to install, manage and maintain the infrastructure. 

Option to deploy without connecting to internet - can be deployed in full private and firewalled network

User authentication via integrated IAM - supports multi-factor authentication

Full searchable audit trace of all actions taken by all users

  • Automated SSH key management
  • Management connection without RDP or SSH - avoiding brute force attacks on management interfaces
  • Data encryption options - at rest and on move
  • Full audit trace of all management actions performed
  • Full multi-tenant implementation

  • Fine grained usage metering and rating supports pay as you use billing mechanisms

  • Billing interface to easily integrate in any billing software available

  • Manage your Microsoft SPLA licenses to be in sync for auditing with Octopus.cloud integration

  • Public, private and hybrid white labeling options

  • Metering based invoice generation based on the used Cloud Units.

  • Payment collection via Stripe, Flutterwave & Paymob (We add support for more payment providers as needed)