Thanks, Adam. That looks like a +1 for AWS and I appreciate your comments 
about Amazon's support and documentation.

regards
David

On Monday, 21 August 2017 21:09:59 UTC+1, Adam Cox wrote:
>
> Hi David, I do all of my hosting on AWS because it is extremely flexible, 
> and the price is right. I don't have experience with Google Cloud Engine or 
> Azure... I would imagine that both of those services have everything you 
> need to get set up with Arches, but from Joel's comment it sounds like 
> Azure is more expensive than AWS. As for support, I have had a few issues 
> that were all quickly and easily resolved by opening support cases, and I 
> have also found their documentation to be very thorough. There is a 
> learning curve, but I highly recommend AWS. I don't know about GCE's "free 
> forever" tier, but AWS has its own "free tier" that includes the services 
> you would need for Arches, though it only lasts one year, just so you 
> know...
>
> If it's ever of interest to you, my company offers hosting for Arches v3 
> or v4, either in production or just to help you out with development (set 
> up a quick instance and give you access to it, etc.).
>
> Hope that info is all helpful! 
>
> Adam
>
> On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 10:28:50 AM UTC-4, David Osborne wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone using a cloud implementation of Arches have recommendations 
>> for choosing a provider? For our project, I'm considering Amazon AWS, 
>> Google's Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. This is a new installation, so 
>> there are no legacy systems to be considered. In the past, I've read about 
>> AWS but I don't yet know very much about Google's offering. At the 
>> university where I work, we're starting to deploy some new services in 
>> Azure, so I've had a little more exposure to that and it does seem to offer 
>> some useful services, with PostgreSQL as a supported database, for example. 
>> However, my work on Arches is not related to the university.
>>
>> How do the costs compare for the three providers? Similarly, how are they 
>> for support? I'll be grateful for any comments.
>>
>> Thanks
>> David
>>
>>
>>

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