Commercial offers

• Aruba Cloud (low cost for the Italy based service provider ​|Calcola il costo del tuo Cloud):
  1. from the website of a commercial collaboration sw (Polycom) I've derived the minimum requirements for the full suite of tools - web conferencing, sharing and collaborative apps (from Data sheet:
​http://www.polycom.com/content/dam/polycom/common/documents/data-sheets/polycom-realpresence-web-suite-data-sheet-enus.pdf) and estimated the cost per month offered by a cheap Italian provider, since Amazon require a long registration process and too much details:
  RealPresence? Web Suite Pro License
  • Services Portal–8 virtual cores, 
8 GB RAM, 100 GB Storage

(Aruba cloud offer: 152,640 Euro per month 187,200 Euro with Windows license)

• Experiences Portal–8 virtual core, 
16 GB RAM, 100 GB Storage (+ 175,680 Euro)
• Standards Connector–4 virtual cores, 
8 GB RAM, 100 GB Storage (+ 95,040 Euro)
• vSphere 5.5, 5.0 or 5.1
• Windows Hyper–V Server 2012 & 
Hyper–V 2012 R2

it is 500 a month so at least 6000 a year just for the machine and standard maintenance.

(see also: ​| Listino prezzi).

• Amazon

Here the link to have the Amazon offer (a bit higher: $ 1279.97 per month) for a typical set of requirements (to be checked, I couldn't specify analitically the requirements simply choose a template: Social Media Marketing Auto Scaling Web Application in 2 AZs) for a server based in Ireland: 3 Web servers of 2 virtual cores, 8GB RAM, 500 GB storage each 2 App Servers of 4 virtual cores, 16 GB RAM each 2 Database Servers of 4 virtual cores 16 GB RAM each 15 GB of Data Transfer 30 GB od Data Storage and Backup. Amazon (Ruby on rails) application that serves approx 200 concurrent users ​| Amazon WS Simple Monthly Calc