If you own a business and you are looking for cloud services, it is really important that you choose wisely who to trust. In Singapore, like in many countries around the world, the most common cloud infrastructure providers are top companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. Although, depending on your company’s specifics you have the opportunity to choose amongst great local companies who partner up with those top names we mentioned. Whomever you choose, you should go for someone who provides the right experience to give you top performance and reliability.
Let’s mention some of Singapore’s best cloud providers.
AWS, Google, Microsoft Azure or Local Companies?!
We’ve put them all in one group as your first logical choice when deciding to use cloud services.
Whichever you choose you won’t be disappointed, although you’ll need to take a close look at the prices for each one of them.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS is a cloud computing platform that offers infrastructure, platform, and software as a service (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS). They are one of the biggest companies in the cloud business. They have data centers around different regions in the world, and Singapore is no exception. Then, based on these regions a client can choose one or more of these data centers, depending on their needs.
AWS offers a lot of services, but they have a lot of pricing schemas, which as a business you must pre-check to see if they’re affordable.
One of the main reasons businesses choose AWS is their infrastructure, so you will need to know your priorities before choosing any of the platforms.
Google Cloud
is the perfect choice for startups and small businesses, because of their affordable costs. Like every other product from Google, you won’t be disappointed in terms of performance or security.
Different from AWS, Google offers only one type of pricing plan, for which you only pay based on what you use.
Also, speed is one of the best reasons why businesses choose Google over AWS or any other cloud provider. With speed comes performance and this is why Google is top of the market.
Another important reason why using Google Cloud can be beneficial to your company is the data analytics they do. This is one of the greatest innovations they did. With data processing, your company can know much more about the profits, the customers, and other great insights that are important for their business development.
Microsoft Azure
is great when you need to move your business online. It has amazing features for virtual computing which is something that most e-commerce stores need.
They offer Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) which helps companies outsource their infrastructure to Azure and pay only what they use, and also Platform as a Service (PaaS) for when your company needs to have its own space to create apps without having their own ground-work.
One of the great benefits of choosing Azure is the compatibility with all Microsoft products, which makes them super reliable for all Microsoft users.
CloudMile
When it comes to CloudMile, lead the Asian market for cloud computing and artificial intelligence. They offer digital solutions from the combination of cloud, AI, machine learning, and big data analytics. Making them one of “Taiwan’s Coolest 10 startups” according to the Ministry of Science and Technology. They are Google Cloud Managed Service Providers.
Teridion
Teridion is one of the best cloud service providers in the Asian region. They are partnered with 25 public cloud providers to offer the best services, like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Softlayer, Digital Ocean, and many others.
This helps Teridion be present in more than 500 access points globally. It makes the Internet act as a private WAN, and the best technology that Teridion uses makes them the perfect solution for your enterprise if you’re looking to improve performance when you lack the infrastructure or don’t have the budget for bigger investments in cloud computing.
Teridion’s “multi-cloud solution” means they’re using multiple public cloud solutions from different vendors to balance your workload needs. Because Teridion’s WAN multi-cloud service is built within the public cloud, they are able to accelerate your access to any public cloud provider, from anywhere, to anywhere.
Teridion puts your network edge right in the cloud provider’s data center for the best possible performance.
Accrets International
Accrets is one of the best private cloud service providers in Singapore, that offers services and solutions globally.
They host private cloud environments in their Tier III Data Centers while offering security and reliability of your business data. These data centers provide the densest connections to many international telecom carriers and Cloud Exchange fabric access for secure hybrid connections to Public Cloud Providers. They serve as production and disaster recovery facilities to operate IT applications.
Considering the costs regarding hardware refreshes, maintenance contracts, licensing fees, and other expenses, it is important to partner up with a company that does not over-cost your budget.
Accrets provides hardware and software to help your company set up an On-Premise Cloud Infrastructure, which can be very beneficial for your company if you’re located in Singapore.
Conclusion
Choosing a cloud infrastructure provider can be really beneficial to a company because it allows them to focus on their products and business development instead of maintaining their own infrastructure, which we all know, can cost a lot.
Whatever provider you want to choose, it’s important that you should only pay for what you use and when you use it.
For small businesses, it’s crucial to choose such platforms because having an IT guy to maintain their personal cloud can cost. While cloud providers offer tech support whenever you’ll need it.
So before choosing the right cloud provider, it’s important that you look at the performance, security, and reliability they are offering.
If your business uses a lot of Microsoft software and Windows, you should probably may investigate Azure. If you run a small, web-based startup and are looking to scale quickly, you might want to consider the Google Cloud Platform. For those who are looking for the most comprehensive catalog of services and worldwide reach, AWS is probably the best option.
In the Asian market, there are multiple companies that offer such services. We only mentioned some of the best who also collaborate with the greatest cloud providers internationally.
Depending on how much you are willing to spend, it may be logical to first look up a local company to help you with your cloud services needs.
There are businesses who prefer bespoke private cloud infrastructure providers like Accrets International, who has much more flexibility to customize cloud services specific to customer’s business application requirement.
Some small/mid sized businesses also prefer a service provider who is similarly sized as them (They feel this way, they may get more attention from their local service provider, as compared to the notice they may get if using “Branded” cloud infrastructure providers)
Accrets International also has capabilities to resell and integrate public cloud infrastructure (Azure / AWS / Google), as part of Multi-cloud/Hybrid cloud strategies for clients’ growing businesses. A single convenient point of contact for clients, so its clients need not manage multiple contracts with various cloud infrastructure providers.
