Cloud Sigma - GÉANT Cloud Services

CloudSigma is a leading European infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider with a focus on flexibility, performance and excellent customer support. Everything is offered via European companies and locations providing a 100% European law compliant solution without exposure to the US patriot act or other legal jurisdictions and complications.

“With CloudSigma, today we can offer to our member states something we could not offer before, which is to have their own virtual machine, with their own software, they take care of their own licences for that deployment, where we co-locate the data that they need.”

Ricardo Correa, Network Applications Expert @ ECMWF

High Flexibility

CloudSigma is one of the most customizable cloud providers on the market. Customers are able to provision compute processing, storage, networks and other fundamental computing resources at one’s discretion, meaning CPU, RAM, Storage and bandwidth can be purchased independently to allow the best combination of cloud resources without the limitation of fixed server sizes. Each resource is billed separately and transparently as either subscription or as pay-as-you-go 5-minute billing segments enabling customers to track exactly how much their cloud servers are costing over time. Any operating system and software can be installed with complete administrator/root control. Account administrators are able to assign specific access and control rights over certain account related operations.

Competitive Pricing

CloudSigma offers simple utility style pricing based on resource units. This provides efficient purchasing and transparent billing for customers.

There are two purchase models; subscription and pay-as-you-go pricing. Subscription purchases can be applied for predictable resources requirements needed for at least a month or more, whereas pay-as-you-go purchases are applicable for unpredictable short-term requirements in the cloud and are billed based on short 5-minutes billing cycles. The combination between the two models allows for high resource optimization of cloud infrastructure and efficient purchasing directly in line with resource needs over time.

For GÉANT users, CloudSigma offers attractive aggregate volume discounts and a free Proof-of-Concept phase.

Top Performance

End-user performance requirements will vary depending on each workload. The CloudSigma cloud stack is designed to deliver high performance across computing, storage and networking to support the successful deployment of a wide range of application workloads. CMIPS and other independent benchmarks give us the highest price-performance ratio for virtual machines of various sizes.

Unparalleled Customer Support

Our slogan is “big enough to deliver and small enough to care”. All customers receive 24/7 live chat and email ticketing support for free with a responsive service. For example half or all live chats are responded to in than 15 seconds. Additionally, every single customer of CloudSigma – no matter how big or small – gets a dedicated named account manager to take personal care of their cloud account.

Free test account provided by CloudSigma

CloudSigma gives the chance to every single customer that is using the GÉANT Framework Agreement to test our cloud free of charge. The test account comes equipped with the following resources for two weeks: