public clouds with similar AWS EBS offerings

Question

What are other public clouds with similar AWS EBS offerings?

The ability to have the disks and compute to be separate and independent and you could attach/detach disk at runtime

What about the ability to set IOPS (provisioned IOPS)?

Answer 1

There are disks in both Google Compute Engine and Microsoft Windows Azure.

In Azure when you create and attach a Disk; behind the scenes it is a page-blob which gets created in the apecified Azure Storage Account. There isn't any exact same like AWS EBS in Azure. This disk can attached, reattached to instances.

https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/disks http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2012/06/28/exploring-windows-azure-drives-disks-and-images.aspx

Answer 2

On the ability to set set IOPS, it seems that with GCE and Azure IOPS is tied to capacity. There doesn't seem to be a way to set IOPS limits as you can with AWS io1 (even though io1 is also capacity bound).

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/performance https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-premium-storage/