INMOTION CLOUD VS. AWS, AZURE & GOOGLE CLOUD
They run the hardware. Who runs the rest?
On AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, your team patches the operating system, watches the alerts and answers the page. On InMotion Cloud, our engineers do that work in a shared Slack channel, for one fixed monthly price.
- No per-GB egress meter
- Support included, not a % of your bill
- Migration run by our engineers
- Engineers in your Slack
ON A HYPERSCALER
- 02:14The alert goes to whoever on your team is on call.
- 02:30They log in, diagnose and expand the volume themselves.
- 03:10If they need the provider, they open a support case on a paid plan.
- 09:05Someone on your team starts the day tired.
INMOTION CLOUD
- 02:14Our on-call engineer is paged by monitoring.
- 02:16They acknowledge in your shared Slack channel and start work.
- 02:23Fixed. They set an alert so it doesn’t page anyone again.
- 09:05Your team reads the summary over coffee.
The cloud is shared. So is the work.
Hyperscalers publish a shared responsibility model. The provider secures the hardware and hypervisor. The guest operating system, its patches and your firewall rules stay with you.
| What you compare | AWS · AZURE · GOOGLE CLOUD | INMOTION CLOUD |
|---|---|---|
| Who patches the OS | You. AWS says the customer manages the guest OS, including updates and security patches.Source 1 | Our engineers patch on a schedule you approve. |
| Who gets paged at 2am | Whoever on your team is on call. | Our on-call engineer, 24/7. |
| How you reach an engineer | A support case. Business Support+ targets a 30-minute response for critical cases.Source 6 | A shared Slack channel with the engineers who run your cloud. |
| What support costs | AWS Business Support+ is 9% of the first $10K of monthly charges, tiering down.Source 4 | Included in your monthly price. |
| Data leaving your cloud | Metered per GB. AWS lists $0.09/GB for the first 10 TB a month.Source 2 | A fixed egress allowance of 15 to 40 TB, by plan. |
| How the bill works | Usage-metered across compute, storage, transfer and add-ons. | One fixed monthly price. |
| Migration | Your team plans and runs it. | Our engineers plan and run it with you. |
Every line on a hyperscaler bill has its own meter.
Compute is the line you budget for. Data transfer, NAT processing and support are separate meters, and they grow with your traffic.
AWS data transfer out to the internet, first 10 TB a month after 100 GB free.Source 2
Azure and Google Cloud first-tier internet egress per GB, from US regions.Source 3
AWS NAT Gateway processing, charged on top of data transfer out.Source 7
AWS Business Support+ on the first $10K of monthly charges ($29 minimum per account).Source 4
Egress, support and engineers in one price.
Infrastructure, 24/7 monitoring, patching, backups and the engineers who run it, in one monthly price.
Small plan · 15 TB egress included
Medium plan · 20 TB egress included
Large plan · 40 TB egress included
Leaving a hyperscaler is a project. We run it.
AWS waives data transfer out charges for customers moving off AWS, but you need to request it through AWS Support before you start. We help you file the request and plan the move around it.Source 5
- 1
Assess
We inventory your accounts, services and traffic, and price the move.
- 2
Plan
We map each service, file the egress waiver request with you and set rollback triggers.
- 3
Migrate
We move one environment at a time, with a parallel run where you need one.
- 4
Validate
We test with your team, then cut over DNS when you approve.
| WHAT YOU RUN TODAY | ON INMOTION CLOUD |
|---|---|
| EC2 / VM instances | Instances |
| EBS / managed disks | Block storage volumes |
| S3 / Blob / GCS buckets | Object storage |
| VPCs and security groups | Private networks and security groups |
| Load balancers | Load balancers |
Exact mapping is confirmed in your assessment.
Bring your last hyperscaler invoice. We’ll walk through it with you.
An engineer will map your current setup to InMotion Cloud and show you what changes, line by line.
Order by Oct 30, 2026 and your first month on InMotion Cloud is half off with code SAVE50.
- [1]AWS: Shared Responsibility Model (opens in a new tab)
- [2]AWS: EC2 on-demand pricing, data transfer (opens in a new tab)
- [3]EgressCost: AWS, Azure and GCP egress rates (Sep 2026) (opens in a new tab)
- [4]AWS: Support plan pricing (opens in a new tab)
- [5]DCD: AWS removes data transfer fees for customers exiting (opens in a new tab)
- [6]Ascending: AWS Support plans in 2026 (opens in a new tab)
- [7]AWS: Amazon VPC pricing (NAT Gateway) (opens in a new tab)
Competitor pricing is list pricing from public pages as of October 2026, US regions, and may differ from your negotiated rates. AWS, Azure and Google Cloud are trademarks of their respective owners.