1) internal traffic between boxes at rackspace is on the public network unless you setup ipsec/ssl http://serverfault.com/questions/184655/suggestions-for-vpn-...
2) Definite lack of firewalls and no deep packet inspection
3) No free micro tier for testing/dev
Others:
a) I don't like all the naming conventions of AWS - reminds me of Starbucks where a small is "tall"
b) Neither seem to offer IDS out of the box and/or outgoing firewalls although one can set-up snort/sourcefire (AWS offers this) https://aws.amazon.com/solution-providers/isv/sourcefire
c) No two factor authentication services out of the box for application authentication(need to use yubikey/duo security)
1) internal traffic between boxes at rackspace is on the public network unless you setup ipsec/ssl http://serverfault.com/questions/184655/suggestions-for-vpn-...
2) Definite lack of firewalls and no deep packet inspection
3) No free micro tier for testing/dev
Others:
a) I don't like all the naming conventions of AWS - reminds me of Starbucks where a small is "tall"
b) Neither seem to offer IDS out of the box and/or outgoing firewalls although one can set-up snort/sourcefire (AWS offers this) https://aws.amazon.com/solution-providers/isv/sourcefire
c) No two factor authentication services out of the box for application authentication(need to use yubikey/duo security)