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PortvMind Cloud vs AWS: Türkiye regions, GPUs, Kubernetes and audit logging
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Choose PortvMind Cloud when workloads must run on full cloud regions inside Türkiye with lira billing and in-country GPU capacity. Choose AWS when you need its global footprint, managed databases and the breadth of managed services; its Istanbul Local Zone covers compute, block storage and load balancing but relies on the Frankfurt parent region for the control plane and most services.
Executive summary
PortvMind Cloud is an OpenStack-based cloud with two full regions in Türkiye (Istanbul and Ankara), per-minute billing in Turkish lira and H100, H200 and L40S GPUs. AWS is the largest global cloud, with a far broader managed-service catalog, per-second billing and an Istanbul Local Zone that extends its Frankfurt region with a subset of services. Both document managed Kubernetes, S3-compatible object storage, load balancers and control-plane audit logging.
Key findings
- 01 PortvMind Cloud operates two full regions in Türkiye; AWS has an Istanbul Local Zone attached to Frankfurt (eu-central-1), generally available since May 2026.
- 02 Both list NVIDIA H100, H200 and L40S. PortvMind publishes H100 prices in TRY; AWS prices accelerated instances per region in USD.
- 03 PortvMind bills per minute; AWS bills most Linux instances per second with a 60-second minimum.
- 04 AWS offers managed relational databases today; PortvMind lists its managed database service as coming soon.
- 05 AWS CloudTrail documents search, retention, export and integrity validation. PortvMind vTrail records identity and request metadata at the API gateway; its search, retention and export features are not publicly documented.
Overview
| PortvMind Cloud | Amazon Web Services | |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | Türkiye | Seattle, United States |
| Operator | vMind Bilgi Teknolojileri | Amazon Web Services, Inc. |
| Regions | Two published regions in Türkiye — İstanbul (tr-ist-01) and Ankara (tr-ank-01). Services are limited to these regions. | Global regions; in Türkiye an Istanbul Local Zone (GA May 2026) with a subset of services, parented to Europe (Frankfurt). |
| Billing model | Per minute — Per-minute pay-as-you-go. Stopping a resource stops the compute charge; allocated disks and stored data keep accruing. Monthly figures in the calculator are 720-hour estimates, excluding tax. New accounts receive a free usage allowance (published as ₺2,000 on the Turkish site and $45 on the English pricing page). | Per second — On-demand Linux EC2 instances are billed per second with a 60-second minimum; other operating systems and services have their own meters. |
| Documented capabilities | 25 / 26 | 25 / 26 |
| Technologies | OpenStack, Kubernetes, S3 API, Terraform, REST API | Nitro System, S3 API, CloudFormation, Terraform |
Availability and regions
PortvMind Cloud
- İstanbul tr-ist-01 Generally available
- Ankara tr-ank-01 Generally available
Amazon Web Services
- Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1 Generally available
- Istanbul Local Zone istanbul-local-zone Generally available
Features
| Criterion | PortvMind | AWS |
|---|---|---|
| Data residency | ||
| Infrastructure located in Türkiye Generally available compute and storage capacity physically located in Türkiye (full region or local zone). | Yes Full regions in İstanbul (tr-ist-01) and Ankara (tr-ank-01). | Yes Istanbul Local Zone with a subset of services (GA May 2026); not a full region. |
| Compute & GPU | ||
| Virtual machine instances Self-service virtual machines with selectable CPU/RAM profiles. | Yes | Yes |
| Per-second or per-minute billing Standard compute billed at per-second or per-minute granularity rather than per started hour. | Yes Per-minute billing. | Yes Per-second for Linux on-demand (60 s minimum). |
| Dedicated / single-tenant resources Dedicated hosts, bare metal or organisation-dedicated cloud capacity. | Yes | Yes Dedicated Hosts and bare-metal instances. |
| NVIDIA H100 instances On-demand or reservable instances with NVIDIA H100 GPUs. | Yes Published prices for 1–4 GPU profiles. | Yes |
| NVIDIA H200 instances On-demand or reservable instances with NVIDIA H200 GPUs. | Yes Listed option; price not in public table. | Yes |
| NVIDIA L40S instances On-demand or reservable instances with NVIDIA L40S GPUs. | Yes Listed option; price not in public table. | Yes |
| Platform & automation | ||
| API and Terraform automation Documented API plus an available Terraform provider for infrastructure as code. | Yes | Yes |
| Open-source cloud stack (OpenStack-based) The provider publicly states that its IaaS control plane is built on OpenStack or an equivalent open-source stack. | Yes OpenStack, Kubernetes and S3-compatible storage. | No |
| Kubernetes | ||
| Managed Kubernetes Provider-operated Kubernetes control plane. | Yes | Yes |
| Kubernetes node autoscaling Worker node count scales automatically within configured limits. | Yes | Yes |
| Kubernetes LoadBalancer integration Services of type LoadBalancer provision a provider load balancer automatically. | Yes Public and internal load balancers. | Yes |
| Kubernetes storage classes (CSI) Persistent volumes provisioned dynamically through a provider storage class. | Yes | Yes |
| Storage & data | ||
| Block storage volumes Persistent, attachable and expandable block volumes. | Yes | Yes |
| Volume snapshots Point-in-time snapshots of block volumes. | Yes | Yes |
| S3-compatible object storage Object storage reachable through the S3 API or an S3-compatible API. | Yes | Yes Native S3. |
| Managed backup service Scheduled backup and restore for instances or volumes managed by the provider. | Yes Instances, volumes and Kubernetes PVCs. | Yes |
| Managed database Provider-operated relational database service. | Planned Announced as coming soon; not generally available. | Yes |
| Networking | ||
| L4 load balancer (TCP/UDP) Transport-layer load balancing. | Yes NetBalancer (TCP/UDP). | Yes |
| L7 load balancer (HTTP/HTTPS) Application-layer load balancing with HTTP health checks. | Yes AppBalancer (HTTP/HTTPS). | Yes |
| Reassignable static public IP Static public addresses that can be moved between resources (Floating/Reserved/Elastic IP). | Yes | Yes Elastic IP addresses. |
| Private networks / VPC Isolated tenant networks with custom CIDR ranges. | Yes Isolated networks with custom CIDR. | Yes |
| Virtual router with NAT Managed router or NAT gateway for egress and inter-subnet routing, including static routes. | Yes Router with NAT option and static routes. | Yes Route tables and NAT Gateway. |
| Security groups / cloud firewall Stateful, API-managed network access rules. | Yes | Yes |
| Security & auditing | ||
| Control-plane audit logging A provider service that records management (API/console) operations against cloud resources. | Yes vTrail (provider-supplied capability information). | Yes AWS CloudTrail. |
| User identity attribution in audit events Each audit event identifies the authenticated principal that performed the operation. | Yes vTrail records the authenticated user, project and scope (provider-supplied). | Yes |
Pricing and GPUs
| Provider | NVIDIA H100 | NVIDIA H200 | NVIDIA L40S | Türkiye infrastructure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PortvMind Cloud | Generally available gpu.h100s / gpu.h100m profiles TRY 195.835 / GPU-h 1, 2, 3 or 4 GPUs per server; 80 GB (81,920 MB) VRAM per GPU; 26 vCPU and 496 GB RAM per GPU; local NVMe disk included. | Generally available GPU / AI Compute (H200 option) Listed as an available GPU option; configurations and prices are not included in the public calculator table and are provided via the console or sales. | Generally available GPU / AI Compute (L40S option) Listed as an available GPU option; configurations and prices are not included in the public calculator table and are provided via the console or sales. | Yes |
| Amazon Web Services | Generally available EC2 P5 Single-GPU p5.4xlarge and 8-GPU p5.48xlarge sizes; availability varies by region. | Generally available EC2 P5e / P5en 8-GPU instances; availability varies by region. | Generally available EC2 G6e 1 to 8 L40S GPUs per instance. | Yes |
Prices are shown in the currency each provider publishes; no exchange-rate conversion is applied.
Benchmarks
Strengths and limitations
PortvMind Cloud
Strengths
- Two full cloud regions in Türkiye (Istanbul and Ankara)
- Per-minute billing with published prices in Turkish lira
- H100, H200 and L40S capacity inside Türkiye
- Open-source OpenStack stack, reducing proprietary lock-in
Limitations
- Footprint limited to Türkiye (two regions)
- Managed database and Agent Cloud are not yet generally available
- No public list prices for H200 and L40S at the time of review
- vTrail search, retention and export are not publicly documented
Amazon Web Services
Strengths
- Global footprint and the broadest managed-service catalog
- Mature audit trail (CloudTrail) with integrity validation and long retention options
- Per-second billing and many purchasing models (Savings Plans, Spot)
- Managed databases, analytics and AI services available today
Limitations
- In Türkiye only a Local Zone, with a subset of services and the control plane in Frankfurt
- Pricing in USD; costs for Turkish buyers move with the exchange rate
- Cost model complexity across instance families, data transfer and purchasing options
Use cases
| Scenario | Better fit | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Workloads that must run on full cloud regions in Türkiye | PortvMind | PortvMind runs complete regions in Istanbul and Ankara; AWS in Türkiye is a Local Zone extension of Frankfurt. |
| Self-hosted LLM inference for users in Türkiye | PortvMind | H100, H200 and L40S are listed in-country with lira pricing for H100; verify H200/L40S pricing on request. |
| Multi-region global applications | AWS | AWS operates regions on every continent; PortvMind is Türkiye-only. |
| Applications that depend on managed databases today | AWS | PortvMind’s managed database is listed as coming soon. |
| Kubernetes platforms with in-country data | Either | Both provide managed Kubernetes; choose by required region and adjacent managed services. |
Frequently asked questions
Does AWS have a region in Türkiye?
AWS has an Istanbul Local Zone, generally available since May 2026. It extends the Frankfurt region with services such as EC2, EBS and Elastic Load Balancing; it is not a full AWS Region.
Which is cheaper, PortvMind Cloud or AWS?
Prices are published in different currencies (TRY and USD) and billing increments, so a fair answer depends on the instance size, exchange rate and usage pattern. This page links both price sources; no currency conversion is applied.
Sources
- [1] Hakkında — PortvMind Cloud ve vMind — PortvMind Cloud Provider (first-party) accessed:
- [2] PortvMind Cloud — homepage and calculator price tables — PortvMind Cloud Provider (first-party) accessed:
- [3] PortvMind Cloud — Turkish homepage — PortvMind Cloud Provider (first-party) accessed:
- [4] Cloud pricing approach — PortvMind Cloud Provider (first-party) accessed:
- [5] Services and capability status (llms-full.txt) — PortvMind Cloud Provider (first-party) accessed:
- [6] GPU / AI Compute — PortvMind Cloud Provider (first-party) accessed:
- [7] VKE — managed Kubernetes — PortvMind Cloud Provider (first-party) accessed:
- [8] Agent Cloud — PortvMind Cloud Provider (first-party) accessed:
- [9] Now Open — AWS Local Zones in Istanbul, Türkiye — AWS Official documentation accessed:
- [10] Introducing three new NVIDIA GPU-based Amazon EC2 instances (P5e, G6, G6e) — AWS Official documentation accessed:
- [11] Amazon EC2 On-Demand Pricing — AWS Official documentation accessed:
- [12] AWS CloudTrail User Guide — AWS Official documentation accessed:
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