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PortvMind Cloud vs Microsoft Azure: cloud comparison
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Direct answer
Choosing between PortvMind Cloud and Microsoft Azure depends first on location, required services and GPU access. 5 documented capabilities are only available on PortvMind Cloud and 1 only on Microsoft Azure. Measured performance is covered on the benchmark pages.
Executive summary
PortvMind Cloud and Microsoft Azure document 25 and 21 of the same 26 criteria respectively, with 20 capabilities in common. PortvMind Cloud bills per-minute and Microsoft Azure bills mixed. PortvMind Cloud has 2 full regions in Türkiye; Microsoft Azure has no infrastructure in Türkiye. PortvMind Cloud offers H100, H200, L40S; Microsoft Azure offers H100, H200.
Key findings
- 01 Capabilities documented only by PortvMind Cloud: Per-second or per-minute billing, Open-source cloud stack (OpenStack-based), S3-compatible object storage, Infrastructure located in Türkiye, NVIDIA L40S instances.
- 02 Capabilities documented only by Microsoft Azure: Managed database.
Overview
| PortvMind Cloud | Microsoft Azure | |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | Türkiye | Redmond, United States |
| Operator | vMind Bilgi Teknolojileri | Microsoft Corporation |
| Regions | Two published regions in Türkiye — İstanbul (tr-ist-01) and Ankara (tr-ank-01). Services are limited to these regions. | Global regions; no announced region in Türkiye. Nearest European regions include Germany West Central and Italy North. |
| 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). | Mixed — Usage-based pay-as-you-go with service-specific meters; reservations and savings plans available. Billing granularity for virtual machines is not recorded here as verified. |
| Documented capabilities | 25 / 26 | 21 / 26 |
| Technologies | OpenStack, Kubernetes, S3 API, Terraform, REST API | Azure Resource Manager, Bicep, Terraform |
Availability and regions
PortvMind Cloud
- İstanbul tr-ist-01 Generally available
- Ankara tr-ank-01 Generally available
Microsoft Azure
- Germany West Central germanywestcentral Generally available
- Italy North italynorth Generally available
Features
| Criterion | PortvMind | Azure |
|---|---|---|
| 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). | No No announced or launched region in Türkiye. |
| 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. | Unverified |
| Dedicated / single-tenant resources Dedicated hosts, bare metal or organisation-dedicated cloud capacity. | Yes | Yes Azure Dedicated Host. |
| 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. | No Azure Local only. |
| 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 | No Blob Storage uses its own API. |
| 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 Static public IP resources re-associable between NICs. |
| 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 Azure Monitor Activity Log. |
| 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 |
| Microsoft Azure | Generally available NC H100 v5 / ND H100 v5 NC H100 v5 with one or two H100 NVL GPUs; ND H100 v5 with eight H100 GPUs. | Generally available ND H200 v5 Eight H200 GPUs per VM. | Not offered L40S SKUs are documented for Azure Local / Azure Stack Hub (customer-site hardware). | No |
Prices are shown in the currency each provider publishes; no exchange-rate conversion is applied.
Benchmarks
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] List of Azure regions — Microsoft Official documentation accessed:
- [10] New Azure Region — Turkey (Microsoft Community Hub response) — Microsoft Official documentation accessed:
- [11] Use GPUs in AKS on Azure Local (supported GPU models) — Microsoft Official documentation accessed:
- [12] Azure Monitor activity log — Microsoft Official documentation accessed:
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