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the right decisions, every day.
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Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure?
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AmazonMicrosoft
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But the Race Has Just Begun …
Mile 1
Mile 26
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And More Providers Are Giving Chase …
Mile 1
Mile 26
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Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure?
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Evaluation Criteria for Cloud IaaS
• 205 Individual Criteria
• Required, Preferred, Optional
• Interactive Excel Tool
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Evaluation Categories
• Compute
• Storage
• Networking
• Security & Access
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• Service Offerings
• Support & Service Levels
• Management & DevOps
• Price & Billing
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Provider In-Depth Assessments
9
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Provider In-Depth Assessments — 2014
Required Preferred Optional
Amazon Web
Services
92% 67% 54%
Microsoft Azure 75% 41% 31%
Difference 18 14 11
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Both Providers Improved From 2013
Required Preferred Optional
Amazon Web
Services
92% 67% 54%
Microsoft Azure 75% 41% 31%
2013:
Amazon Web Services 71% 48% 50%
Microsoft Azure 55% 37% 29%
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Required Criteria Comparison
0%
25%
50%
75%
100%Compute
Storage
Network
Security & Access
Service Offerings
Support & ServiceLevels
Management &DevOps
Price & Billing
AWS Azure
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Where AWS Beats Azure
• Rapid, Self-service Provisioning
• Basic Autoscaling Support
• Provider-enabled Encryption Services
• Multiple Virtual NICs and Network Segments
• External Network Security ACLs/Firewall
• Data Center Proximity
• Relational DBaaS
• Custom Tagging and Grouping of Resources
• Account Management Logging
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Where Azure Beats AWS
• Expandable Block Storage Volumes
• Published DR Plan and Test Results
• 90-day SLA Change Notice
• 60-day Service Health and SLA History
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Choose Amazon Web Services if …
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You Require SignificantScalability and Automation
Offerings
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You RequireLocal and Global Availability
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AWS Availability Blueprint
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Your Business Demands a Robust Application
Marketplace
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2050+
Citrix NetScaler F5 Big-IP
SAP Hana
Alert Logic
LAMP Stacks
Tibco Jaspersoft
New Relic
OS Stacks
Cisco 1000V
Your Business Demands a Robust Application
Marketplace
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You Depend Upon the Most Robust Feature Set
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Security
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Security
Firewalls & ACLs Data Locale Control
RBAC - Compute RBAC - Network
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Poll: What is your primary reason for using AWS?
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Scalability & Availability
42%
Automation & Feature Set
21%
Marketplace15%
Security11%
Other11%
N = 221
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Choose Microsoft Azure if …
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You Are Deeply Invested in Microsoft Technologies
.NET PowerShell
Systems Center
Hyper-V Premier Support
Active DirectoryExchange
SharePointDynamics
SQL Server
Visual Studio
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You Can Accept Scalability Limitations
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Scalability Constraints
• Autoscale:
- Limited to preprovisioned VMs
- Only integrates with CPU core monitoring
• Firewall/ACLs:
- Managed on a VM by VM level
• No multi-NIC VM support
• No metrics-driven load balancing
• RBAC limitations for compute and networking
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You Use Azure PaaS orOffice 365 and Prefer a
Single Provider
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Microsoft Cloud Portfolio
• Websites
• Mobile Services
• Media Services
• Service Bus
• Notification Hubs
• Scheduler
• BizTalk Services
• Visual Studio Online
• Office
• Exchange
• SharePoint
• Lync
• Unified Communications
• Yammer
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You Need a Contingency Plan for AWS
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It Benefits You Financially
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Poll: What is your primary reason for using Azure?
35
MSFT Relationship
64%
Combination of Azure + O365
14%
Financial Discounts
11%
AWS Contingency
4% Other7%
N = 242
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"Net It Out for Me"
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AWS
Easy RapidScale
Infrastructure-centric
IntegratedSupportSales
Multicloud
Azure
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Stay Tuned
Google Cloud Platform
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Recommendations
Create your unique IaaS evaluation criteria set.
Evaluate providers against your criteria:
- Trust that AWS and Azure are the current criteria leaders.
- Do not discard other players in the market.
Forecast your future provider requirements:
- Prioritize feature breadth and innovation?
- Prioritize history, relationship and integration?
Select a provider and begin using, but NEVER sit idle.
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