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insight necessary for our clients to make

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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