Public cloud IaaS services continue to be the hottest segment of the cloud market with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure gaining all the attention. Almost all customers are currently evaluating, selecting or deploying major IaaS services. In this session, Gartner lays out recommended evaluation criteria for IaaS providers and objectively evaluates how AWS and Azure stack up against one another. The following key questions will be answered in this session: What is the recommended evaluation criteria for IaaS providers? How do AWS and Azure compare to one another? What does the future hold for the public IaaS provider market?

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Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure?

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Amazon
Microsoft

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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
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Provider In-Depth Assessments —2014
Required
Preferred
Optional
Amazon Web Services
92%
67%
54%
Microsoft Azure
75%
41%
31%
Difference
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14
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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 andAutomation Offerings

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You RequireLocal andGlobal 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 primaryreason for using AWS?
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Scalability & Availability42%
Automation & Feature Set21%
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 Directory
Exchange
SharePoint
Dynamics
SQL Server
Visual Studio

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You Can Accept ScalabilityLimitations

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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 primaryreason for using Azure?
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MSFT Relationship64%
Combination of Azure + O36514%
Financial Discounts11%
AWS Contingency4%
Other7%
N = 242

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"Net It Out for Me"

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AWS
Easy
Rapid
Scale
Infrastructure- centric
Integrated
Support
Sales
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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Recommended Gartner Research
Evaluation Criteria for Cloud Infrastructure as a ServiceKyle Hilgendorf (G00259331)
Amazon Web Services: In-Depth AssessmentKyle Hilgendorf (G00263761)
Microsoft Azure: In-Depth AssessmentKyle Hilgendorf (G00263763)

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