AWS vs Azure

@wbsimms@southshorenet

• Know about “web hosting”?• Yeah… it’s kinda like that.

• But much more…..

What is the cloud?

Private

Applications

Runtimes

Security

Databases

Servers

Virtualization

Hardware

Networking

Storage

Infrastructure

Applications

Runtimes

Security

Databases

Servers

Virtualization

Hardware

Networking

Storage

Platform

Applications

Runtimes

Security

Databases

Servers

Virtualization

Hardware

Networking

Storage

Cloud Flavors

• Scalable• Grows as you do

• Regionalized• World-wide deployments

• Fault tolerant• Very little downtime to errors or

upgrades

So what’s the big deal?

The players

AWS(Amazon WS)

• Similar• Server hosting• Virtual or dedicated

• Database Hosting• Scaling• Queuing• Notification Services• Tooling Azure

(Microsoft)

The players

AWS(Amazon WS)

• Differences - Many details!• OS types• Database Types (and

features)• Queue features• Notification features• Tooling support• Etc ad nauseum…

Azure(Microsoft)

Bottom line…

AWS(Amazon)

• The can both do everything you need. But how is the real question.

Azure(Microsoft)

Bad reviews?

AWS(Amazon)

• “The cloud ate my homework!”• The cloud supports

HA/Fault tolerance as well (or better) than your on-site solution. You need to use (pay for) the features.

Azure(Microsoft)

Example of simple e-commerce site

A cloud solution…

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Thanks!