Cloud Architecture: AWS and Azure for MetaSoft's Business Goals

This report examines cloud architecture strategies for MetaSoft, a software company aiming to transition its data center. The report advocates for a hybrid cloud approach, integrating on-premises infrastructure with cloud solutions like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure Functions. It details the functionalities of AWS, including its client-server architecture, data integration, and virtual private cloud capabilities. The report also highlights Azure Functions' serverless architecture, emphasizing its coding flexibility, pay-as-you-go pricing, and ease of development. The benefits of these cloud architectures are discussed, such as enhanced efficiency, increased productivity, cost reduction, and improved business sustainability. The report also addresses potential issues and offers insights into how these architectures can support MetaSoft's business objectives by improving data integration, networking, identity access, and deployment management. The overall aim is to provide MetaSoft with the necessary framework to meet its board's strategic goals, particularly closing down the old data center and adopting new cloud-based infrastructure.

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Cloud architectures to be employed to assist MetaSoft to meet the Board’s
strategy
As MetaSoft is a software company and is concerned about shifting its data centre
from the Melbourne data centre to the Sydney data centre, there is a high necessity of
implementing a cloud architecture (Li et al., 2013). A cloud architecture is required to be
implemented in the company because it will allow the company to be more secured and
reuse the most of its services. There are several cloud architectures that can be
implemented into the current system to enhance the performance and increase the line of
business (Zhang et al., 2014). The company is interested upon implementing a hybrid cloud
technology that intends to keep a section of the data centre on the premises whereas the
other part of the data centre will be residing in the cloud. The different kinds of the cloud
architectures that are required for the MetaSoft software company to meet the Board
Strategies include the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud architecture and the Azure
Functions server less architecture.
These two types of cloud architectures will be able to meet the requirements of the
company as the company is relying on the implementing a cloud architecture to enhance
the performance (Goyal, 2014). The various types of ways through which both the types of
cloud architecture could assist the MetaSoft software company is by enhancing the
efficiency of the company, increasing the productivity and by helping to have a significant
reduction of the company expenditures. Moreover, these two cloud infrastructures are
destined upon increasing the flexibility for the business. In addition to it, with the
implementation of these two type of cloud architectures, MetaSoft will be able to increase

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the business sustainability since the architectures will be able to increase the availability for
some business line applications that are intended to execute on the self infrastructures. The
cloud architectures as a whole will not only increase the flexibility of the business system
but will also be able to increase the responsiveness of the business especially with the
overseas operations. As the board has formulated some strategies to close down its old
datacentre, they are being more reliable on the cloud architectures (Alamri et al., 2013). The
mentioned cloud architectures intend to provide an overall support to the software
company.
Descriptions and Reasons for deploying the architectures
The AWS cloud architecture is devoted upon using a client infrastructure as the front
end infrastructure and a back end architecture that involves the application, management,
services, the cloud runtime, storage and the infrastructure (Zou, Deng & 2013). Moreover,
this cloud infrastructure is focussed upon the data integration, integrated networking,
integrated identity and access, integrated resource and deployment management along
with integrated devices and edge systems (Cloud, 2011). The integrated database that is
required for this company is the Amazon relational database because it is stress-free in
setting up, work and gauge a relational database. In internet networking, the Amazon virtual
private cloud can be incorporated in the cloud architecture as complete control of the
network can be achievable. A Hardware VPN connection can also be created between the
company’s data centre and the virtual proxy cloud to clout the cloud services as a lead of
the corporate data centre. Identity of AWS and the access management will enable the
company to increase the robustness by granting the management support along with the
AWS service access programming interfaces using the remaining identity systems (Koo et al.,

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2016). The VMware cloud is a manageable VMware environment of the AWS cloud that
provides an hourly access. AWS Greengrass is an integrated device that allows the user in
calculating, messaging and data retrieving for the linked devices in a secured manner.
On the other hand, the Azure functions intends to serve the software company with
the best of the solutions by running a small snippets of codes or functions in the cloud
platforms. Services offered by these cloud architectures are easy to use since the
programming codes in cloud can be modified according to the needs of the infrastructure.
Since the company is more focussed on closing down the old architectures, the Azure
functions will be able to satisfy the needs as new programming codes will be executed while
going on with new system (Gong, Yue & Zhou, 2010). In addition to it, Azure functions
provide a wide range of coding platforms to choose from such as C#, F# or JavaScript. The
features provided by the Azure functions are the selection of the language, pay as per the
usage pricing model, fetching the self-dependencies, incorporated security, flexibility in the
development and most importantly the functions of the set up comes from an open source
open source. The functions of this cloud architecture will be helpful in handling data,
incorporating new set ups, going hand in hand along with the Internet of Things (IoT) and
creating simple Access Programming Interfaces along with the microservices (McGrath et
al., 2016).
Benefits and issues that would be the result of the deployment of these
architectures
Benefits of the implementation of the AWS hybrid cloud architecture on MetaSoft company
are ample. On one side, the data integration and the networking wings will be able to
provide the company with the enormous resources available online and will also allow the

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company to grab a hold on the crucial insights (Dinh et al., 2013). While on the other side
the identity access, deployment management and the integrated devices will be able to
boost the performance of the company making it more sophisticated and strong. As there
will be added security with a virtual platform, the company will get a chance to break free
the limitations and work more to meet up the company objectives.
In parallel to the cloud architecture offered by the AWS services, there are several
benefits as well that are concerned with the development of the software company. One of
the most advantages of the Azure functions are that the entire cloud architecture is server
less in nature for which it will be easy to use according to the necessities of the company
(Singleton, 2016). The functions are chargeable according to the needs and the number of
execution. The mobile backend of the Azure function is server less also. With the
implementation of the Azure functions, the company will be able to use its own libraries.
Ease of development procedures will also help MetaSoft in getting rid of the old data
centres to shift finally to a new data centre (Fox et al., 2017). Azure function saves the from
the hassle of managing the virtual machines that is unlikely in other cloud architectures and
also helps in processing stream in real time.

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