Cloud-based Services: Evaluating Providers for ABC Company Report

This report investigates cloud-based service options for ABC Company, a retail firm in Australia. It focuses on adapting virtualization and cloud computing for hosting application servers, specifically for email and web services. The report proposes Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) as suitable cloud providers, justifying the selection based on the services offered, such as IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS, and their suitability for the company's requirements. It demonstrates how cloud computing supports dynamic scaling, enabling the company to manage its resources effectively. The analysis includes discussions on service uptime, availability, scalability, and security. Furthermore, the report references key advantages of AWS, including its diverse range of services, dynamic scaling capabilities, and various data management tools. The report concludes by emphasizing the benefits of cloud-based services, such as increased sales and enhanced performance, highlighting the potential for competitive advantage and future growth for ABC Company. The report also incorporates Harvard referencing style.

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Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................1
Vendors for the cloud..................................................................................................................................1
Microsoft Azure:......................................................................................................................................1
Amazon Web Services (AWS)..................................................................................................................2
Dynamic scaling...........................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................5
References...................................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
ABC Company is a well-known company in the retail market in Australia. In addition, the company has
managed its business functions using advanced technologies and systems. In the present era, there are
many vendors available in the market for cloud-based services. However, they have different features
for organizations, such as email services, web survives and many more (Evans, 2017).
In addition, most of the companies have implemented cloud computing and other reverent technologies
for the management of their business processes in a proper manner. It provides high level of
performance, which makes a direct impact on the revenue and profit of the company (Blakstad &
Andreassen, 2016).
This report will discuss the two cloud providers in the market for implementing email and web services
for the ABC Company to improve their performance. In this report, dynamic scaling will provide using
various examples.
Vendors for the cloud
ABC Company wants to improve their performance using technologies and increase their scales for more
benefits and profits. In addition, there are some good vendors in the market, which provide the best
services for web services and email services, such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, and many others.
All those vendors are famous and popular in the market because of their better services in different
fields (Coles, 2018).
Moreover, cloud-based services are highly required to manage the different function of business of an
organization in a proper way. It provides a high level of performance and collaboration between
employees and processes. In addition, many things matter a lot in the implementation of cloud-based
services, such as uptime, downtime, availability, scalability, reliability, and many others (Denecken,
2017).
Microsoft Azure:
It the best cloud vendor in the market because of its four factors, which makes it different from others.
It provides a commitment to its services including AI, ML, and blockchain. It provides services in all three

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layers, which are IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS. It provides a high level of service to their clients. The company
has implemented various services in the market for different customers (Dinh, et al., 2013).
In addition, the company can adopt Azure for email and web services. It will charge a huge cost but it
provides better facilities without any issues. It will increase the rate of communication and collaboration
between different people of the company (Garg, et al., 2013).
It provides basic four services, which are computed, storage, networking, and analytics. It depends on
the users to choose services based on their requirements. They can migrate or design new services in
the public cloud. It uses a pay-as-you-go model for pricing. There are other methods are also available in
the company. In addition, users can use various services based on their subscription from a particular
vendor within minutes (Mahalle, et al., 2018).
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
There are many advantages of AWS in the implementation of various services. There are various mix
services provided by amazon including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. It was launched in 2006. It was the first
company that provides a pay-as-you-go cloud computing approach in which customers pay according to
their uses of services, such as storage, computation, and throughput. The company provides more than
100 services to their customers in different zones. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a new service,
which provides virtual servers to compute various things. AWA has provided auto-scaling tools to
dynamic scales to manage performance (Mohapatra, et al., 2015).

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Amazon Simple Storage Service (AS3) is helpful in the cold storage of a high level for long terms. It
provides various storage capabilities to IT professionals. In addition, Amazon Elastic Block Store has used
the cloud-based file storage. Moreover, AWS provides Amazon Simple Queue Service to manage the
message queue, which has used for sends, receives, and stores the messages. In addition, Amazon
Simple Notification Service (SNS) has used for the sub-messages in business. In addition, Amazon Simple
Email Services can use for the send and receive emails in business and marketers (Opara-Martins, et al.,
2016). Amazon provides different data management services to manage a large amount of data on
business functions of an organization, such as SQL, PostgreSQL, Maria DB, and many others. It provides a
data warehouse for real-time data applications (Pearson, 2013).
AWS provides different services and tools to migrate applications, databases, and services, such as AWS
migration hub, EC2 systems manager, and many more. AWS has provided virtual private cloud to
manage a secure network for cloud services including network load balance (Peter, 2016). It is an
interface to manage all the services without the implementation of IT infrastructures. In addition, cloud-
based services are better in the business perspective (Zhou, et al., 2017).
Cloud-based service has provided many benefits to the company in terms of increased sales, reputation,
and many others (Zhang, et al., 2010). AWS SDKs are to be had for a spread of systems and
programming languages, including Java, the personal home page, Python, Node.js, PHP, VB, Ruby, C++,
Android, COBOL, and iOS (Zhong & Rohde, 2014). Amazon API Gateway permits a development team to
create, manipulate, and reveal custom APIs that let applications get right of entry to data or capability
from again-give up services. API Gateway manages hundreds of concurrent API calls immediately (Yan,
et al., 2017).
In addition, AWS provides various services, which can be used in the future for the company. There are
many other advantages of AWS (Tajane, 2017). AWS is a huge vendor of cloud-based services because of
its proper management of services. Cloud-based services are better for the company to increase its
profits and performance (Sen, 2014). Cloud-based services have used for the improvement of various
processes. The company can use all these things to improve their performance (Schouten, 2014).
AWS affords number services for cloud safety, together with AWS IAM (identity and access
management) that permits admins to outline and manipulate persons to get admission to resources.
Moreover, AWS corporations enable a commercial enterprise to establish and manipulate regulations
for more than one AWS money owed (Mahalle, et al., 2018). The cloud issuer has additionally

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introduced equipment that automatically assesses ability safety dangers. Amazon Marcie makes use of
the system-learning era to shield sensitive cloud facts (Pearson, 2013).
Big data and data analytics has provided by the AWS to their customers to make decisions based on
their data for real-time and future perspectives. Is provides Elastic search service to monitor and log
analysis. In addition, Amazon Lex has used Chatbot technology for business purposes as well. Moreover,
Amazon Rekognition has used for facial and image analysis. Mobile development is another way to
choose AWs for cloud-based services (Mohapatra, et al., 2015).
AWS provides better management of online services and it provides higher uptime. In addition, AWS
makes many things possible based on their advance services (Yan, et al., 2017). It is a necessary thing to
use other technologies for the betterment of various business functions (Tajane, 2017). AWS has
charged for its services either on a per-second or per-hour basis, as it works based on the usages of
services (Garg, et al., 2013).
Dynamic scaling
The company can manage their web services and emails in a proper way using cloud-based services. The
company can migrate them for cloud-based services to enhance their performance, as email is a basic
thing for communication. In addition, the company can increase the size of employees and customers as
they can manage all of them using cloud-based services in an easy way.
Amazon's net services have a variety of commercial enterprise productivity SaaS options. In addition, the
company can secure various technologies form cyber-attacks. Besides, the AWS provider enables on-line
video meetings, calls, and textual content-based chats throughout the system. Those systems have
provided better business communication. In addition, a commercial enterprise can also take advantage
of various services of AWS (Garg, et al., 2013).
The company can increase its performance and growth in the present market using cloud-based services
from any vendor. It can provide solution to various problems, such as web services, email, and many
others.

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Conclusion
In conclusion, cloud-based service has enabled many opportunities for the company. It is a good way to
take a competitive advantage as well. In addition, the company can pay as they use different services.
There are some customizations available for the services.
This report has described the two cloud vendors, which are Microsoft and Amazon Web Services. The
company can use various services for managing their works in a proper way. Finally, cloud-based
services will provide many benefits to the company in the future.

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