Cloud Systems and Applications: Recommendation Report Analysis

This report analyzes cloud systems and applications for Gymmie Tech, a security company in London, facing bandwidth issues in storing passenger movement data. The report assesses private clouds, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure (MS Azure) to recommend the best cloud service. It examines service level agreements, security strategies, cost, and cloud management principles. The study compares private and public cloud benefits and challenges, focusing on AWS and MS Azure's pricing, compute, storage, database, networking, orchestration, container support, and compliance. The report suggests MS Azure for its robust security features, including encrypted data and links, threat detection, and DDoS protection, making it suitable for storing and securing large datasets. The report also analyzes the pricing models, compute services, storage services, database services, networking services, orchestration and container support, and compliance of AWS and MS Azure.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Answer to Question 1......................................................................................................................2
Private Cloud...............................................................................................................................2
Amazon Web Service..................................................................................................................4
Microsoft Azure...........................................................................................................................5
Answer to Question 2......................................................................................................................7
Answer to Question 3....................................................................................................................11
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................13
Reference.......................................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
A security company Gymmie Tech that is situated in London. This organization monitors
the passenger’s movement and other activities in the train stations of London. They also record
the incident or accident in the stations. However, there is a problem of the bandwidth in storing
the huge data of their record. For this reason, the organization is planning for deploying the cloud
service for storing their data securely but they are considering to have the private cloud or to
choose the AWS (Amazon Web Service) or MS Azure (Microsoft Azure). Therefore, the aim of
this study is to analyze the benefits that will be based on the service level agreements, security
strategies, cost and the principles of cloud management in order to suggest the organization the
best cloud service for storing their data. This study also analyzes both the private and public
cloud and analyzes their benefits and challenges to conduct a comparison between the cloud
services to make a suggestion for the organization to choose the best platform.
Answer to Question 1
Private Cloud
Private cloud is a form of the cloud computing, which is used by any single organization,
which ensures that the organization is isolated from other organization. As this cloud service is
dedicated to single company, this can be architected for meeting the specific needs of the
organization. Private cloud offers the security, cost savings, control and flexibility benefits.
Benefit of Private Cloud

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The key benefit of private cloud, the company Gymmie Tech can achieve by running the
IT system in the private cloud are strong security, regulatory compliance, cost savings in some
cases, guaranteed resource availability and flexibility.
Most of the benefits of private cloud are delivered by virtualization technology, which
underlies every cloud platform (Purcell 2014). Most of the servers are underused and the private
cloud service is provided by the virtualization technology with utilization of improved resources
as the workload or the storage of the huge amount of data may be deployed to the different server
as the resource demand change.
The improved resource utilization and the flexibility can help the company for ensuring
the performance of the application and it reduces the cost. Lower cost of private cloud is
considered for being the main benefit of private cloud service.
Challenges of Private Cloud
Some of the challenges of using the private cloud are:
The environment of cloud computing can be hampered by the wrong infrastructure,
created by the organization. This is due to the system that runs on the separate silos, which is
broken up by the disparate cloud server, networking, virtualization and storage creates the
unwanted complexity.
If the private cloud is running on the legacy on-demand infrastructure, there can be
another issue such as they can be locked in the virtualization service provider (Ali, Khan and
Vasilakos 2015). Regardless to the hypervisor, the client or the organization will be associated
unwillingly with the single vendor’s service.

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Because of the limitations in the physical hardware with the private cloud service
provider, a capacity can be there for managing the particular amount of storage or servers.
Amazon Web Service
AWS (Amazon Web Services) is the most recognized leader in the cloud service
providers that offers the ecosystem, which is included with the continual and full support for the
emerging organizations (Narula and Jain 2015). The users of AWS can be benefited by getting
the service at very low cost that does not have upfront cost. This platform is very easy to use and
there is no need to worry about the AWS servers, database and security. This service has
multiple benefits that make the organization or client to rely on the service. This service has
many challenges but the challenges do not affect the organization much.
Benefit of AWS
 AWS is the most volatile and reliable cloud service provider.
 This setup is very easy to use for the information technology department.
 AWS is specially designed for the SMEs and this provide the low amount of initial
investment and pay for the service only, the organization will use without any hidden
policies or long-term contract (Mathew and Varia 2014).
 AWS offers the best scalable solution, which help the business to scale up and down
easily when needed.
Challenges of AWS
There are multiple challenges of AWS such as:

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 AWS sets the default limits on the resources that vary from one place to another. The
resources can be included with the snapshots, volumes and images. The organization can
launch the specific number of the aspects per region. This provides the limited
information or data for the resources of public cloud that is managed by the Amazon
VPC or Amazon EC2 console (Varia and Mathew 2014).
 AWS has some of the cloud computing issues while moving to the cloud such as backup
protection, limited control ad downtime.
 As security and privacy is the main characteristics of AWS, this cloud platform changes
some of its features that is not possible to change are:
 EC2 classic: It allows maximum 500 instances and every security group has the
maximum 100 permissions.
 EC2-VPC: This allows each VPC up to 100 groups of security
Microsoft Azure
MS Azure is the group of cloud service, which is designed for meeting the needs of the
business (Bjørner and Jayaraman 2015). This is designed for giving the business the freedom for
building, deploying and managing the applications on the global network without giving up the
best tools or frameworks.
Benefit of MS Azure
 MS Azure makes the scalability easy for the organization to compute. With the scalable
structure, the organization can have the flexibility for paying only for the services they
are using.

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 MS Azure allows the organization for launching the internal applications and client
application that saves the cost of IT framework while minimizing the maintenance and
hardware burdens on the IT management (Collier and Shahan 2015).
 MS Azure has built in the disaster recovery option and backups are very easy with taking
the snapshot or real time mirroring at the vital intervals.
 As security of the data is the main concern of the organization, MS Azure as the full-time
security team that is managing the platform of Azure.
Challenges of MS Azure
Some of the challenges in using the MS Azure are:
 This platform needs to be maintained and managed expertly that includes server
monitoring and patching (Copeland et al. 2015).
 Unlike the local servers, MS Azure needs expertise for ensuring the moving parts are
working together.
By the analysis of the three platform of cloud, computing this can be suggested to the
organization that they should choose the public cloud as the organization is associated with many
other organizations. For the organization, MS Azure will be the best platform for storing and
securing their huge amount of data as MS Azure will provide multiple security option such as
encrypted data and encryption of the links (Kotas, Naughton and Imam 2018). By conducting a
threat detection analysis, integration of the Active Directory sign-on, security and the DDoS
protection become very easy for the users.

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Answer to Question 2
While defining the strategy and approaches of cloud computing, the organization can
choose the public cloud. With the public cloud, the hardware of the system can be shared by
multiple organizations (Goyal 2014). The various environments can make it easy for splitting the
cost of the infrastructure among the users of the service. Due to the pay-as-you-go model and
cost benefit, the public cloud can be ideal for the organization. The public-facing and non-
sensitive web application can bring unpredictable traffic over the network, which can leverage
the public cloud of the company (Dantas et al. 2015). This report analyzes the strategies of both
the AWS and MS Azure cloud computing for making it easy for organization to choose best loud
computing between them.
Pricing
Both the pricing model of AWS and MS Azure provides the structure for pay-as-you-go.
AWS will charge the organization based on hourly uses where the MS Azure will charge the
organization based on uses per minute (Qaisi and Aljarah 2016). When the organization chooses
the short-term plan for subscription, MS Azure provides much more flexibility. In case of some
services, MS Azure can be expensive than AWS while scaling up the architecture.
Compute Services
Computer parameter is the next halt in the comparison of MS Azure and AWS. When it
comes to the cloud computing, the compute service is one the main service that is understandable
in the cloud computing (Jackson and Clynch 2018). With the huge data or information being
generated, there is a requirement for the faster processing. Computation ensures that the

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organizations are able to spawning the instances and scaling up the instances if required. Te MS
Azure and AWS have the computation service, which cater the requirements.
Storage Services
Both MS Azure and AWS provide the reliable and long-running storage services. MS
Azure has services like Disk storage, Standard achiever and Blob storage whereas AWS has the
services like Glacier, EBS and AWS S3.
AWS S3 ensures the automatic replication and high availability over the platform. AWS
starts functioning every time the instances stop and start, when it comes to the AWS’s temporary
storage. On the termination, AWS provides the storage for blocks that is similar to the hard
disks, which can be connected with the EC2 instances or can be kept isolated.
With the MS Azure, this utilizes the page blobs and temporary storage for the volume of
VM (Persico et al. 2015). MS Azure has the option for Block Storage as the counterpart of the S3
in AWS. Moreover, MS Azure provides a pair of storage such as hot storage and cold storage.
Database Services
The data or information that is generated comes in various forms. Therefore, the
database, which holds the data, should be evolved. MS Azure and AWS provide thee various
services of database for managing the unstructured and structured data.
If the organization looks for the durability, AWS has the Amazon RDS but the MS Azure
has the Azure SQL database of sever (Mukherjee 2019). MS Azure supports the SQL Server
Database that is based on thee SQL of the database but when it comes to the AWS, Amazon
RDS supports the various engines of database such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora,

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Microsoft SQL, Oracle and MariaDB. If the organization considers the interface, MS Azure has
the smoother or friendlier interface, where AWS has better provisioning with the more instances.
Networking Services
The VPC of Amazon enables the isolated network creations under the umbrella of cloud
(Anthony 2018). AWS VPC enables the users or clients for creating the ranges of private IP
address, route tables, network gateways and subnets.
MS Azure as the counterpart to the VPC allows the organization so all their tasks of
VPC. Both the vendors of the cloud service provider have the solution for extending the data
center that is on-premises in the firewall and cloud option.
Orchestration and Container Support
AWS offers matured analytics and Big Data. This has multiple different services in the
arsenal, which covers the domains such as Internet of Things, Development of Mobile
application and creation of the environment of cloud computing that depends on the
requirements. AWS supports the Docker as well.
MS Azure has the same characteristics and it offers the Hadoop that support the services
such as Azure HDInsight (Terzi, Terzi and Sagiroglu 2017). MS Azure provides the integration
and collaboration with the Docker for the Hyper-V containers and Windows containers.
Compliance
Amazon has the great collaboration with government agencies that ensure the better
offerings for the government cloud (Pizarro and Whalley 2014). AWS provides the better

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security measures, that ensures the proper access to the users when this comes to the accessing to
the cloud, this aspect can be vital while dealing with the confidential and sensitive data.
MS Azure provides more than 50 offerings to the organization in which some of the
notable offerings are included with the HIPAA, FIPS, ITAR, CJIS and DISA.
License, Fees and License Mobility
AWS always provides the clients a headache free licensing. This is the matter of the
payment of the license, which the organization is using no matter which offering is provided by
AWS, but if the organization have the licenses of Microsoft that is already paid, the organization
will be eligible for the license mobility (Fowley, F. and Pahl, C., 2016). This means that the
organization does not have to pay double to use the same server applications of Microsoft that
the organization will be using. MS Azure has the similar mobility and license standards (Al-
Sayyed et al. 2019). Estimated cost for the utilization of the MS Azure or AWS can be little
complex to come up with, however, both the services offers cost calculators, which the users can
utilize for getting the idea of how the user can expect for spending on the cloud platform.
Features
Based on the features, the organization can find that MS Azure offers multiple features,
whereas, it is very difficult to come up with the features list of the AWS. Some of the MS Azure
services, which are not relevant to AWS, are Azure Site Recovery, Azure Visual Studio Online,
Azure Scheduler and Azure Event Hubs.
Choosing the appropriate cloud service provider for the organization is very important
and vital decision for the organization. MS Azure offers the PaaS and hybrid solution with

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multiple beneficial features that are very essential for the cloud strategy for the organization.
There can be the better business growth by moving to the public cloud MS Azure. Therefore, MS
Azure can be the better choice for being implemented in the organization compared to AWS.
Answer to Question 3
If the client or the organization chooses to go with the AWS service, then S3 (Simple
Storage Service) will be the best option for storing their data with greater security. The
organization can utilize the Amazon S3 service for storing and retrieving the data anytime
anywhere form the web (Newcombe et al. 2015). One of the very common uses of the Amazon
S3 is to store and distribute the static media and web content. S3 is the component of the
Amazon Web Services, which provides the durable, cost effective, highly scalable and reliable
object storage. The IT teams and the developer of the organization will be able to use this service
for their multiple projects such as data storage, data analytics, content distribution, cloud
application, disaster recovery and backup and archiving. The design of S3 aims to ensure the low
latency, high availability and scalability. The overall volume of the information or data and the
object number, which may be stored are not limited. The size of the stored data can be from 1
byte to 5 terabyte. The simple interface of web allows the organization in creating, storing and
retrieving the data anytime anywhere using internet. Some of the benefits that the organization
can get using the AWS S3 service are:
Data Security
S3 service supports the high standard of the security for the AWS projects, therefore, the
data will be well protected from the physical and logical failures and the S3 service prevents the
loss of the data due to the errors in the application, infrastructure failures and unintended actions