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the right decisions, every day. 
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Amazon Web Services or 
Microsoft Azure? 
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Microsof t Amazon 
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But the Race Has Just Begun … 
Mile 
1 
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Mile 
26
And More Providers Are Giving Chase … 
Mile 
1 
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Mile 
26
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
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 18 14 11 
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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 
Compute 
100% 
75% 
50% 
25% 
0% 
Storage 
Network 
Security & Access 
Service Offerings 
Price & Billing 
Management & 
DevOps 
Support & Service 
Levels 
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AWS Azure
Choose Amazon Web 
Services if … 
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You Require Significant 
Scalability and Automation 
Offerings 
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You Require 
Local and Global Availability 
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AWS Availability Blueprint 
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Your Business Demands a 
Robust Application 
Marketplace 
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Citrix NetScaler F5 Big-IP 
OS Stacks 
SAP Hana 
2050+ 
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LAMP Stacks 
Tibco Jaspersoft 
New Relic 
Cisco 1000V 
Your Business Demands a 
Robust Application 
Marketplace
You Depend Upon the 
Most Robust Feature Set 
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Security 
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Firewalls & ACLs Data locale 
Security 
control 
RBAC - Compute RBAC - Network 
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Choose Microsoft Azure if … 
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.NET PowerShell 
Systems Center 
SharePoint 
Dynamics 
You Are Deeply Invested in 
Microsoft Technologies 
Exchange Active Directory 
SQL Server 
Hyper-V Premier Support 
Visual Studio 
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You Can Accept 
Scalability Limitations 
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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 
• RBAC limitations for compute and networking 
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You Use Azure PaaS or 
Office 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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"Net It Out for Me" 
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AWS 
Easy & Rapid 
Scale 
Infrastructure-centric 
Azure 
Integrated 
Sales 
Multicloud 
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Stay Tuned 
Google Cloud Platform 
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Recommendations 
ü Create your unique IaaS evaluation criteria set. 
ü Evaluate providers against your criteria: 
- Trust that AWS and Azure are the current 
criteria leaders. 
- Do not discard other players in the market. 
ü Forecast your future provider requirements: 
- Prioritize feature breadth and innovation? 
- Prioritize history, relationship and integration? 
ü Select a provider and begin using, but NEVER sit idle. 
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Recommended Gartner Research 
è Evaluation Criteria for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service 
Kyle Hilgendorf (G00259331) 
è Amazon Web Services: In-Depth Assessment 
Kyle Hilgendorf (G00263761) 
è Microsoft Azure: In-Depth Assessment 
Kyle Hilgendorf (G00263763) 
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