7. Gartner Magic Quadrant for
Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
August 2013
Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure a Service,” Lydia Leong, Douglas Toombs, Bob Gill, Gregor Petri, Tiny Hayn, October 18, 2012. This Magic Quadrant graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research note and
should be evaluated in the context of the entire report.. The Gartner report is available upon request from Steven Armstrong (asteven@amazon.com). Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research
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8. What is AWS?
Deployment & Administration
Application Services
Compute
Storage
Database
Networking
AWS Global Infrastructure
9. Compute Services
Amazon EC2
Auto Scaling
Elastic Load
Balancing
Elastic Virtual
servers in the cloud
Automated scaling
of EC2 capacity
Dynamic traffic
distribution
EC2
Actual
10. Storage Services
Amazon EBS
Amazon S3
Amazon Glacier
AWS Storage Gateway
Block storage for use
with Amazon EC2
Internet scale
storage via API
Storage for archiving
and backup
Integrates onpremises IT and AWS
storage
S3, Gla
cier
EBS
Images
Videos
Files
Binaries
Snapshots
Images
Videos
Files
Binaries
Snapshots
12. Networking Services
Amazon VPC:
Private, isolated
section of the AWS
Cloud
AWS DirectConnect
Amazon Route 53
Private connectivity
between AWS and
your datacenter
Domain Name
System (DNS) web
service.
Availability
Zone A
Availability
Zone B
14. Big Data Services
Amazon EMR
(Elastic Map Reduce)
AWS Data Pipeline
Amazon Redshift
Hosted Hadoop
framework
Move data among
AWS services and
on-premises data
sources
Petabyte-scale data
warehouse service
15. Deployment & Administration
Amazon
CloudWatch
Monitor resources
AWS IAM
(Identity &
Access Mgmt)
Manage
users, groups &
permissions
AWS
OpsWorks
AWS
CloudFormation
Dev-Ops framework
for application
lifecycle
management
Templates to
deploy & manage
Web App
Enterprise
App
Database
AWS Elastic
Beanstalk
Automate resource
management
16. Every Imaginable Use Case
Free steak
campaign
Facebook
page
Mars
exploration ops
Consumer
social app
Ticket pricing
optimization
SAP &
Sharepoint
Securities Trading
Data Archiving
Gene
sequencing
Marketing
web site
Interactive
TV apps
Financial
markets
analytics
R&D data
analysis
Consumer
social app
Big data
analytics
Web site &
media sharing
Disaster
recovery
Media
streaming
Web and
mobile apps
Streaming
webcasts
Facebook
app
Consumer
social app
17. The Benefits Of Cloud
… Are Only Possible IN THE CLOUD
Pay as you
Go
Lower
Overall
Costs
Stop
Guessing
Capacity
Agility /
Speed /
Innovation
Avoid
Undifferentia
ted Heavy
Lifting
Go Global in
Minutes
✔
On premise/
Private
Cloud
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
X
X
X
X
X
X
18. 1. Pay For Infrastructure as you Need it,
Not Up Front
OnPremises
$0 to get started
Pay as you go
19. 2. Lower Total Cost of IT
Scale allows us to
constantly reduce our
costs
We are comfortable running a
high volume, low margin
business
More than
We pass the savings along
to our customers in the form
of low prices
20. 3. You Don’t Need to Guess Capacity
AWS
Actual demand
Actual demand
Customer
Dissatisfaction
Self
Hosting
Waste
Predicted
Demand
Rigid
Elastic
21. 4. Increase Innovation:
Experiment Fast with Low Cost and Low Risk
On-Premises
$ Millions
Experiment Infrequently
Failure is expensive
Less Innovation
Nearly $0
Experiment Often
Fail quickly at a low
cost
More Innovation
22. 5. Get Rid of
“Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting”
We take care of it…
Data Centers
Power
Cooling
Cabling
Networking
Racks
Servers
Storage
Labor
So you don’t have to …
Buy and install new hardware
Setup and configure new software
build or upgrade data centers
24. Cost Optimization
using different purchase models
Free Tier
On-Demand
Reserved
Spot
Get Started on
AWS with free
usage & no
commitment
Pay for compute
capacity by the
hour with no longterm
commitments
Make a low, onetime payment and
receive a
significant discount
on the hourly
charge
Bid for unused
capacity, charged at a
Spot Price which
fluctuates based on
supply and demand
For POCs and
getting started
For spiky
workloads,
or to define
needs
For committed
utilization
For time-insensitive or
transient workloads