Functional overview of Gartner's in-depth assessment of AWS and Azure and the decision factors that customers can use to decide between them.

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2. Gartner delivers the technology-related
insight necessary for our clients to make
the right decisions, every day.
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3. Amazon Web Services or
Microsoft Azure?
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4. Microsof t Amazon
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5. But the Race Has Just Begun …
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6. And More Providers Are Giving Chase …
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7. Amazon Web Services or
Microsoft Azure?
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8. Evaluation Criteria for Cloud IaaS
• 205 Individual Criteria
• Required, Preferred,
Optional
• Interactive Excel Tool
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9. Evaluation Categories
• Compute
• Storage
• Networking
• Security & Access
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• Service Offerings
• Support & Service Levels
• Management & DevOps
• Price & Billing

10. Provider In-Depth Assessments
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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. Choose Amazon Web
Services if …
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15. You Require Significant
Scalability and Automation
Offerings
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16. You Require
Local and Global Availability
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17. AWS Availability Blueprint
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18. Your Business Demands a
Robust Application
Marketplace
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19. 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

20. You Depend Upon the
Most Robust Feature Set
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22. Security
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23. Firewalls & ACLs Data locale
Security
control
RBAC - Compute RBAC - Network
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24. Choose Microsoft Azure if …
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25. .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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26. You Can Accept
Scalability Limitations
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27. 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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28. You Use Azure PaaS or
Office 365 and Prefer a
Single Provider
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29. 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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30. You Need a Contingency
Plan for AWS
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31. It Benefits You Financially
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32. "Net It Out for Me"
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33. AWS
Easy & Rapid
Scale
Infrastructure-centric
Azure
Integrated
Sales
Multicloud
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34. Stay Tuned
Google Cloud Platform
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35. 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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36. 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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