Cloud Provider Evaluation

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In this project, you will first learn about networking in the cloud and auxiliary cloud services provided by cloud vendors. Next, you will explore cloud computing trends, best practices, and issues involved in migrating IT deployments to the cloud, as well as typical architectures of cloud deployments. Then, you will apply your findings to propose a general architecture for BallotOnline’s cloud deployment to best address the company’s business requirements.

Once you have selected a deployment architecture, you will research two leading cloud vendors: Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Exploring and comparing the tools available for application migration will enable you to recommend a vendor to the executives in your final report. The final deliverable is a written report to BallotOnline management, describing the results of your research and recommending the cloud deployment architecture and the vendor for its deployment, with justification.

Your final report should demonstrate that you understand the IT needs of the organization as you evaluate and select cloud providers. The report should include your insights on the appropriate direction to take to handle the company’s IT business needs. You will also be assessed on the ability to integrate relevant risk, policy, and compliance consideration into the recommendations, as well as the clarity of your writing and a demonstration of logical, step-by-step decision making to formulate and justify your ideas.

Also working with AWS and Microsoft Azure and creating a report with a drawing of the architecture (hand-drawn or computer-created) diagram and explaining its elements.

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CLOUD PROVIDER EVALUATION In this project, you will first learn about networking in the cloud and auxiliary cloud services provided by cloud vendors. Next, you will explore cloud computing trends, best practices, and issues involved in migrating IT deployments to the cloud, as well as typical architectures of cloud deployments. Then, you will apply your findings to propose a general architecture for BallotOnline’s cloud deployment to best address the company’s business requirements. Once you have selected a deployment architecture, you will research two leading cloud vendors: Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Exploring and comparing the tools available for application migration will enable you to recommend a vendor to the executives in your final report. The final deliverable is a written report to BallotOnline management, describing the results of your research and recommending the cloud deployment architecture and the vendor for its deployment, with justification. Your final report should demonstrate that you understand the IT needs of the organization as you evaluate and select cloud providers. The report should include your insights on the appropriate direction to take to handle the company’s IT business needs. You will also be assessed on the ability to integrate relevant risk, policy, and compliance consideration into the recommendations, as well as the clarity of your writing and a demonstration of logical, step-by-step decision making to formulate and justify your ideas. Research Networking and Auxiliary Services in the Cloud The executives at BallotOnline have been impressed with your research on cloud computing thus far. While there are a variety of cloud providers, BallotOnline is considering using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, two of the top providers in the market. BallotOnline's executives want you to help determine which would be the best provider for the organization. Research Cloud Trends, Best Practices, and Migration Issues The cloud computing revolution is redefining ways that companies of all sizes use information technology. The cloud landscape shifts rapidly, and current trends reflect this rapid pace of change. You likely got an idea about this in the last step when you conducted research on cloud architecture. Now, continue gathering information for your final report by assessing: • issues outside the company, such as emerging issues in the industry, regulatory changes, and general trends in cloud computing to gain an understanding of how these issues may influence BallotOnline's decisions; • best practices for cloud implementation and assess whether BallotOnline can benefit from these; • cloud migration strategies for the application and data, since BallotOnline is moving an existing web application to the cloud, making sure that the application is configured properly for the system architecture of your cloud deployment; and • IT change management techniques that could help BallotOnline make this transition. Research Typical Architectures of Cloud Deployments In the previous step, you considered best practices and trends in the cloud industry. Next, you will have to look at the kinds of architectures needed for cloud. Because most elements of cloud deployments are implemented in a virtualized environment controlled by software, the degree of freedom in defining your deployment of cloud reference models is unprecedented. You can define the number of virtual servers required and the configuration, and even change them dynamically as needed. You can also define your virtual local area networks (LANs) and subnets, and place servers in them to implement network security requirements. The basic cloud deployment components are cloud consumer, cloud provider, and cloud carrier, with cloud brokers and auditor as possible additions. Typical cloud architectures of cloud deployments vary from single server (suitable for proof-of-concept engagements) and multiserver architectures with various servers carrying different software components and occupying different security zones, to geographically dispersed deployments to achieve high availability, resilience, and speed of delivery. There are several issues to consider when selecting a server architecture, including cost, scalability, performance, and use of management. For this step, research the typical architectures of cloud deployments and begin to consider what might be a good fit for BallotOnline. In the next step, you will continue research, this time on trends in cloud computing as well as issues that can arise during data migration. Propose Cloud Architecture for BallotOnline Deployment Now that you have looked into cloud architectures, in this step, you will propose the cloud deployment architecture for BallotOnline, applying the knowledge of typical architectural elements of cloud deployment from the project's initial step. You will also consider trends and migration issues from a previous step. Your recommendation should consider the company's business requirements. Describe your proposed architecture and include a diagram to provide leadership a way to envision the system. Recall that the company has an existing web application that it wants to move to the cloud, and also that the company wants to expand its business to other parts of the world. In earlier projects, you learned about and analyzed the IT business requirements for BallotOnline. Among them were demands for application and data security (https://lti.umuc.edu/contentadaptor/page/topic?keyword=Application%20and%20Data%20Secu rity), data encryption, and separation for deployments overseas. Also, the application should handle load peaks during election times in different regions. Specific technical requirements state that BallotOnline is a web application, written using the popular open-source LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) software suite and the PHP application. Describe your proposed architecture by submitting a report with a drawing of the architecture (hand-drawn or computer-created) diagram and explaining its elements. There are some sample drawings here under typical cloud architectures to give you an idea. (https://lti.umuc.edu/contentadaptor/page/topic?keyword=Typical%20Cloud%20Architectures) Research AWS In this step, you will explore AWS (https://us-east2.console.aws.amazon.com/console/home?region=us-east-2#) ( LOGIN: jwhite161@student.umuc.edu/ umuc161! ) and assess the feasibility of this platform for deploying the architecture proposed in the previous step. You should also consider issues related to AWS Pricing.( https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/) Based on your research, determine to what degree AWS supports the elements of the BallotOnline business and technical requirements. Research Microsoft Azure Now that you have had a chance to research AWS, it's time to explore Microsoft Azure, another cloud provider that could be used to deploy the proposed architecture. You should also consider issues related to Microsoft Azure pricing. BallotOnlinePOC-jennyrgoldstongmail Based on your research, determine to what degree Microsoft Azure supports the elements of the BallotOnline business and technical requirements. AWS Proof of Concept With your research complete, you will now deploy a simple onepage PHP application to the AWS cloud. As you may have already discovered in your research on AWS, it makes a cloud migration tool called Elastic Beanstalk https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/ available for customers to migrate their existing applications into the AWS cloud. We will use this tool to deploy your AWS proof of concept (POC). Generate Azure Proof of Concept (POC) Now that your AWS POC is complete, you can proceed with a similar POC deployment for the Microsoft Azure cloud. Upload the URL linking to your application running in the Azure portal. (https://ballotonlinepoc-jennyrgoldstongmail.azurewebsites.net) You are ready for the last step: writing the final report with recommendations on the cloud providers for the BallotOnline executives. Now that you have completed your research, shared your ideas with colleagues, and explored the two vendors, it is time to compile your findings and recommendations for the BallotOnline executives. You may find these considerations for cloud provider selection helpful in making your decisions. Use the Final Report Evaluating AWS and Azure Providers Template to write your report and submit your work. Write the Final Report Evaluating AWS and Azure Providers Now that you have completed your research, shared your ideas with colleagues, and explored the two vendors, it is time to compile your findings and recommendations for the BallotOnline executives. You may find these considerations for cloud provider selection helpful in making your decisions. Use the Final Report Evaluating AWS and Azure Providers Template (attached in separate document named and Azure Providers )to Report Evaluating AWS write your report and submit your work. Before you submit your assignment, review the competencies below, which your instructor will use to evaluate your work. A good practice would be to use each competency as a self-check to confirm you have incorporated all of them in your work. • 2.2: Locate and access sufficient information to investigate the issue or problem. • 2.3: Evaluate the information in a logical and organized manner to determine its value and relevance to the problem. • 2.4: Consider and analyze information in context to the issue or problem. • 2.5: Develop well-reasoned ideas, conclusions or decisions, checking them against relevant criteria and benchmarks. • 5.4: Articulate insights to leadership on the appropriate course of direction on the identified IT business needs. • 6.1: Articulate the systems architecture of the cloud - cloud infrastructure, cloud service, cloud platform, and cloud storage. • 6.6: Evaluate and select cloud providers (AWS, Azure, VMware, Google Cloud, IBM). • 6.8: Review, evaluate, and utilize emerging technologies related to cloud to support business needs. FTSP ENDPOINT: ftps://waws-prod-dm1-055.ftp.azurewebsites.windows.net/site/wwwroot USERNAME: BallotOnlinePOC-jennyrgoldstongmail\$BallotOnlinePOC-jennyrgoldstongmail PASSWORD: cFHJvK8yCmgHfWlZ0gtDo0KJmGgQAsXzXf1pSJhXHCHmgtxCTDoZbsTl6BlG Report Evaluating AWS and Azure Providers The report will be five to seven pages in length and should include source citations, as appropriate, in APA style. This report should include the following components: ● Title page ○ Include: for whom you are preparing the document, the title, the date prepared, and your name as the preparer of the document. ● Executive summary ○ Include: the purpose of the report and the intended audience. ○ Brief description of conducted research and POC deployments. ● Comparison of architecture deployment feasibility (from Steps 1 - 5) ○ Describe how the architecture proposed in Step 3 can be implemented in AWS and Azure environments, and compare ease of implementation. ○ Evaluate and compare efforts to implement BallotOnline business requirements. ○ Compare availability and ease of use for application scaling, geographical distribution, and network security measures. ○ Compare availability and ease of use of cloud services required by BallotOnline (database as a service, auditing, logging, application security, etc.). ○ Compare support for application migration and monitoring. ● Comparison of ease of deployment (from Steps 6 and 7) ○ Describe AWS and Azure capabilities for deploying web applications using the PHP language and MySQL database. ○ Compare ease of use of user interfaces, portals, and management consoles. ○ Compare POC environment deployment times. ● Comparison of costs ○ Discuss and compare pricing plans available, costs of servers, and services. ● Conclusions and recommendations ○ Present the final recommendation based on your research and POC deployment.
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Running head: MICROSOFT AZURE AND AMAZON WEB SERVICES EVALUATION

Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services Evaluation
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Executive Summary
Cloud computing services have been on a high demand recently, where businesses and
companies are seeking computing services that include data and information storage, databases,
networking, analytics, and software over the internet. By doing, businesses and companies are
enjoying faster and modern innovations and resources flexibility as well as a high level of
economies of scale. They also lower the cost of operations, and they are always in a better
position to run their infrastructure more efficiently since they focus on the main objectives of the
business (Botta et al., 2016). The purpose of this report is to have a clearer and better
understanding of cloud computing as well as evaluating two main cloud service providers who
are the Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. The two companies can be referred
to as the best as per now, but through analysis of the different services, they offer to their
customers. The intended audience is the BallotOnline executives who want to shift the
company’s Information Technology services to a cloud provider. Other audiences include other
companies and individuals who may be impressed by the content of this work. It can be a guide
where they can gather the necessary information about cloud computing services and service
providers in the market. This report has detailed research on cloud services and cloud service
providers, and later a clear proof of concept is derived where the best recommendations are made
based on the best practices and trends that have been and will be developed on cloud computing.
Comparison of Architecture Deployment Feasibility
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