Physical Servers
Expensive Difficult Ownership
Virtual Servers
Less Expensive Less Difficult More Flexibility
Vmotion/Live Migrate
Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing Definition Pricing Scalable Shared
Cloud Computing Cheap Easy? Flexible
Scaling for Load
Lost Money
Scaling for Load
Infrastructure as a Service Management Interface Native Access IT Pro
Infrastructure as a Service Options IT Pro
Amazon Web Services Small Instance $0.085/hr or $0.12/hr Win $228/yr Pre-Paid 1x1ghz/1.7gb RAM/160gb HD/x32 Extra Large Instance $0.68/hr or $0.96/hr Win $1820/yr Pre-Paid 4x2ghz/15gb RAM/1690gb HD/x64 EC2
Amazon Web Services Storage $0.15/gb/mth for 0-100TB $0.13/gb/mth for TB $0.12/gb/mth for 500TB+ Data Transfer $0.10/gb Transferred In $0.17/gb Transferred Out $0.10/gb Transferred Out after 150TB S3
Amazon Web Services RDS (aka Hosted MySQL) Instance $0.11/hr to $3.10/hr Storage $0.10/gb/mth Free Backup SimpleDB (non-relational) First 25hrs Free $0.14/hr Plus bandwidth MySQL/ SimpleDB
RightScale Automate Lock-in Simplify
Platform as a Service Development Interface Developer
Platform as a Service Learning Curve Vendor Lock-In Really Easy
Azure Pricing Windows Azure $0.12/hr to $0.96/hr $0.15 / GB SQL Azure 1gb relational database $9.99/mth 10gb relational database $99.99/mth AppFabric Access Control $1.99/100k transactions Service Bus $9.95/5 connections
Azure MSDN Benefit
Google App Engine Pricing Free Quota 1,300,000 requests a day 1gb Ingoing & Outgoing 6.5 CPU-Hours ~5 Million Page Views/mth After Free Quota $0.10 per CPU hour $0.10/gb Data Transfer $0.15/gb/mth Data Storage
Software as a Service Service User
Software as a Service App in Cloud WebApp?
Cloud Adoption
Physical v. Virtual Very High Resource UsageCan NOT use VM
… v. Cloud Computing Regulatory or Policy Issues?Internet Dependency?Stable Load?Predictable Load?
Microsoft MVP, Directory Services Blog – Twitter President of SerkTools ( – Content Creation for Customers Screencast, Whitepapers, Blogging, Events – Consulting Microsoft IT Infrastructure (Active Directory, SQL, SharePoint, Exchange, Identity, etc) Cloud Computing (especially AWS) Steve Evans