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ABSTRACT:
Cloud computing is a pay as you go model that holds the potential of eliminating the requirement of setting up high cost and complex IT infrastructure. It provides flexible and scalable resources for easy access and development through portable devices. In cloud computing the entire data depends upon the networked resources, which can be shared over the internet.
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are often regarded as the leading infrastructure as a service clouds. In this paper, we have given brief details of Amazon and Microsoft Azure Cloud and it is very difficult to decide one cloud service provider from these two. In this paper we compare Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure which will help in taking decision for choosing one Cloud Service Provider.
KEYWORDS:
Amazon AWS, Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Service Provider
INTRODUCTION:
Cloud computing depends on sharing required resources rather than having local servers or personal devices to do some type of applications. Cloud computing is comparable to grid computing, a type of computing where unused processing cycles of all computers in a network to tackle and solve problems too hard for any stand-alone machine [5]. It provides needed resources which can be shared over internet [2]. A personal cloud storage service allows to synchronize their local information with server in the cloud. They have gained the popularity among many of the computer users after the companies started providing easy access and efficient storage space on effective pricing. More and more people are subscribing to these cloud storage services affordable with the prices and services provided by the companies [6]. In Amazon Web Services (AWS) the most central and well-known of all the services arguably include "EC2" Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute and "S3" Amazon Simple Storage Service
Officially since 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is completing its 10-year anniversary. Some may say that old, while others would say that Amazon took that time to build an excellent head start over its competition. One of those competitors, Microsoft Azure was introduced in 2010. But by this time had Amazon already had a strong lead in providing cloud services? Microsoft doesn't think so, clearly, and has been building its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering out from AWS' shadow ever since. Both are popular and leading Cloud Service Providers [3].
These companies are both global titans and also popular with the resources to make their respective cloud services as robust and expand them as they want. With server farms the size of actual farms, both are equipped to meet the needs of enterprises of any size. But while the question: "So which of the two is better for mybusiness?" is a simple one, the answer may be a little more complicated[7].
Microsoft Azure vs. Amazon AWS:
Feature and services
Selecting one from these two will come down to the wants and needs of each individual customer, and the workloads they are running. Sometimes organisations will use both providers within different parts of their operations, for different cases. May be there are various factors that separate the approaches of the two firms, which can help users decide which is right for them. It is important looking at the services offered by the two firms. Both AWS and Azure offer similar capabilities to some extent, along the lines of compute, storage and networking [4].
They both share common elements of a public cloud such as self-service and instant provisioning, auto scaling, security and some management services. Both companies are also investing to meet needs for new cloud services. This has resulted in more mature analytics offerings. For example, support for Hadoop clusters are provided by both AWS (Elastic Map Reduce) and Azure (HDInsight). Both AWS and Microsoft have added machine learning tools and a number of features targeted at the many number of Things, while customers can choose either cloud to variously build a app or even create high performance computing environment according to their needs.
Meanwhile the recent surveys proved, with both providers supporting Docker services. Microsoft has also been creating its own Hyper-V container technology that it will run in on-premise data centres as part of its forthcoming Windows Server 2016 release [8].
Microsoft & Amazon In Close Race For Windows Hosting
A internet site named Netcraft posted an article showing that Microsoft is slightly more than Amazon in a website hosting of Windows. The numbers are close with Netcraft listing 23,400 web-facing Windows computers at Microsoft and 22,600 at Amazon. According to Net craft regular analysis and their statistics, with a 50 percent growth rate in Azure websites since 2013, both Amazon and Microsoft each have "just over 1 percent of the market." While that number is not huge it still makes Amazon and Microsoft the two largest Windows hosting companies in the world, although Net craft states, "the market is still fragmented."
In a Microsoft Trends blog, Chris Woodill, representing the Netcraft post mentioned the potential for growth by staying, "The analysis currently represents only 1% of the world’s Windows based public facing web sites. Imagine the potential improvement for Azure to dominate such a market."
Microsoft Azure vs. Amazon AWS:
Pros and Cons
Although Amazon in many aspects has shortfalls as a part of Forrester’s scoring, it still rates high in most aspects of its services, and is generally better than other cloud service providers. Also, Azure rates higher than AWS in certain areas such as development and testing tools. And Microsoft already has a strong footing within an organization.
Windows Server, System Center and Active Directory are the key Microsoft on-premise systems Azure links well with. Both AWS and Azure have PaaScapabilities; this is strength of Microsoft’s. One of the disadvantages is a series of outages in recent months and years. Gartner analyst Lydia Leong has recommended considering disaster recovery capabilities away from Azure for critical applications hosted in the cloud.
Azure can be somewhat restrictive in comparison but AWS provides users with many options for supporting other platforms. Azure might not be the best solution if you want to run anything other than Windows Server. Microsoft claims to have open source platforms, but it currently provides ‘limited’ support for Linux operating systems [8].
CONCLUSION:
Cloud computing is based on the demand access to virtualized IT resources that are housed outside of your range , while you can share it with different services however use it easily in addition to that you can subscribe for this service with an inexpensive monthly fees, and navigate the web smoothly that has many features. The cloud service provider offers services of cloud computing such as Storage as a Service (Saas), Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas), and Platform as a service (Paas) so on. The present leading Cloud Service providers are Amazon and Azure. In this paper we listed Features, Services, Advantages, and Disadvantages etc. comparing both of them. This paper outlined a survey in cloud computing service providers Amazon and Azure, focusing on the long list services provided by these companies. We still have more work to do; we hope this paper will be considered as a starting point identifying opportunities for future.