A Comparison of AWS and Azure - Part 1

Rob Gillen
Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure (Part 1)

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Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure
Rob Gillen
rob.gillenfamily.net
@argodev
Session 1 of 2

Agenda
Session 1
Market Overview
Discussion of cloud primitives
Session 2
Vendor-specific Lessons-Learned
Guestbook – a side-by-side code comparison

Types of Clouds
Private
(On-Premise)
Infrastructure
(as a Service)
Platform
(as a Service)
You manage
Applications
Applications
Applications
You manage
Runtimes
Runtimes
Runtimes
Security & Integration
Managed by vendor
Databases
Databases
Databases
You manage
Servers
Servers
Servers
Managed by vendor
Virtualization
Virtualization
Virtualization
Server HW
Server HW
Server HW
Storage
Storage
Storage
Networking
Networking
Networking

Types of Clouds
Private
(On-Premise)
Infrastructure
(as a Service)
Platform
(as a Service)

Where They Fit
Infrastructure As A Service
Platform As A Service
Two Years Ago
Now
Two Years from Now ???
Microsoft Windows Azure
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services
Compute As A Service
Amazon Web Services

AWS Stack
Elastic Compute Cloud
Elastic Map Reduce
Auto Scaling
Cloud Front
SimpleDB
Relational Database Service
Simple Storage Svc
Elastic Block Storage
Simple Queue Service
Simple Notification Service
CloudWatch
Virtual Private Cloud
Elastic Load Balancing
Import/Export
Cloud Formation
Elastic BeanStalk

Windows Azure Stack
Application Services
“Dublin”
“Velocity”
Frameworks
“Geneva”
Security
Access Control
Azure Connect
Connectivity
Service Bus
SQL Azure Data Sync
Data
Compute
Table Storage
Blob Storage
Queue
Drive
Content Delivery Network
Storage

Storage
Amazon Web Services
Windows Azure
S3
Buckets
EBS
SDB
domains
Easy to use
SQS
CloudFront
AWS Import/Export
Blob Storage
Containers
Azure Drive
Table Storage
Tables
More painful than it should be
Queues
CDN

Databases
Amazon Web Services
Windows Azure
MySQL
Oracle
Multi-AZ Mode
MS SQL
SQL Sync

Compute
Amazon Web Services
Windows Azure
Raw VM Access
EBS/S3-based Booting
Specialized Nodes (CCI, CCI+GPU)
Elastic Map Reduce
Black-Box access (Worker Role/Web Role)
VM Role is non-persistent

Networking
Amazon Web Services
Windows Azure
IP / Elastic IP / ELB
Virtual Private Cloud
Route 53
ELB
Firewall heavily configurable
Automatic IP assignment/Load-balancing – No Static IPs available
Azure Connect
Built-in Load Balancing
Endpoints defined in csdef/cscfg

Deployment
Amazon Web Services
Windows Azure
Amazon Machine Instance (AMI)
Traditional Deployment Models
Fine-grained updates
More Responsibility
Less magic
Elastic Beanstalk
Cloud Formation
Cspkg (fancy zip file)
Upload via portal or API via blob storage
Course-grained updates
“click to scale”
More magic

Middleware
Amazon Web Services
Windows Azure
Simple Notification Services
CloudWatch/AutoScale ??
Simple Email Services
Service Bus
Caching
Access Control

Tooling
Amazon Web Services
Windows Azure
Command line
REST-API
Web Portal
Numerous 3rd Party Tools
No local dev/test
Web Portal
Rest API
Visual Studio Extensions
Numerous 3rd Party Tools
Dev Fabric (great for compute, OK for storage)

Questions?
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