This is an cloud awareness material which gives a quick sneak peak on cloud offerings and typical use cases for hybrid cloud .

1. Cloud Awareness
Sub Topic : Hybrid Cloud
Author : Suresh Subbu
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Adobe
VMware
IBM Cloud Rackspace
Red Hat
Salesforce
Oracle Cloud
SAP
Verizon Cloud Navisite
Dropbox
Egnyte

2. Contents
• Why Cloud ?
• Cloud Providers
• Top Cloud Providers
• Hybrid Cloud
• Discounts Comparison

3. Why Cloud ?
• OPEX Vs CAPEX
• Quick to Scale both ways
• Lower Environments made
easier
• Flexibility of changes
• Elasticity
• Automation
• Low cost comparing to Data
Centers

4. Cloud Providers
• Amazon Web
Services
• Microsoft
Azure
• Google Cloud
Platform
• Adobe
• VMware
• IBM Cloud
• Rackspace
• Red Hat
• Salesforce
• Oracle Cloud
• SAP
• Verizon Cloud
• Navisite
• Dropbox
• Egnyte
• Alibaba
Platform as a Service
Desktop as a Service
Infrastructure as a Service
Network as a Service
Storage as a Service
Database as a Service
Hosting as a Service

5. Top Cloud Providers
Top cloud providers in 2018 from a IaaS/PaaS/SaaS standpoint
Choosing the right Cloud Provider is
becoming a tough decision for CIO’s
,CTO’s and Technology Leaders.
We all know the large cloud players but
choosing the right provider & solution
depends on your enterprise’s needs.
 AWS
 Microsoft
 Google Cloud
 IBM Cloud
 Oracle
 Alibaba

6. Hybrid Cloud is a widely adapted
approach / solution where Private
Datacenters are connected to one
of more Public Datacenters in cloud
to consume a service.
• One use case is when you have
Testing environments and pay as
you use.
• Another use case is your data
layer staying on perm and
application layer on cloud.
• Last use case is creating a DR and
BCP on Cloud.
Private Cloud
/ Datacenter
Public
Cloud A
Hybrid Cloud
Public
Cloud B

7. Hybrid Cloud in Detail
Top cloud providers in 2018 from a IaaS/PaaS/SaaS standpoint
Hybrid solution is adapted when you want to have part
of the Infrastructure / Application Stack retained on
perm and rest into single cloud or multiple cloud
providers. This need may be driven my compliance
policies or Legacy Hardware or Application Dependency
like AS400, Tandem . . . Another use case is your ROI or
break even does not make sense for some of the
services due to huge datacenter investments.
Web Tier, Middle Ware, Security ,Database and Storage
Tiers end up on cloud for most of the customers.
 Scalable
 Cost Effective
 Microservices
 Redundant
 Hassell free
 Secured

8. Discounts
Comparison
• This is a volatile topic and
providers continue to drop
their prices of cloud offerings
by adding discounting options,
added instances, and dropped
the billing increments, in some
cases, to per second / hour
billing options.
• Based on the current market
Microsoft Azure generally has
the lowest on-demand and
discounted instance pricing,
while AWS runs at median.
Discount /
Service
Providers
AWS Azure Google Cloud IBM Cloud
Type of
Discount
Reserved
Instances
Reserved
Instances
Sustained Use
Discount (SUD)
Committed Use
Discount (CUD)
Monthly
pricing
Length of
Commitment
1 or 3 years 1 or 3 years
SUD: No
commitment
CUD: 1 or 3 years
Commit by
month
Range of
discount levels
Up to 75% Up to 72%
SUD: Up to 30%
CUD: 37% (1Y) or
55% (3Y)
About 10%
Other
documented
programs
RI volume
discounts
Spot
instances
Hybrid Use
Discount
Enterprise
Agreement
Pre-emptible VMs Negotiated