Discuss about the case study Cloud Computing for Cloud Service Providers.
Cloud computing is defined as a model which enables ubiquitous, on- demand access of network for sharing a pool of configurable resources of computing. In this report, Amazon is selected as a cloud-computing provider (Collins, 2014). The content of the report comprises of list of computing providers, their models, and justification for selecting Amazon as cloud computing provider and comparison of services provided by Amazon with Bluemix.
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Serial No. |
Names of Cloud Service Providers |
Provided Services |
Models of Cloud service providers |
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1. |
Amazon |
Amazon Web services |
1. 1.Platform as a Service 2. 2. Infrastructure as a Service |
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2. |
IBM |
1. IBM Cloud 2. IBM Bluemix Services (Ibm.com, 2016) |
1. PaaS (Platform as a Service) 2. IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) 3. SaaS (Software as a service) |
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3. |
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Google Compute Cloud |
PaaS (Platform as a Service) |
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4. |
Microsoft |
Microsoft Azure |
PaaS (Platform as a Service) |
There are several reasons behind selecting Amazon Web Services. The reasons are:
Performance: The most well-known services provided by Amazon are EC2 and Amazon S3. The power of Performance of AWS is in the storage (Amazon Web Services, Inc., 2016). The reliability of Amazon web services is better than Bluemix. The application is helpful in randomly powering down a component in the environment of Cloud Computing.
Security: For minimizing the effect of outages and for ensuring the robustness of the system it is geographically used. AWS uses an end-to-end approach in order to provide security and for hardening its infrastructure (Amazon Web Services, Inc., 2016). Virtual Amazon Private Cloud is provided by AWS, which is used for hosting the services on a network that is private. The network cannot be accessed from the internet.
Cloud Service Models
IBM Bluemix uses three types of cloud service models. The service models that they use are as follows:Platform as a service, Infrastructure as a service and Software as a service. IaaS gives basic resources of computing including networking, servers and data center space and many more. IaaS is considered as the foundation layer of IBM Bluemix. PaaS helps in providing a combination of platform and infrastructure software (Console.ng.bluemix.net, 2016). It includes application development that is cloud based, database software and hardware environment. Saas helps in providing network related access to network.
On the other hand Amazon Web services only use Paas and IaaS cloud service model. Amazon web services uses PaaS cloud service model for offering an environment of development to application developers (Amazon Web Services, Inc., 2016). They specially develop a standard for the development for distribution. The SaaS model is used for gaining access to application software and databases.
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Cloud Service Models |
Amazon Web Services |
IBM Bluemix |
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Platform as a Service (PaaS) |
1.Application services:- · Message Queue Service (SQS) · AppStream · Elastic Transcoder · Email Sending Service (Amazon Web Services, Inc., 2016). |
1. Application Services: · Data Cache · Session cache · WebSphere application server (Ibm.com, 2016) |
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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) |
1. Compute services: · EC2 (Virtual Servers in the Cloud) · Lambda 2. Networking: · VPC (Isolated Cloud Resources) · Route 53 3. Storage: · S3 (Scalable Storage in the Cloud) · Storage Gateway · Cloud Front |
1. Networking: · Virtual private network · Content Delivery 2. Storage: · Object storage (YourStory.com, 2014). |
Fig 1: Screenshot of services provided by IBM Bluemix
Fig 2: Screenshot of services provided by Amazon Web Services
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Services offered for Smart Application Model |
Amazon Web Services |
IBM Bluemix |
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Internet of Things Application |
· AWS IoT |
· IoT for electronics · Internet of Things Platform · Context Mapping (YourStory.com, 2014). |
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Artificial Intelligent Application |
Amazon Cloud introduces the service of Artificial Intelligent |
Watson Services Introduces the service of Artificial Intelligent (Console.ng.bluemix.net, 2016). |
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Platform Design |
Amazon web Services works on AWS platform (Amazon Web Services, Inc., 2016). |
IBM Bluemix uses Cloud Foundry for Platform Design. It offers various plugin like Bluemix tool to integrate Eclipse development (Ibm.com, 2016) |
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Application Development |
· Amazon API Gateway · Amazon Cloud Search · Amazon App Stream |
· Data Cache · Session cache · WebSphere application server |
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Deployment Process |
· Cloud Formation · Code Deploy · Ops Works |
· Virtual Machine Deployment |
Amazon web services provide a number of services including storage, database, computing and many more. All the facilities provided by the cloud service provider helps the organization in moving faster. Pricing for all the applications are different and they does not have complex dependencies or requirement of licensing. For example GPU instances require $ 2.6 per hour (Amazon Web Services, Inc., 2016). On the other hand IBM Bluemix also follows various pricing strategies. For example NodeJS cost $24.15 (Ibm.com, 2016). For language Ruby Sinatra, $ 175.35 is charged by IBM Bluemix to large enterprises.
IBM Bluemix is the best service provider. This is due to the following reasons:
Conclusion
It is concluded that Bluemix is the best provider. Both Amazon Web Services and IBM Bluemix uses Platform based and infrastructure based cloud service models but the virtual machine deployment in Bluemix helps in controlling the entire stack of software. Amazon web services uses PaaS cloud service model for offering an environment of development for application developers. It is concluded by analyzing the cloud service models used by both the providers. It is analyzed that IBM Bluemix uses Cloud Foundry for its platform designing while Amazon web Services works on AWS platform.
References
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Collins, E. (2014). Big Data in the Public Cloud. IEEE Cloud Comput., 1(2), pp.13-15.
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Ibm.com. (2016). IBM Bluemix – The cloud platform to accelerate innovation on both sides of the firewall. [online] Available at: https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/?cm_mmc=Search_gsn-_-Cloud_Bluemix_Keyword-Branded_Try-_-WW_IN-_-ibm%20bluemix_Exact [Accessed 8 Aug. 2016].
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