Abstract
Cloud computing is one of the paradigms that have undertaken to deliver the utility computing concept. It views computing as a utility similar to water and electricity. We aim in this paper to make an investigation of two highly efficacious Cloud platforms: Microsoft Azure (Azure) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) from users’ perspectives the point of view of users. We highlight and compare in depth the features of Azure and AWS from users’ perspectives. The features which we shall focus on include (1) Pricing, (2) Availability, (3) Confidentiality, (4) Secrecy, (5) Tier Account and (6) Service Level Agreement (SLA). The study shows that Azure is more appropriate when considering Pricing and Availability (Error Rate) while AWS is more appropriate when considering Tier account. Our user survey study and its statistical analysis agreed with the arguments made for each of the six comparisons factors.
Highlights
Using computing as a utility is one of the main objectives that IT industry strives for [2]
We proposed a comparison model with six factors to compare between two cloud platforms leaders: Amazon Web Service (AWS) and Microsoft Azure
The comparison process will be covered as follows: we first list the factor of comparison; we introduce the case of this factor in Azure followed by its case in AWS, and we conclude each factor by a discussion that clarifies our findings
Summary
Using computing as a utility is one of the main objectives that IT industry strives for [2]. Cloud computing can be defined as a service over the Internet where the application, services, storage and files are hosted on servers that are available in cloud infrastructure environment. It uses clusters of distributed computers with ondemand resources to provide powerful and reliable services over the Internet [1]. The rapid and worldwide adoption of cloud computing is due to the many benefits it offers to both organizations and individual users. It increases data and resources availability where users can reach their data whenever they need. It reduces cost since it benefits from virtualization which is a technique that optimizes computer resources
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