The following is a 500 words summary of a comparison of cloud computing performance services in Amazon and Microsoft platforms. Cloud computing is a technology that enables the flexibility to access a wide range of system computer resources by operating independently. The main advantage of using cloud computing is that there is an initial investment in the information system. The main obstacle of cloud computing is that it is a distributed technology in the global market. We live in territorially limited jurisdictions, making it hard to protect the data and confidentiality.
First, Extensive research has been carried out to assert methodology and evaluation of service performance. Therefore, this paper compared the two cloud computing platforms by looking at the cloud computing service’s architecture and categories and related work. The cloud computers architecture mode is based on entities; front end, representing users controllable infrastructure characteristics; back end, representing cloud providers infrastructure; central server, responsible for service management, traffic, and clients request; hardware layer, responsible for managing cloud physical cloud resources; virtualization layer, which includes computing and storage resources; layer platform, consists of applied operating system and application framework; application layer, this layer is the top of clouding architecture hierarchy layers, it consists of up to date cloud applications.
Second, All these layers provide three categories of services; infrastructure as-service (IaaS), which is a service provision model that outsource organizational equipment to support users operations such as storage; platform-as-a-service(PaaS), this platform allows the user to rent virtualized servers and associate services for the user of the existing application; software-as-a-service, which represents software distribution model that relies on the applications hosted by the service provider and their availability and global accessibility to the user via a specific internet.
Third, Microsoft Azure has a very flexible cloud platform that allows the users to develop applications and manage their data by using Microsoft data center network. Any technological tool can be used to integrate public cloud computing with the available IT environment. To subscribe to Azure, it is necessary to use some Microsoft Live accounts such as Outlook and credit cards. The service’s main features include low price, high speed, scalability, openness, adaptability, and guaranteed security. Mazon provides online services to other websites or client applications; thus, most of these services are not available to end-users but instead allow the developers the use and advantage of Amazon platform functionalities while developing their applications.
In conclusion, After reviewing virtual machines on Microsoft and Azure cloud computing performance, it was concluded that, when it comes to performances, test results give a slight advantage to the MS Azure platform when CPU and disk-intensive operations are concerned. However, memory tests give one step up for the AWS test system. It is understandable, considering that this MS Azure instance of virtual hardware is stronger, confirmed by the obtained test results. And when it comes to managing virtual resources, the results favored Amazon since it offers more fine system tuning features and gives more options oriented to working Linux virtual machines.
References
B. S. Đorđević, S. P. Jovanović and V. V. Timčenko, “Cloud Computing in Amazon and Microsoft Azure platforms: Performance and service comparison,” 2014 22nd Telecommunications Forum Telfor (TELFOR), Belgrade, Serbia, 2014, pp. 931-934, doi: 10.1109/TELFOR.2014.7034558. https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.citytech.ezproxy.cuny.edu/document/7034558/citations#citations
