RightScale Webinar: Considerations For Choosing Cloud Providers
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The document discusses 6 key considerations for choosing cloud providers: geography, demand, availability, functionality, security and compliance, and cost. It provides guidance on evaluating each factor for public, private, virtualized, and hybrid cloud options. The overall recommendation is to take a portfolio approach and choose multiple cloud providers to meet an organization's diverse business and technical needs.
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RightScale Webinar: Considerations For Choosing Cloud Providers
- 1. CONSIDERATIONS FOR CHOOSING CLOUD PROVIDERS
- 2. •Rishi Vaish VP of Product, RightScale •Kim Weins VP of Marketing, RightScale Q&A •Ben Ingalls Sales Development Representative, RightScale Please use the “Questions” window to ask questions at any time Your Panel Today
- 3. •Market Stats •Building a Cloud Portfolio •6 Considerations for Choosing Clouds •Geography •Demand •Availability •Functionality •Security and Compliance •Cost Agenda 2
- 4. About RightScale Self-Service Cloud Analytics RightScale Cloud Portfolio Management Cloud Management Design Private/Virtualized Environments Public Clouds Other Services Automate Multi-Cloud Orchestration Operate Deploy Report Optimize
- 5. Public Cloud Only Private Cloud 94% of Respondents are Using Cloud 58% 7% 29% Public and Private Source: RightScale 2014 State of the Cloud Report Cloud Usage is Ubiquitous
- 6. Hybrid is the Preferred Strategy Source: RightScale 2014 State of the Cloud Report
- 7. 4% 4% 5% 8% 9% 11% 12% 18% 49% 8% 17% 10% 17% 14% 25% 19% 15% 25% 10% 12% 8% 10% 11% 10% 10% 14% 9% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% HP Cloud Google IaaS Softlayer/IBM Google App Engine Rackspace Public Cloud Azure IaaS Azure PaaS VMware vCHS AWS Enterprise Public Cloud Usage % of Respondents Running Applications Running apps Experimenting Plan to use AWS is Dominating Public Cloud Adoption Source: RightScale 2014 State of the Cloud Report
- 8. 6% 13% 15% 21% 26% 52% 9% 12% 25% 15% 17% 10% 3% 6% 12% 7% 10% 6% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% Eucalyptus Citrix CloudStack OpenStack Microsoft System Center VMware vCloud Director VMware vSphere/vCenter Enterprise Private Cloud Usage % of Respondents Running Applications Running apps Experimenting Plan to use VMware Dominates Private Environments Source: RightScale 2014 State of the Cloud Report
- 10. 1. Operate anywhere 2. Leverage existing investments 3. Optimize costs 4. Access unique capabilities 5. Create resilient architectures 6. Maintain vendor leverage 7. Future-proof your cloud strategy 8. Multi-cloud happens Why a Cloud Portfolio? 9
- 11. Application Portfolio Requirements Filters Resource Pools App 1 App 2 App 3 Geography Demand Functionality Compliance Availability Choosing the Best Venue for an Application App N … Hosted Private Public Cloud 2 Public Cloud 1 Cost Existing DC App 4 App 5 Internal Private Virtualized App 1 App 2 App 3 App 4 App 5 App 6 App 7
- 12. Preserving Future Portability: Two Approaches 11 AWS Azure Google CloudStack OpenStack vSphere Multi-Cloud Image Configuration Scripts Containers
- 13. 12 You Need a Framework
- 14. 6 Considerations For Choosing Clouds 13 Geography Demand Availability Functionality Security & Compliance Cost
- 15. 6 Considerations For Choosing Clouds 14 Geography Demand Availability Functionality Security & Compliance Cost
- 16. Geography: Where Are Your Apps? Users?
- 17. Map Against Cloud Options Amazon Web Services Datapipe Google Cloud Platform HP Cloud IBM SoftLayer Rackspace Windows Azure Public Clouds Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo Dallas DC Area NYC Area SF Area Seattle Chicago Dublin London Amsterdam Oregon São Paulo Las Vegas Southeast Midwest Shanghai Sydney W Europe Private Clouds CloudStack OpenStack vSphere
- 18. Cloud Considerations Public If there is a provider that has a datacenter in the geography Private If no public provider or you have a private cloud in the geography Virtualized If you already have a virtualized datacenter in the geography Hybrid If you need to span public and private for different geographies Geography 17 General Considerations You may need more than one public cloud provider Plan for zones or regions for DR in each geography Consider data residency requirements You may need special business relationships in certain geographies
- 19. 6 Considerations For Choosing Clouds 18 Geography Demand Availability Functionality Security & Compliance Cost
- 20. Demand: How Will It Evolve? Variable Steady State Spiky
- 21. Public Cloud Cloudburst What About Hybrid Cloudbursting? 20 Low latency Private Network Private Cloud
- 22. Cloud Considerations Public Good fit for large, spiky or transient workloads Private Provides elasticity within a fixed pool of resources Virtualized Works for very steady and predictable demand Hybrid Provides the flexibility to move between the above options Demand 21 General Considerations Greenfield workloads tend to be unpredictable Dev and Test are very transient/variable workloads Marketing campaigns and promos can be spiky Think about seasonal variations Cloudbursting and split-tier architectures are advanced options, but not widely used
- 23. 6 Considerations For Choosing Clouds 22 Geography Demand Availability Functionality Security & Compliance Cost
- 24. Availability? Dev/Test is About Agility 23 AWS VMware AWS
- 25. While Production Requires HA/DR 24 Load Balancers App Servers Master DB Slave DB App Servers Slave DB Replicate > Replicate > Load Balancers PRIMARY WARM DR DNS
- 26. Outage-Proof with Independent Control Plane 25 Replicate > < Failover> < Failover> Your Public Cloud A RightScale Primary RightScale Backup Your Public Cloud B Your Private Cloud RightScale UI RightScale API User A User B User C Globally Hosted Scalable Resilient SaaS Platform Your Cloud Applications Secure authentication and communication
- 27. Cloud Considerations Public Achieved through best practice architectures, not just SLAs Private On-premise and hosted datacenters have outages too Virtualized See above Hybrid Consider hybrid DR scenarios Availability 26 General Considerations Outages happen – regardless of public or private. Plan for resiliency. SLAs in the cloud will be different
- 28. 6 Considerations For Choosing Clouds 27 Geography Demand Availability Functionality Security & Compliance Cost
- 29. Functionality: An Evolving Feature Set 28
- 30. Cloud Considerations Public IaaS+/PaaS features, networking options, hybrid options, etc.. Private Depends on your private cloud platform and implementation Virtualized How do you cloud-enable your virtualized environment Hybrid How will you replace “cloud-specific” features? Functionality 29 General Considerations If portability is a goal, plan for substitutes for cloud-specific features Stay up-to-date with the latest offerings
- 31. 6 Considerations For Choosing Clouds 30 Geography Demand Availability Functionality Security & Compliance Cost
- 32. 31 Cloud Security Ecosystem Cloud Provider Enterprise RightScale 3rd Party Vendors Plan for a Cloud Security Ecosystem
- 33. Options Abound 32 •RightScale provides visibility, governance, auditing across clouds •Cloud providers offer cloud-specific security options •3rd party vendors offer multi-cloud options •Ability for segregation of duties: encryption provider vs cloud storage provider Capability Who? Encrypt data in transit Vendor, Enterprise Encrypt data at rest Vendor, Cloud, Enterprise Secure communications RightScale, Cloud, Enterprise, Vendor Systems Configuration /Network segmentation Cloud, Enterprise, RightScale Integrate with IAM RightScale, Cloud, Enterprise, Vendors Privileged identity management RightScale, Cloud, Enterprise Backup/Replicate data RightScale, Cloud, Enterprise, Vendor Coordinate BC & DR RightScale, Cloud, Enterprise, Vendor Log cloud activity RightScale, Cloud, Enterprise, Vendor Shared Responsibility for Cloud Security
- 35. Cloud Considerations Public Ensure cloud provider has certifications necessary for your apps Private If you need to own the infrastructure Virtualized If you need to own the infrastructure Hybrid Compliance itself does not force hybrid Security & Compliance 34 General Considerations Security/Compliance in the cloud is a shared responsibility Compliance requirements does NOT automatically mean you have to go private Some enterprises are not comfortable with certain types of data in the public cloud
- 36. 6 Considerations For Choosing Clouds 35 Geography Demand Availability Functionality Security & Compliance Cost
- 37. Is Public or Private Most Cost-Effective? 36 Variable load Seasonality Traditional on-premise provisioning
- 38. •Have you accounted for all your costs? •Are your loads steady-state? •Will usage of steady-state loads change in the future? Seasonality? Growth? •How much do you need to overprovision on-premise infrastructure to cover spikes? •What is the value of agility and flexibility? •What is affinity for CapEx vs OpEx? Assessing Cost: Public vs Private 37
- 39. •Instance Capabilities •Instance RAM/Memory •What generation of chips? •Included storage? Or not? •SSD drives? •Purchase Options and Discounts •Reserved Instances •Spot pricing •Sustained use •EAs •Other Discounts •Support and Services •Future Price Cuts Public Cloud: Not Always Apples-to-Apples 38
- 40. Accurate Planning with Cloud Analytics 39
- 41. Cloud Considerations Public Combine on-demand pricing with RIs/Sustained Use/Discounts Private Are you considering all costs? Virtualized Are there sunk costs you want to take advantage of? Hybrid Preserve portability for cost arbitrage Cost 40 General Considerations Public cloud providers have thousands of price points Virtualized environments may have a heavy licensing fee to the virtualization vendor Many enterprises are maintaining multiple public cloud options Negotiation leverage comes with portability
- 42. •Hybrid and Multi-Cloud are Strategies of Choice •Expect a Portfolio of Clouds •Choose Clouds to Meet Business and Technical Requirements Wrap Up 41
- 43. 42 Thank You and Q&A Next Steps: RightScale Definitive Guide to Cloud Portfolio Management: http://www.rightscale.com/lp/cloud-portfolio-management-guide RightScale Definitive Guide to Cloud Strategy: http://www.rightscale.com/lp/cloud-strategy-guide
- 44. THANK YOU.