Community Manager at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
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PaaS solutions: Areas for improvement?
If you were in the room with the product manager from Amazon and Microsoft and could give them advice on how to improve their PaaS solutions, what areas for improvement would you suggest?
I'd ask for better documentation, preferably with all updates dated.
I'd also ask for improved error messages that actually give a clue as to
what is really wrong.
I primarily work with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. My main
business partner has years of expertise with Amazon.
I will just focus on Azure suggestions:
- IaaS deployments are slow with Windows VMs
- Versioning / packaging is too coupled with Visual Studio
- A cloud platform should be fully controllable with only the command line
- otherwise you're killing DevOps
- msbuild is not great at bridging that gap
- Support is iffy compared to what I'm accostomed to with Google (inculding
by phone)
- There are some gaps with hybrid models
- websites can't connect to on premise VMs
- reserved IPs don't work with affinity groups
- I receive connection timeouts periodically when controlling the VMs via
Powershell (and the client network is super fast)
MORE THAN ANYTHING
PLEASE ADD SSH / SFTP SERVICES IN WINDOWS ... something like this:
powershellserver.com
It is very hard to administer a machine across WinRM
I do not use Microsoft products, so I shall only give suggestions for Amazon.
@amazon, please simplify your offerings and don't ask my CC details for the free plan.
Also please allow me to install my custom OS and have interoperability with KVM images.
Oracle Web Administrator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Consultant
2014-07-07T11:37:21Z
07 July 14
In adopting Cloud Foundry, the “big aha” included the forecasted 50% reduction of effort and increased efficiency within the software development lifecycle (SDLC). - See more at: http://blog.gopivotal.com/cloud-foundry-pivotal/case-studies-2/monsanto-sees-50-app-dev-lifecycle-improvement-with-cloud-foundry#sthash.VOuumEef.dpuf
We have given Acronis Cyber Cloud Solution to most of our clients since it has the capability of any- to-any restoration and it can be achieved on any cloud.
Hi community members,
I'm the Head of IT at a construction company (size: <50).
Currently, I'm trying to select an IaaS platform out of Google Cloud services, Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. Many have suggested that Amazon AWS is a good choice.
Which one would you recommend for my organization? Whichever you recommend please give your reasons.
Thanks in advance.
Gerente regional de tecnologÃa at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
05 July 22
I have worked with AWS for 4 years now and I agree with the recommendation.
If you make some research AWS will be shown as the top solution in many white papers. We made an evaluation to compare it with Google and Azure. In our case, AWS is the most cost-effective.
Depending on the solution you are running you need to check the license cost for your servers. If you have a lot of Windows solutions Azure may be a better fit.
Regarding performance, we did have an incident where the complete region was unreachable. So, make sure to consider recovery sites.
VP of Data and Analytics at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
09 July 22
I would like to recommend MS Azure to start with.
The reasons are:
1. I bet you're using many Microsoft tools, like Office 365, Team, etc. so you're pretty familiar with the MS UX which is excellent.
2. It's easy to start/learn Azure and configurations, they have very detailed documentation online.
3. It's relatively cheaper with Azure IaaS with good starting numbers of notes/services.
The three main types of cloud computing are SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.
Software as a Service, or cloud application services, uses the internet to deliver software applications to its users via a third-party vendor. Most SaaS applications run directly through your browser, which means you don’t need to download or install anything. You can purchase a basic, easy to set up solution right out of the b...
I primarily work with Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform.
I will just focus on Azure suggestions:
- IaaS deployments are slow with Windows VMs
I'd ask for better documentation, preferably with all updates dated.
I'd also ask for improved error messages that actually give a clue as to
what is really wrong.
I primarily work with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. My main
business partner has years of expertise with Amazon.
I will just focus on Azure suggestions:
- IaaS deployments are slow with Windows VMs
- Versioning / packaging is too coupled with Visual Studio
- A cloud platform should be fully controllable with only the command line
- otherwise you're killing DevOps
- msbuild is not great at bridging that gap
- Support is iffy compared to what I'm accostomed to with Google (inculding
by phone)
- There are some gaps with hybrid models
- websites can't connect to on premise VMs
- reserved IPs don't work with affinity groups
- I receive connection timeouts periodically when controlling the VMs via
Powershell (and the client network is super fast)
MORE THAN ANYTHING
PLEASE ADD SSH / SFTP SERVICES IN WINDOWS ... something like this:
powershellserver.com
It is very hard to administer a machine across WinRM
Mike Basil
I do not use Microsoft products, so I shall only give suggestions for Amazon.
@amazon, please simplify your offerings and don't ask my CC details for the free plan.
Also please allow me to install my custom OS and have interoperability with KVM images.
In adopting Cloud Foundry, the “big aha” included the forecasted 50% reduction of effort and increased efficiency within the software development lifecycle (SDLC). - See more at: http://blog.gopivotal.com/cloud-foundry-pivotal/case-studies-2/monsanto-sees-50-app-dev-lifecycle-improvement-with-cloud-foundry#sthash.VOuumEef.dpuf