Report Evaluating AWS and Azure Providers

Report Evaluating AWS and Azure Providers

The report will be five to seven pages in length and should include source citations, as appropriate, in APA style.

As an IT analyst for BallotOnline, a company providing voting solutions to a global client base, you are working to convince the organization to move its infrastructure to a public cloud. With the growth the company is experiencing and the internal data centers maxed out, you want to get the executives on board with moving to a public cloud rather than trying to expand the current infrastructure.

This report should include the following components:

● Executive summary
○ Include: the purpose of the report and the intended audience.
○ Brief description of conducted research and POC deployments.

● Comparison of architecture deployment feasibility
○ Describe how the architecture proposed can be implemented in AWS and Azure environments, and compare ease of implementation.
○ Evaluate and compare efforts to implement BallotOnline business requirements.
○ Compare availability and ease of use for application scaling, geographical distribution, and network security measures.
○ Compare availability and ease of use of cloud services required by BallotOnline (database as a service, auditing, logging, application security, etc.).
○ Compare support for application migration and monitoring.

● Comparison of ease of deployment
○ Describe AWS and Azure capabilities for deploying web applications using the PHP language and MySQL database.
○ Compare ease of use of user interfaces, portals, and management consoles.
○ Compare POC environment deployment times.

● Comparison of costs
○ Discuss and compare pricing plans available, costs of servers, and services.

● Conclusions and recommendations
○ Present the final recommendation based on your research and POC deployment.