Question

1. Give a discussion of at least 2 other cloud-based services for hosting Active Directory, and compare them to Azure.

Answer 1

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AZURE VS GOOGLE CLOUD

Storage Service	Azure	Google Cloud	Features and Benefits
Object Storage	Azure Blob Storage	Google Cloud Storage	●    Azure provides REST API, Powershell and CLI access ●    Google optimizes price/performance using Object Lifecycle Management
Persistent Disk Storage	Azure Managed Disks (HDD/SSD)	Persistent Disk (HDD/SSD)	●    Azure offers Ultra Disk SSD with up to 2GB/second, 1.6m IOPS ●    Google offers the cheapest price/performance for HDD/SSD
File Storage	Azure Files	Google Cloud Filestore	●    Azure provides access to files via standard SMB protocol ●    Google offers NAS access and integrates with GKE
Cold Storage	Azure Long-Term Storage	Nearline & Coldline	●    Azure offers hot, cool, and archive access tiers ●    Google offers cold storage with sub-second response times
Data Transfer	Azure Import/Export Service	Storage Transfer Service	●    Azure offers a data transfer command line tool and an option for shipping physical drives ●    Google offers API and console access and lets you schedule data transfer tasks

AZURE VS AWS

The basis of comparison between AWS vs AZURE	AWS	AZURE
Compute	We have computers to perform the calculation, processing, and computing of data and we can scale to thousands of processing nodes with help of cloud service providers based on our requirement. AWS uses Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) as a primary solution for scalable computing and for management of software container with Docker or Kubernetes it uses ECS (EC2 Container service) and uses EC2 container registry.	For computing purpose Azure uses virtual machines and to scale for large extent uses virtual machine scale sets and for software management, in Docker container it uses Container Service (AKS) and uses Container Registry for Docker container registry.
Storage	Storage is next to the main service for the cloud provider. AWS uses S3 (Simple storage service) which is longest running than Azure and it provides lots of documentation and tutorials. It offers Archive storage by a Glacier, data archive and S3 Infrequent access (IA)	Azure uses Storage Block blob for storage which are comprised of blocks and uploads large blobs efficiently. It uses Storage cool and storage archive for archiving data.
Networking	Cloud providers offer different partners and networks which will interconnect with data centers using different products. AWS uses a virtual private cloud for networking and uses an API gateway for cross-premises connectivity. AWS uses Elastic load balancing for load balance during networking.	Azure uses a virtual network for networking or content delivery and uses a VPN gateway for cross-premises connectivity. For load balancing during content delivery, it manages with load balancer and application gateway
Deploying Apps	AWS also offers similar solutions with Elastic Beanstalk, Batch, Lambda, container service etc. But it doesn’t have many features on app hosting side.	One of the advantages with cloud providers is a simple process of deploying an application. As a developer, we want to deploy our app on multiple servers virtually by using PaaS features. Azure has multiple app deployment tools such as cloud services, container service, functions, batch, app services etc.
Database	Almost all cloud providers provide an ability to implement a database in both SQL and NoSQL solutions. AWS uses a relational database as a service by using RDS, for NoSQL it uses Dynamo DB and caching it uses Elastic Cache.	Azure uses SQL database, MySQL, and PostgreSQL for the relational database, it uses Cosmos DB for NoSQL solutions and Redis Cache for caching purpose.
Open source Developers	AWS is excellent for open source developers as it welcomes Linux users and offers several integrations for different open source applications.	Azure provides the facility for enterprise users so that they can use current active directory account to sign on the Azure cloud platform and runs .net framework on Windows, Linux, and MacOS.

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