Choosing a Cloud Platform

Capability
Security
Recognized independent third-party attestations, reports and certifications
Certification for payment card data security
Routine, comprehensive audits and risk assessment for customer data
Control access to your cloud resources at a granular level
Integrate with your existing identity and access management systems
Utilize multi-factor authentication when accessing cloud resources
Dedicated, hardware-based key management

Global Infrastructure
Deploy applications close to your customers
Maintain and ensure data locality
Faster downloads, and lower latency connections for your customers
Ensure your applications are always reachable even during site outages with low latency

Compute
General-purpose compute instances
Compute-optimized instances
Memory-optimized instances
Storage-optimized instances
Micro instances
GPU instances
Resize instances at any time
Pay as you go pricing
Make an up-front payment to obtain a discounted hourly rate
Market-based pricing for significant discounts on excess capacity
Predictable costs and significant discounts for always-on resources
Reduce your hourly cost and guarantee capacity for unpredictable or spiky workloads
Sell your reserved capacity on the open market
Achieve further discounts when buying in bulk
The freedom to access 100,000s of cores, only when you need them
Easily assign static public IP addresses to your instances
Control your IP networking configuration
Create multiple private and public subnets
Attach multiple network interfaces to compute resources
Control traffic to and from your compute resources at a granular level
Hardware-based virtual private networking connection to cloud resources
High speed, low latency, private, dedicated connectivity between on-premises and cloud infrastructure
Automatically scale up or down to meet customer demand
Deploy applications in physically separate locations
Automatically balance variable request loads
An operating system designed for the cloud
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Ubuntu Server
Run Windows Server in the cloud
Run Microsoft SQL Server in the cloud
Oracle Databases and middleware
Microsoft business applications
Microsoft License Mobility
SAP solutions
IBM solutions and developer tools
Powerful multi-core processors
High speed interconnects
Physical proximity between instances
Obtain information about the health of your instances
Deploy to hardware dedicated only to you
Fully managed desktop computing service

Storage
Highly durable storage for all types of data
Archival storage for infrequently accessed data
Versioning
Multi-factor delete
Encryption
Flexible Access Control Mechanisms
Time-limited access to objects
Audit logs
Define policies to delete old data, or move to archival storage
Cost Control
Back up your data to the cloud automatically
Corporate file sharing integrated with the cloud
Direct attached, ephemeral storage
Persistent storage
Persistent storage, with provisioned I/O performance
Durable snapshots

Content delivery
Deliver your website content to users around the world with low latency
Deliver software or large files to end users
Deliver streaming of pre-recorded media, progressive download or events to end users
Control which users can access content
Database
Managed MySQL Database
Managed Oracle Database
Managed Microsoft SQL Server Database
Managed PostgreSQL Database
Provisioned I/O throughput
Easy Scaling
High availability
Read Replicas
Bring your own licensing
Flexible pricing options
Security and Compliance
Managed non-relational database
Throughput based automatic provisioning
Built-in high availability
Security and Compliance
Managed in-memory cache
Petabyte-scale managed data warehouse service
Easily resize your data warehouse
Fast query performance regardless of the size of your data set
Security and Compliance
Use the tools you are already familiar with

Application Services
Managed search service
Managed queuing service
Managed notification service
Managed workflow service
Bulk email delivery
Media transcoding
Managed Application Streaming

Deployment and Management

Deploy infrastructure with templates
Container-based deployment
Application lifecycle management
Built-in monitoring tools with alerts
Consistent management tools

Development
IDE integration
SDKs for the languages you use
Support
Round the clock support options
Direct, one to one technical support and rapid case review
Regular, actionable guidance on how to optimize cloud infrastructure and reduce costs
Direct channels of communication and support for launches and major events

Integration with Existing Infrastructure

Control your IP networking configuration
Create multiple private and public subnets
Highly durable automatic data replication, and recovery
Move large amounts of data to and from the cloud cost-effectively with portable storage devices
Easily import virtual machines into the cloud
Hardware-based virtual private networking connection to cloud resources
High speed, low latency, private, dedicated connectivity between on-premises and cloud infrastructure

Big Data
Managed Hadoop workloads
Dynamic resizing for Hadoop clusters
A choice of Hadoop distributions
Analytics in your choice of language
Established and growing analytics ecosystem
Managed non-relational database
Petabyte-scale managed data warehouse service
Durable storage for large data volumes
Query all your data
Integration across your data formats
Unlimited scale NoSQL data stores
High performance from solid state drives
Arbitrarily complex data processing workflows
Easy integration across multiple big data services
Low cost, high performance data warehousing
Easy integration with the ETL and business intelligence software you already use
Low latency, high bandwidth networking
Public Datasets in the cloud
Real-time processing of streaming data

Ecosystem
A Marketplace with a choice of ready-to-go solutions
Choose from a broad range of Independent Software Vendors offering solutions designed for the cloud
Choose from a wide range of systems integrators with deep cloud platform experience
Role-based certifications to demonstrate cloud proficiency
Access to role-based cloud specific training offerings
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