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Infrastructure Everywhere
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Cloud Everywhere?
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Key Issues
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Key Issues
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AWS, Azure and GCP Global Regions
Paris
Ireland
United Kingdom
Netherlands Ningxia
Oregon Iowa
Illinois Frankfurt Beijing
Magdeburg
Toronto Stockholm
Finland
Quebec
Norway
Montreal Seoul
Switzerland
Ohio Tokyo
California Belgium Bahrain
Osaka
Virginia Mumbai Shanghai
Marseille
Arizona
UAE North Taiwan
Canada
Percentage of Total IT Enterprise
Netherlands
United United
Kingdom France
States
Brazil
10% Canada 10% Australia Germany
United China
Kingdom Turkey
Russia India
Netherlands Germany Italy
South Korea Mexico
Brazil
5% Australia France 5% Spain
South Korea
Indonesia
China Russia Spain Japan
Argentina
Indonesia Turkey
Japan
0% 0%
0% 10% 20% 30% 0% 10% 20% 30%
Sources: “Forecast: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 2017-2023, 2Q19 Update” (G00377253) and “Forecast: Enterprise IT Spending by Vertical Industry Market, Worldwide, 2017-2023, 2Q19 Update” (G00383563 )
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Public Cloud Spending per Country (2017-2023)
70.0%
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2019
Netherlands Brazil Rest of World
65.0% 61.9% 1.6% 1.5% 6.8%
60.9% 61.1% 60.4% 59.8% 59.2% 58.7%
60.0% Australia
United States 2.3%
55.0%
France
3.0%
50.0%
Canada
45.0% 3.3%
40.0% Japan
4.0%
35.0%
Germany
30.0% 4.1%
25.0% China
4.8%
20.0%
0.0%
Source: “Forecast: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 2017-2023, 2Q19 Update,” (G00377253)
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The Mix of Public Cloud Services Differ by Region
2018 2023
80% 80%
Percentage of SaaS on Total Cloud Spending
10% 10%
0% 0%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
Percentage of IaaS + PaaS on Total Cloud Spending Percentage of IaaS + PaaS on Total Cloud Spending
Sources: “Forecast: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 2017-2023, 2Q19 Update” (G00377253) and “Forecast: Enterprise IT Spending by Vertical Industry Market, Worldwide, 2017-2023, 2Q19 Update” (G00383563 )
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Distributed Cloud and Multicloud
Strategies Are Becoming
Increasingly Important
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Distributed Cloud Distributed “cloud stations”
(as needed in specific
physical edge locations)
Fully
Distributed
IoT
Edge
Public Cloud
Distributed Architecture and
Subset Management
Like-for-
Like
Hybrid
Custom
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Cloud Regional Implementations
Distinctions and Terminology Differences Example of VMs in an Availability Set Configuration
Data Data
Centers Centers
Update Server 1 Server 1
Domain
Availability Availability
1
Zone/Zone Zone/Zone
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Server 2 Server 2
Server 3 Server 3
Data Update
Data Centers
Centers Domain
2
Availability Server 4 Server 4
Zone/Zone
Azure Region
AWS, GCP and Azure Region (No Availability Zone)
Server 5 Server 5
Update
Domain
3
Server 6 Server 6
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Cloud Regional Implementations
AWS, Azure and GCP Region Architecture Microsoft Azure No AZ Region Architecture
your-app.com
Traffic Manager
your-app.com
Instance/VM
Web Role Availability Set Web Role Web Role Availability Set Web Role
Scaling Group
Instances/VMs Instances/VMs
VM1 Update Domain 1 VM2 VM1 Update Domain 1 VM2
Database Database VM3 Update Domain 2 VM4 VM3 Update Domain 2 VM4
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Key Issues
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Polling Question 1 of #
Poll Type: Multiple Choice (Choose Three)
What are the main factors impacting regional differences in cloud?
• Latency
• Regulatory Compliance
• Cloud Products Availability
• Costs Differences
• Resiliency Options (i.e., Availability Zones/Zones)
• Cultural, Political and Economic Factors
• Others
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Main Factors Impacting Cloud Regionally
Latency and
Network Performance Regional Costs Differences
Cloud Financial
Products Availability Planning Challenges
Cloud
Regional
Differences
Regulatory
Local Constraints Compliance
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Latency and Network Performance
Cloud
Regional
Differences
Request
Data
Source Destination
334 ms
138 ms Sydney
Sao Paulo
Frankfurt Singapore
eu-central-1
AWS = 121 ms ap-south-1
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Local Public Cloud Product Costs
Cloud
Regional
Differences
USD / Hour
$0.22
$0.20
(General Purpose/Four CPUs/Similar $0.18
• Labor/Qualified Skills Costs RAM/Linux) $0.16
$0.14
$0.12
USD / Hour
USD / Hour
$0.22 $0.22
$0.20
$0.20 $0.18
$0.18 $0.16
$0.16 $0.14
$0.14 $0.12
$0.12 $0.10
$0.10
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Example: Cloud Availability Costs
Cloud
Regional
Differences
Amazon
EC2** Instances Instances
Auto Scaling
Group
Read EBS* Snapshot
Access
Amazon
CloudWatch Amazon
Write ElastiCache
access
NoSQL
Database DynamoDB DynamoDB
* Elastic Block Store
** Elastic Compute Cloud
*** Amazon Simple Storage Service
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Financial Planning Challenges
Cloud
Regional
Differences
0.90 0.79
Cloud Expenses U.S. Dollar 0.85 0.74
1.42
111
Purchasing-Power Parity (PPP) 1.32
106 1.22
e.g., “The Big Mac Index”
One “Big Mac” Price:
U.S. Dollar/Brazil Real U.S. Dollar/Argentinian Peso
Switzerland US$6.54 (+21.5%) 4.65 78
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Local Cloud Products Availability
Cloud
Regional
Differences
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Local Regulatory Compliance and Security
Cloud
Local Laws
Regional
Differences
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Local Factors and Differences
Cloud
Regional
Differences
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Regional Aspects of Providers Differences
Ecosystem and
Scale Financial
Marketplace
Incentives
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Key Issues
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Best Practices for Cloud Region Selection
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Best Practices When Using Cloud Regions
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