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Chapter 11 Cloud Services Chen Xu , Jizhe Xia, Qunying Huang, and Myra Bambacus. C. Xu , J. Xia, Q. Huang, and M. Bambacus , 2013. Chapter 11 Cloud Services, In Spatial Cloud Computing: a practical approach, edited by C. Yang, Q. Huang, Z. Li, C. Xu , K. Liu, CRC Press: pp. 181-200.
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Chapter 11 Cloud ServicesChen Xu, Jizhe Xia, QunyingHuang, and Myra Bambacus C. Xu, J. Xia, Q. Huang, and M. Bambacus, 2013. Chapter 11 Cloud Services, In Spatial Cloud Computing: a practical approach, edited by C. Yang, Q. Huang, Z. Li, C. Xu, K. Liu, CRC Press: pp. 181-200.
Learning Objectives • Critical factors that may impact the capacities of cloud providers to effectively offer services to customers. • Three IaaS cloud services: Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, and NASA Nebula
Learning Modules • Critical factors that may impact the capacities of cloud providers to effectively offer services to customers. • Three IaaS cloud services: Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, and NASA Nebula
Critical Factors • Geographic presence • User interfaces and access to servers • Automatic scaling and load balancing • Service level agreement (SLA)
Amazon EC2 – Geographic presence • Amazon has data centers located in nine regions.
Amazon EC2 – User interfaces and access to servers • AWS Management Console
Amazon EC2 – User interfaces and access to servers • Amazon EC2 is a paravirtualized environment based on Xen. • Amazon EC2 supports both Windows and Linux operating systems. • Amazon EC2 has flexible and multiple price models. • Then tenant model • Geographic regions • Computing usage • Instance types • Operating system of the instance
Amazon EC2 – Automatic scaling and load balancing • Amazon EC2 provides an auto-scaling service. • Two advanced services in the Cross Service layer. • Elastic Beanstalk • CloudFront
Amazon EC2 – Service level agreement (SLA) • Amazon EC2 SLA guarantees 99.95% availability for all Amazon regions. • All other AWS services, such as CloudFront, provide an SLA with a service level commitment of 99.9% availability in general.
Windows Azure – Geographic presence • Windows Azure has data centers located in eight regions.
Windows Azure – User interfaces and access to servers • Windows Azure interface includes a management portal and command-line tools. • Several Microsoft products (e.g., Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft WebMatrix) could help deploy and manage user applications and cloud resources.
Windows Azure – User interfaces and access to servers • Windows Azure Hypervisor is specially designed. • Windows Azure currently supports both Windows and Linux operating systems for VMs. • Windows Azure’s service price is calculated based on computing usage: • Website cost • Virtual machines cost • Cloud service cost • Mobile service cost • Data management cost
Windows Azure – Automatic scaling and load balancing • Windows Azure enables computing resources to be separated from storage to achieve independent scalability of computing and storage. • Flat Network Storage (FNS) improves bandwidth of network connectivity to support Windows Azure VMs.
Windows Azure – Service level agreement (SLA) • Windows Azure guarantees a 99.95% computing reliability and 99.9% role instance and storage reliability.
A Brief Introduction of NASA Nebula • Nebula is a federal cloud computing service served by NASA. • It is an open-source project. • Nebula is dedicated to support NASA scientific tasks with a private cloud.
A Brief Introduction of NASA Nebula • Nebula only has so far realized limited scalability. • Its services are compatible with Amazon EC2. • It leverages the Eucalyptus API for VM control.
A Brief Introduction of NASA Nebula • Nebula provides an graphical user interface and a set of command-line tools for service management. • Nebula uses KVM hypervisor. • It supports two Linux distributions: Ubuntu and CentOS.
Questions • Please enumerate five key considerations in commercial cloud service comparison. • Please enumerate the five layers of Amazon AWS architecture and briefly summarize their core functionalities. • What are the core advantages and the biggest concerns of Amazon AWS? • Please enumerate the core components of Windows Azure and briefly summarize their core functionalities. • What are the core advantage and the biggest concerns of Windows Azure? • What are the major difference of NASA Nebula from the other tow cloud services regarding their targeted customers? • Enumerate two other popular cloud services and discuss the advantages of using the cloud services.
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