Week 4 Posting - Cloud Environments

 

In the domain of cloud computing many small companies offer same city services, in one the cities where my job was there was a small regional datacenter that provided power and bandwidth and a few static IP addresses. The model behind these companies is to provide high bandwidth and low latency to the region that is being purchased. This type of infrastructure requires less manual labor aside from the setup and will provide physical protection and often network firewall protection for an additional fee. The idea of handing off the burden of hosting is becoming more common due to work from home and split offices, two of the major players are Azure by Microsoft and Amazon Web Services. AWS and Azure both sell whole environments that can be configured with a friendly web interface, once a SLA is set the service will provide almost 100% uptime day or night. These environments are a great way to scale resources as needed as well.