Time & Money is the most precious utilities you may call , that entrepreneurs are looking to save while building the next big unicorn in this transforming technology market.
But we always face the question if we should opt for cheaper servers, which cost wise would be on the lower side but the fact is we might be losing on a reasonable development time while using the cheaper option. So we find it very tough to decide while trying out to weigh the odd & even in selecting the right one. We always decide on things mostly based on our experience with it, and here is our take if you should go for AWS or OpenStack.
Pricing: Public clouds are generally optimised for development workloads that have a lifespan of months, not years and also it may be well-suited for workloads that have choppy demand where IT may need the flexibility to scale up and down resources, while those workloads with linear demand may be better served with private cloud. The network bandwidth costs for public clouds can add up quickly for high-traffic workloads. The specific breakeven point between public cloud and private cloud will vary depending on each environment. However, as IT organisations crunch the numbers for their bandwidth-intensive production workloads, private cloud often comes out on top.
Elasticity: Long-term flexibility may be limited with the public cloud-focused strategy. In the upcoming years, companies will look to adopt Hybrid-Cloud Strategies that include a blend of private cloud and multiple public cloud options to ensure they have the “right cloud” for each of their workloads. It is important to consider how easy it may be in the future to move applications from one cloud to another and how locked in you may be to a specific public cloud. A strategy that is centred around a specific public cloud vendor’s tool stack may limit interoperability with other clouds and limit IT’s ability to move away from certain public cloud offerings as workload demands change. In addition, many IT organisations looking to move out of the public cloud are finding that it can be very costly to move applications and data from one cloud environment to another.
“As-a-Service” Private Clouds: There are ways to get the efficiency benefits of the public cloud without having to make the leap. The public cloud does provide a hands-off approach for managing IT resources which let IT focus on more value-added activities to drive the business. Public cloud also provides operating expense based financing models which can be beneficial for those companies not looking to pay a large upfront capital expense for equipment. With this in mind, vendors like Rackspace Hosting and Mirantis have come to market with solutions that provide private cloud capabilities “as- a-service”. By deploying private cloud-as-a-service, IT can deploy their workloads on their premises or at a co-location facility which gives all of the benefits of a private cloud (data sovereignty, security, control) with a public cloud-like consumption model. Service offerings can also include capacity planning, cost monitoring, solution optimisation and resource management for the entire product lifecycle. For the right workloads, private cloud-as-a-service may cost less than the public cloud. Rackspace also offers an “OpenStack Everywhere” approach which gives IT choices on where they want to deploy OpenStack, whether it be their own on-premise data centre, a third-party data centre, a colocation facility or a Rackspace data centre.
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