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Amazon Web Services 2011: Is It Enterprise Ready?
11 October 2011
 
Kyle Hilgendorf   Drue Reeves  

Amazon Web Services' (AWS) innovation, ease of use, and unique business model continue to define the cloud computing infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market. Although AWS is an easy-to-use, general-purpose cloud platform, IT organizations are asking whether it can meet the requirements found in many enterprise organizations. In this Gartner assessment, Principal Research Analyst Kyle Hilgendorf and VP Distinguished Analyst Drue Reeves examine both AWS's technical capabilities (i.e., availability, management, security, scalability, and performance) and service-related items to determine whether AWS is ready for broad-scale enterprise adoption.





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Table of Contents

Contents
  • Summary of Findings
  • Analysis
    • What Is "Enterprise IT"?
    • Availability
      • Regions
      • Availability Zones
      • Elastic Load Balancing
      • Data Centers
      • Storage
    • Management
      • AWS Management Console
      • Asset Management
      • Deployment Management
      • Identity Management
      • Monitoring
      • Billing
      • Service Visibility
      • Management Summary
    • Security and Risk Management
      • Compliance and Certifications
      • Data Center Physical Security
      • Isolation
      • Storage Security
      • Network Security
      • Compute Instance Security
    • Scalability
      • Auto Scaling
      • CloudFormation and Elastic BeanStalk
      • Service Limitations
      • AMI Library
    • Performance
      • Compute Performance
      • Storage Performance
    • Miscellaneous Factors to Consider
      • Terms, Conditions, and SLAs
      • Transparency
      • Support
      • Price and ROI
      • Application Services
      • Interoperability, Standards, and Vendor Lock-In
      • Iterative Product Releases
    • Strengths
    • Weaknesses
  • Recommendations
    • Recommendations for Customers
    • Recommendations for AWS
  • Recommended Reading
  • Notes
Tables
Table 1.
Availability Zone Name Rotation
Table 2.
AWS Management Console: Time to Integrate
Figures
Figure 1.
AWS Regions and Availability Zones
Figure 2.
AWS Identity and Access Management User Creation
Figure 3.
Cost Premium Analysis: EC2 Dedicated vs. Public
Figure 4.
AWS Security Groups Configuration
Figure 5.
AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
Figure 6.
2010 and 2011 AWS Announcements




Document History:
 
Amazon Web Services 2011: Is It Enterprise Ready?
11 October 2011
  
Amazon EC2: Is It Ready for the Enterprise?
13 November 2009
  




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