Compare SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS Products
Cloud service providers offer SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS models that can be included in your cloud computing strategy delivered in Step 8 of this project. To support that requirement, prepare an interim document that compares the SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS options you are considering as part of your cloud computing strategy.
Because we have the AWS Educate classroom as our lab environment, we will assume for the purposes of this project that services will be selected from AWS. Keep in mind, other vendors have similar (if not identical) service offerings, so you can adjust as needed in the future.
Some specific components and questions to address for this document:
What specific cloud services do you envision using as part of your cloud computing strategy? List the service and describe its overall function (i.e., what your organization will use it for) and which service model (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) it falls into.
For each service or component listed, provide a specific list of AWS-provided and customer-provided security responsibilities. It is acceptable to group selected AWS services with similar security responsibilities.
What do you estimate the monthly cost will be for each service you have selected?
For example, if you selected S3 as one of your storage solutions, what is the monthly cost estimate for storage and transfer? You will need to make some assumptions regarding how much data you want to store. You could also provide a range of storage options from 1GB growing to 100TB. Provide tables or graphic visualizations showing your estimates.
You will need to provide similar analyses and calculations for database or other storage options, EC2 instances, and other cloud tools associated with a cost.
Discuss estimated machine size requirements: t2.micro, t2.xlarge, or GPU instances while considering auto scaling and other cloud features.
Use the AWS pricing calculator (https://calculator.aws/) to estimate a monthly cost for each of the services you envision using as part of your cloud strategy.
