Overview

Teaching: 0 min
Exercises: 20 min

Questions

• What are the three primary ways of talking to the cloud?

• What are the main activities supported by cloud consoles?

• How do I choose a cloud provider?

Objectives

• Learn about the the advantages and disadvantages of the cloud

• Learn a process for determining which cloud to try out

• Learn cloud migration considerations: Cost, lock-in, bare metal, …

Choosing which cloud

Review “It’s on you” to get safe (and we know your time is limited)

Review the five pillars

1. In your field of research: Who uses which cloud?
2. What sort of compute power do you need?
   • single machine, cluster, GPU, FPGA, infiniband (HTC, HPC)
3. Let’s compare resource costs
   • Spot, reserved, dedicated, Google, Azure
   • Exercise on this later
4. Triage your work in http://cloudmaven.org
5. Let’s cover credit programs
6. Let’s cover billing and tracking (when on credit especially)
7. Development tools
8. Services

Key Points

• AWS is low-cost, feature rich, in widest use

• Google is also low-cost, has unique but narrower feature set

• Azure features fast connectivity and lots of integration with the Microsoft technology stack

• All public clouds have OS emphasis: Linux first and Windows also

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