From the course: A Beginner's Guide to Public Cloud Platforms

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Picking the right solution

Picking the right solution

From the course: A Beginner's Guide to Public Cloud Platforms

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Picking the right solution

- [Instructor] So let's walk through the process of picking the right solution. So what's important here, again, are requirements. We have to consider our requirements in order to do the evaluation properly, need to work from our needs, ultimately to the cloud solution we're looking to get into. This is not by the way you picking your favorite cloud provider and then backing your requirements into that cloud provider. That's backwards. Need to consider the existing needs and then look out into the future. We suggest five years, and then you have to consider new variables in terms of deploying cloud computing solutions, including the use of multi-cloud and hybrid cloud. So you need to rank all clouds to all requirements. And so ultimately we're looking at particular providers on the top row there. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, HP Cloud, IBM Cloud, Rackspace, Terramark. Some of them are going to be relevant and some of them aren't going to be relevant depending on what you're…

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