| Signed contract with UBC | N\A | ✔ | ✔ | 2022 |
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| Passthrough billing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 2022 |
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| Consolidated Access and management through CloudBolt | 2022 | ✔ | ✔ | 2022 |
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Approved for confidential and protected workloads
(may require PIA) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 2022 |
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| Benefits | | - Well-suited for organizations using Microsoft services.
- Provides consistent services both in the cloud and on-premise and supports most use cases involved with MS products.
| - Most mature and enterprise-ready provider with an influential track record of customer success.
- Enterprises consistently benefit by being early adopters of new services.
| - No vendor lock-in. The main offerings in GCP are open source, with many of their products and services eventually becoming industry standards.
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| Pricing | Pricing based on allocation | Pay as you go model | Pay as you go model | Pay as you go model |
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| Data egress waiver | No egress data charges | Data egress waived | Data egress waived | Data egress waived |
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| Available Services | IaaS | Over 600 services available but not all are available in Canadian locations | Over 175 services available but not all are available in Canadian locations | Over 100 services available but not all are available in Canadian locations |
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Canadian Location
(FIPPA compliant) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
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| Strengths | - On-premise and cost effective
- Full control over entire stack
| - Has a strong managed service provider network with dozens of partners on its list.
- Leads the PaaS segment of cloud service providers.
| - Has the largest market share in IaaS and PaaS, and is a leader in the majority of cloud products provided worldwide. Large enterprises deploy business-critical workloads to Amazon more often than to any other cloud provider.
| - Stands out in big data, machine learning and data science capabilities.
- Offers lower fees than other vendors for their services
- Significant investment in containers
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| Weaknesses | - HA difficult and costly to achieve.
- Limited capacity
- Majority of services reside in Lower Mainland in the earthquake zone
| - MS support is the most expensive compared to other major cloud providers.
- Has fewer availability zones than other cloud service providers.
- Doesn't provide any form of guaranteed capacity to its customers, and even pre-paid contracts and reserved instances are not capacity guarantees.
| - Cost can become prohibitive if not managed effectively
| - Many of the services in the Google cloud are only available in the US.
- Google sells futures. Many of the services advertised by the sales team are not available for general consumption.
- Does not provide graceful exit from their cloud; customer data and services are removed immediately upon cancelation of service.
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| Contact information | UBC IT Systems Team | UBC IT Systems Team | UBC IT Systems Team | UBC IT Systems Team |
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