Google Anthos - Azure Stack - AWS Outposts :Comparison
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The document compares three hybrid cloud solutions: Google Anthos, Azure Stack, and AWS Outposts, highlighting their features, deployment methods, and operational capabilities. Google Anthos allows running VMs and containers in a hybrid and multi-cloud environment, Azure Stack supports both connected and disconnected operations, while AWS Outposts requires connectivity to parent AWS regions and is fully managed by AWS. The document also details hardware requirements, management tools, developer resources, migration strategies, and partnerships for each platform.
Google Anthos - Azure Stack - AWS Outposts :Comparison
- 1. ...Comparison of → Google Anthos → Azure Stack → AWS Outposts By Krishna Kumar, CNCF Ambassador , A CCICI Presentation Feb 2020
- 2. # Overview Google Anthos Azure Stack AWS Outposts Product Announced ● April 2018 at Google Cloud NEXT ● Azure Stack from Jan 2016 onward ● Arc in Nov 2019 at Microsoft Ignite ● Nov 2018 at AWS re:invent Cloud Support ● Hybrid & Multi Cloud ● Anthos can run VMs and containers side- by-side. GKE on-prem environment must be able to reach Google's API endpoints. ● Hybrid & Multi Cloud ● Deploy Azure Stack Hub either connected to the internet (and to Azure) or disconnected mode. ● Hybrid Cloud only ● Outpost relies on connectivity to the parent AWS Region. Outposts are not designed for disconnected operations. Software / Services ● GKE, CloudRun ● Any standard container apps ● Virtual machines, storage, networking, Key Vault and Windows & Linux VM. ● Azure Functions, App Service, Azure SQL & PostgreSQL Hyperscale. ● EC2, EBS, ECS, EKS ● EMR, RDS, SageMaker, MSK Hardware ● No proprietary hardware needed. Can run on VMware, Dell EMC, HPE, Intel, and Lenovo racks. ● Run on variety of partner vendors, such as HPE, Dell EMC, Cisco, Huawei and Lenovo. ● Racks of 4-16 servers (scale unit) built by trusted hardware partners and delivered straight to your data center. ● Based on AWS Nitro System - delivers pre- configured stack to the customer's on- premise. ● Amazon customers subscribe to Outposts service just like they consume EC2. instances. They don’t own the infrastructure. Management ● Anthos Config Management console – also manage 3rd party Kubernetes clusters. ● Arc – A multi cloud management layer including AWS and GCP management. ● Integrated with AWS management Console. Outposts is a fully managed service by AWS. Deployment ● Google's Kubernetes Engine (GKE), GKE On-Prem, Anthos Config management, Istio integrated & topology Service graph. ● 100% Software based solutions ● Azure Management Control Plane, Azure Resource Manager and Arc. ● Also includes Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack HCI, and Azure Stack Edge. ● First Model - VMware(vSphere, vSAN, and NSX ) Cloud on AWS. ● Second Model - Run compute and storage on-premises using the same native AWS racks, APIs in the AWS cloud.
- 3. # Features Google Anthos Azure Stack AWS Outposts Compute ● GKE on-prem, all components are hosted in the customer's on-prem virtualization environment. ● In Cloud, k8s node components in the customer's project using instances in Compute Engine. ● Wide variety of VM templates supported from A series to N series - VM up to 416 vCPUs and 12 TB of memory. ● Get up to 3.7 million local storage IOPS / VM. ● Up to 30 Gbps Ethernet & Cloud’s first of 200 Gbps Infini Band. ● Various templates supported as below: ● General purpose (M5/M5d) ● Compute optimized (C5/C5d) ● Memory optimized (R5/R5d) ● Graphics optimized (G4dn) ● I/O optimized (I3en) Storage ● Market place supports various solutions like etcd, Consul, JFrog, etc. ● Blob storage & Queue storage ● Managed Disks & Table Storage ● Support local storage & EBS ● S3 coming in 2020 Network ● GKE and GKE on-prem clusters need IP connectivity. ● VPN or Dedicated/partner cloud interconnect. ● GKE on-prem uses an on-prem load balancing appliance. ● Connect two stack hubs through VNET peering. ● Azure ExpressRoute at bandwidths up to 100 Gbps. ● Gateway Type stack hub only supports VPN and Route based. ● VPC extend through subnet and private IP to zones/regions. ● Local Gateway(LGW) connects outpost to OnPrem network. ● Extension of the AWS Region and so all services can access through endpoints. Containers ● K8s clusters - The GKE Dashboard to view the state of your k8s clusters. ● GKE Connect - register your GKE on- prem clusters with Google Cloud. ● AKS (including .NET applications to Windows Server containers). ● Service Fabric (supports variety of programming models). ● ECS – Container Services ● EKS – Managed k8s Data ● Market place supports various solutions like Cassandra, InfluxDB, Flink, etc. ● MySQL and Azure SQL DB ● IoT Hub & Event Hub ● RDS (MySQL, PostgreSQL) with disaster recovery back to the AWS Region, read replica bursting to Amazon RDS in the cloud. ● EMR Service will be support as in the region.
- 4. # Features Google Anthos Azure Stack AWS Outposts Developer Tools ● Google deveolper tools for Kubernetes is applicable like Gitlab, Grafana. Jenkin, Jaeger, k8s java operator, etc. ● Look for marketplace with Anthos logo for more tools details. ● Azure Stack Development Kit (ASDK) for Single node. ● Support Azure Dev Spaces, Azure Resource Manager templates & Azure Stack Hub policy module. ● Dapr – an Event driven runtime & Rudr, an implementation of OAM (Open Application Model) to target k8s infrastructure. ● As in AWS, use Cloud9 - cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser. ● AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail and others to run and manage applications. Migration ● Migrate for Anthos (Formerly called Velostrata) – Convert Physical server or VM to GKE containers. ● It can also convert workloads from VMware vSphere, Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure Vms. ● Azure Migration Service – VMs, SQL Server. ● Storage Migration Service. ● Partner Solutions – Carbonate, Cloudbase, CommVault, Corent & ZeroDown. ● Cloud Endure for migration - Continuous Data Replication technology, resulting in minimal cutover windows. ● Support for physical, virtual, and cloud-based source infrastructure. Monitoring ● On GKE, use Stackdriver Kubernetes Engine Monitoring but is not yet available for GKE on-prem. ● On GKE, Cloud Audit Logs allows you to capture and analyze but is not yet available for GKE on-prem. ● OMS Cloud Monitoring - System Center Management Pack for Azure Stack Hub enables you to monitor multiple Stack Hub deployments with a single Operations Manager instance. Can use plugins Nagios, etc. in addition to it. ● CloudWatch - Observability of your AWS resources and applications on AWS and on- premises. Security ● Configuration management workflow using a configuration-as-code. ● Securing of microservices using Anthos Service Mesh and Mesh CA, providing in-cluster mTLS and certificate management. ● Azure AD or ADFS (disconnected) ● Extension Host to enhance security OAM design and deploy applications based on Rudr and Dapr. ● Azure Key Vault to encrypt keys and small secrets. AWS Nitro system technologies that enables the enhanced security that continuously monitors, protects, and verifies your Outpost’s instance hardware and firmware. ● Data encrypted both at rest and motion. All EBS volumes and snapshots are fully encrypted by default.
- 5. # Features Google Anthos Azure Stack AWS Outposts Components ● GKE & GKE Onprem ● Migrate for Anthos, Anthos Config, Multi cluster Management & Market Place. ● Traffic Director, Service Mesh & CloudRun. ● Global Azure, Azure Stack Hub(On Premises), and Azure Stack HCI. ● Manage Azure Stack Hub (operator) with the administrator portal, user portal, or PowerShell. ● Customers will order racks with the same hardware AWS uses in all of regions, with software with AWS services on it. Configurations / Get Start ● Setup GKE Cluster in GCP & then GKE On-Prem cluster. ● Migrating over an existing OnPrem application. ● Install the Istio to achieve workload visibility, enable Anthos Config Management across. ● Install Azure Stack Hub Powershell, Azure Stack Hub Tools, ASDK, Azure CLI and Azure Storage Explorer. ● Azure Arc customers can use Azure Portal, Azure CLI, SDK, and 3rd party tools like Terraform to automate resource management. ● Select your Outposts configuration and place order with Enterprise support plan. AWS personnel will install the Outpost at the desired location and configure. ● You can then launch Amazon EC2 instances and EBS volumes and deploy applications to your Outpost. Multi Region Support ● Traffic Director adds multi region load balancing and health Checks. ● Each Anthos installations are associated with zones/Region of the GKE. ● Each Azure Stack Development Kit (ASDK) has one region, named local. ● A Azure stack hub makes up a single regions. Deploy a second Azure Stack Hub integrated system, or you set up another instance of the ASDK on separate hardware, this Stack Hub cloud is a different region. ● Outposts is part of the parent AWS Region with continues connectivity but in case of network failure it can operate local. HA / DR ● GKE On Prem HA is in Pre-release beta. This has 3 user control plane. ● HA for Admin control plane is not supported but you can enable vSphere High Availability for your vSphere cluster. ● Offers Azure Site Recovery (ASR) & also multi node Azure Stack Hub. ● Hardware vendors provide their own HA/DR. ● Azure Stack cloud physical boundary, one region/one scale unit, can choose to deploy multiple Azure Stack cloud. ● Redundant top of rack networking switches, power elements, and built-in hot spare capacity. ● Auto recovery workflows for easy fail over and also deploy multiple Outposts at a site, each tied to a different Availability Zone for even higher availability.
- 6. Google Anthos Azure Stack AWS Outposts Overall Architectures
- 7. Google Anthos Azure Stack AWS Outposts Partner Integration (Some references...) Partner Services Architecture: Partner integration Acqua as workload deployment in Anthos Cisco integrated system with Commvault for Stack Syslog Monitoring integration in Stack Juniper QFX based Data Center in Outposts Cohesity Data Management in Outposts
- 8. Integrated Systems Google Anthos Azure Stack AWS Outposts Technology & Service Partners Technology Partners Consulting Partners
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