Cloud computing key study with detail technical specifications with two services provider comparison 1 Google and other Amazon with key technical terms

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ME605 – Cloud Engineering

Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines

School School of IT and Engineering (SITE) Course Name Master of Engineering (MENG) Unit Code ME605 Unit Title Cloud Engineering Assessment Author

Samira Baho

Assessment Type

Individual

Assessment Title

Assignment 2

Unit Learning Outcomes covered in this assessment

This assignment assesses the below Unit Learning Outcomes; students should be able to demonstrate their achievements in them:

• Compare and report on cloud delivery, metrics, pricing models; • Evaluate cloud various service quality metrics; • Apply and evaluate the various cloud techniques for business case studies.

Weight 20% of Total Assessment Total Marks 50 Word limit 2000 Release Date Week 6 Due Date 6:00 PM Tuesday 28, May 2019 (Week 11)

Submission Guidelines

• All work must be submitted on Moodle by the due date along with a completed Assignment Cover Page.

• The assignment must be in MS Word format, 1.5 spacing, 11-pt Calibri (Body) font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate section headings.

• Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using IEEE referencing style for School of Information Technology and Engineering respectively.

Extension • If an extension of time to submit work is required, a Special Consideration Application must be submitted directly to the School's Administration Officer, in Melbourne on Level 6 or in Sydney on Level 7. You must submit this application three working days prior to the due date of the assignment. Further information is available at: http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies- procedures-and-guidelines/specialconsiderationdeferment

Academic Misconduct

• Academic Misconduct is a serious offence. Depending on the seriousness of the case, penalties can vary from a written warning or zero marks to exclusion

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from the course or rescinding the degree. Students should make themselves familiar with the full policy and procedure available at: http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies- procedures-and-guidelines/Plagiarism-Academic-Misconduct-Policy- Procedure. For further information, please refer to the Academic Integrity Section in your Unit Description.

Assignment Description Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS is a cloud computing model whereby all the infrastructure is provided and maintained by cloud providers: servers, storage, networking, and so on. With IaaS, an organization can make wise investment in quickly growing with cloud rather than wasting huge amounts on purchasing and installing new hardware. With IaaS model, organizations simply pay a monthly fee to use resources as per their needs and cloud providers are responsible for ensuring the maintenance of all the hardware and virtualized services. IaaS provides the tools and resources needed for development, but the organization is responsible for provisioning and managing its own development platform. This means developers will need to orchestrate their own execution processes, manage their own data services and maintain the underlying OS. This model gives development team more flexibility when adding unique features and tweaking apps and services for maximum performance. You work as senior developer for software a development company which develops applications for mobile platforms. Your company is planning to focus on building great applications without having to worry about the infrastructure. Your manager asked you to compare and contrast two cloud service providers and their delivery pricing model and other delivery metrics for IaaS. By doing this assignment, you will acquire a good understanding of available cloud service providers and their service offerings. This will help you to determine the appropriate cloud provider that provides tools and resources needed for developing applications for mobile platforms. Your Task is:

1. To identify four cloud service providers who offer Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to develop applications for mobile platforms.

2. Select one of the cloud service providers from your list for further investigation. Compare and contrast between Google Cloud (used in this unit) and the Infrastructure as a Service of the cloud service provider you have chosen.

3. You are required to submit a written report in a Word document. The report should contain

maximum 2000 words excluding references.

The report must contain the following sections (feel free to add one or more sections if necessary):

• Cover page/title page • Table of contents • Abstract • Introduction • Cloud service providers:

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1. List all identified cloud service providers who offer IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) 2. Select a service provider out of the list to compare with Google Cloud and write reasons to justify your choice

3. Comparison and contrast with Google Cloud – this is the body of the report and should be written as detailed as possible.

This section must only include comparison and contrast between Google Cloud and your chosen service provider for the following metrics:

o Time and effort to create new application environment o Service Availability (percentage of time system is available) o Security (Privacy & Data Protection Policies) o Costing model (service cost) o Elasticity (automatically add and remove resources) o Storage o Your opinion - Based on your comparison and contrast of two cloud

providers o Which service provider would you recommend and why?

• Conclusion • References IEEE style

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Marking Criteria

ITEM Description of the section Marks

Abstract & Introduction Content and outlook of the website 5

Cloud Service Providers Level of details presented in the report about cloud service providers and their services

5

Comparison and contrast between service providers

• Time and effort to create new application

environment • Service Availability (percentage of time

system is available) • Security (Privacy & Data Protection Policies) • Costing model (service cost) • Elasticity (automatically add and remove

resources) • Storage

20

Your Opinion Based on your comparison and contrast of two cloud providers.

5

Your recommended Service provider

Recommendation and Justification for recommendation

5

Conclusion

Remind reader purpose of the report, and recap main points,

5

Reference

IEEE style

2

Report Presentation Report writing style, such as table of contents, spelling, grammar

3

Total 50

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Marking Rubric:

Grade Mark

HD 40-50

D 35-44

CR 30-34

P 25-29

Fail < 25

Excellent Very Good Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory

Abstract and Introduction

/15

Excellently written, clear and concise abstract with highly relevant background

Well written abstract, relevant background

Contains background abstract brief

Brief background and abstract short

Abstract and introduction confusing and not easy to follow

Cloud Service Providers

/10

Detailed report about cloud service providers and their services offered. Clear and easy to understand

Detailed report about cloud service providers and their services offered

Detailed report about cloud service providers and their services offered is not consistent

Brief report about cloud service providers and their services

No report about different service providers

Comparison and contrast between service providers /20

Report compares and contrasts providers clearly. The report points to specific metrics to illustrate the comparison. The paper includes only the information relevant to the comparison.

Report compares and contrasts providers clearly. The report points to specific metrics to illustrate the comparison..

The presented solution demonstrated an average degree of difficulty that would be an average professional to implement.

The presented solution demonstrated a low degree of difficulty that would be easy to implement.

Comparison not complete

Recommendation and Justification for recommendation

/5

Effective recommendations, solutions, and/or plans of action were provided.

Specific data or facts were referred when necessary to support the recommendation

Effective recommendations and/or plans of action were partially provided.

Specific data or facts were occasionally referred when necessary to support the recommendation

Effective recommendations and/or plans of action inadequate.

Specific data or facts were not always referred when necessary

Effective recommendations and/or plans of action provided.

Specific data or facts necessary to support the recommendation was not provided.

No recommendation and justification reported

Conclusion /5

Well-rounded, reminds reader of report, recaps main points, reader is not left wondering about anything.

-Reminds reader of report, recaps main points. Ideas may not be presented with new wording.

Reminds reader of report, recaps main points.

Reminds reader of report

Does not remind reader of main topic and/or does not recaps main points

Reference style /2

Clear styles with excellent source of references.

Clear referencing/ style

Generally good referencing/style

Unclear referencing/style

Lacks consistency with many errors

Report

Presentation

/3

Proper writing. Professionally presented

Properly written, with some minor deficiencies

Mostly good, but some structure or presentation problems

Acceptable report presentation

Poor report structure, careless presentation