$4\mathrm{.}2$ Cloud Services

$4\mathrm{.}2\mathrm{.}1$ Pricing for cloud services

You are to estimate the cost of the following cloud services in two different cloud providers:

COIT$20246$ Networking and Cyber Security

Project Specification $3$

$-$ A web server using Linux operating system. The web server will host the public

website of the company and include information about the company as well as details of all the

products it offers $($including specifications and pictures$).$

$-$ A backup server using any operating system. The backup server will store many important files of

the company, e$.$g$.,$ sales, financial, customer and staff data, as well as automated regular backups

of key computers in the network. These files will be encrypted before being backed up to the cloud

backup server.

The servers can be implemented in a virtual machine in a cloud service. Both servers must be hosted in

Australia. You must find the price from two different cloud providers, either Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud

using the official calculators from those providers $($see the links$),$ and you must export the price estimate

from the calculator and upload the file to your GitHub repository. You must also recommend one cloud

provider to the company. Give a reason for the selected cloud provider.

You must summarise the values you chose for important specifications $($e$.$g$.,$ region, operating system, CPU,

storage$)$ and justify your selection $($e$.$g$.,$ why did you choose each value$).$ The specifications should be the

same or similar across cloud providers $($e$.$g$.,$ do NOT choose a $1$ TB disk for backup server in AWS and then

choose a $5$ TB disk for backup server in Azure; that is an unfair comparison$).$ You must also give the annual

cost for each server by each provider.