Considerations to choose cloud providers

Several times our customers ask us for the assessments to select an infrastructure provider for the given application set. Most of the times the discussions revolve around the security considerations and license agreements, but here are some of the parameters that I normally include in my considerations:

• Existing data center, support and depreciation
• Vendor relationships, and partnerships
• License agreements on software components
• Compliance
• Geo-location aspects, data residency considerations
• Security
• Performance, and application affinity
• Overall cost & TCO for the given years