Server versus the Cloud
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@technobabble said:
Interesting conversation here. So if you had a hosted MS server with AD (not Azure) it could authenticate desktops?
If you had a way of getting the two to talk, yes. For an office location, a site-to-site VPN would do the trick. For offsite or remote workers, you'd need a pre-login VPN client.
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Thanks @alexntg
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@alexntg having never used any of the cloud server solutions in any real way (I built a test setup as part of a demo once with SW) I'm unfamiliar with what they have to offer. Does AWS have a VPN appliance gateway device that you can add to your AWS environment to terminate VPN site to site tunnels? (and client to site presumably?)
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@Dashrender said:
@alexntg having never used any of the cloud server solutions in any real way (I built a test setup as part of a demo once with SW) I'm unfamiliar with what they have to offer. Does AWS have a VPN appliance gateway device that you can add to your AWS environment to terminate VPN site to site tunnels? (and client to site presumably?)
I can't speak for Azure, but AWS does have an IPSEC VPN instance you can add to your hosted network. That being said, I actually don't use it and rather use a pair of Sophos UTMs.
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What does AWS charge for hosting your UTM?
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Rackspace uses Vyatta as their UTM. It starts at $160/mo.
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is it me or does that price does seem very high.
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@Dashrender said:
What does AWS charge for hosting your UTM?
It's actually a subscription based license running in an AWS instance. Last I checked, it was $.10 per hour plus instance charges, so you're be looking at around $75 per month for a Sophos UTM with 90% of features unlocked and ~35 per month for the VM to run it on (if you go with small). So for ~$110 per month, you could be the proud user of one of the best UTM products on the market.
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@Dashrender said:
is it me or does that price does seem very high.
It is, but it is a screaming fast enterprise router. Compare to buying one.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Rackspace uses Vyatta as their UTM. It starts at $160/mo.
Ouch! For what it costs, the feature set isn't quite what I'd expect.
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Vyatta is pretty impressive. It's more a router than a UTM, though.
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how much bandwidth do you get with each of these servers/services?
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@Dashrender said:
how much bandwidth do you get with each of these servers/services?
For AWS, gigabit, though unless you have a larger instance size, you won't have the horsepower to make use of it. You pay for outgoing bandwidth; incoming is free.
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Rackspace is a 100Mb/a interface unlimited incoming and $.12/GB outgoing.
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All I know is the big V's cloud isn't as cheap, but it's considerably more advanced and robust than all the others. Plus our bandwidth is top notch. Rackspace uses cheaper bandwidth.
We spin you up right.
