With so many services available in the cloud why do some customers still opt for Data Center version of Atlassian?
So having opted to use Atlassian's Jira product for your companies agile project management the next question is do I opt for the Cloud or Data Center version. For many it's an obvious choice to go for Atlassian's SaaS cloud version:
no deployments or maintenance
ease of setup
scalability
security
However for some organisations there are more important factors at play:
Data locality - control of where the data is located
specific security and compliance standards
3rd party apps can store data within the organisations hosted servers
no storage limitations
Other factors to consider are the use of Atlassian's server product in conjunction with cloud platforms such as Amazon AWS. Together they can easily rival Atlassian's cloud SaaS for scalability, maintenance and flexibility:
Deployments - utilising numerous tools on offer such as Cloudformation makes deployments quick and easy, with the added benefit of being able to create sandbox environments
Reliability and resiliance - backups are easily configured, monitoring easy to setup.
Scalability - no limits
Security - AWS provides all the tools to setup and configure your environment to satisfy almost any security and compliance standards.
Conclusion
It's not a straight forward option for many organisations to jump at the convenience of Atlassian's cloud offering, where control of data locality and compliance are key factors. The server version when used in conjunction with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, provides scalability to offer a compelling alternative. In addition the flexibility to customise with Marketplace plugins and apps yet retaining control of how the app stores the data.
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