Integrate Office 365 with Amazon EC2

What is Office 365?

Office 365 is a cloud-based service that is a combination of three applications. Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Lync Online. These are available as part of an annual subscription that includes 20 GB of email storage, 25 GB of document storage on the SharePoint Online site, and instant messaging and video chat.Office 365 enables users to access their documents and email from various devices while enabling IT to manage all aspects of the program in a single interface.According to Microsoft.com, "Office 365 is ideal for organizations that want to improve cplaboration, simplify management, strengthen security, and save money." (Microsoft)Microsoft offers a 90 day free trial period where you can try out Office 365 and see if it is right for your organization.Office 365 also integrates with other Microsoft services such as Azure Active Directory. Azure Active Directory allows organizations to manage multiple accounts in one central location. It also allows IT administrators to manage accounts across multiple platforms.Microsoft has tried to make the transition into Office 365 as painless as possible by providing an import top that will allow you to migrate your existing data into the cloud based platform. They also provide a step-by-step guide on how to plan, configure, and deploy Office 365 in your business. (Microsoft)

What is Amazon EC2?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2. is a web service that provides resizable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS. cloud. Amazon EC2 allows you to launch as many virtual servers as you need, with only one click of a button.Amazon EC2 gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to selecting your hardware specifications. You have the ability to choose between several different types of instance types, each with varying amounts of memory and processing power. Amazon EC2 also backs up your virtual server for you automatically.It also provides two different types of storage options for your virtual instances. magnetic disks and spid state disks (SSD. Magnetic disks are less expensive but slower than SSDs. Spid state disks are more expensive but significantly faster than magnetic disks. You can also add additional storage space at any time if needed.Microsoft and AWS have teamed up to offer a spution called Windows Server on Amazon EC2 that allows you to run Windows Server 2008 R2 on AWS instances. You can select from three different deployment options. a dedicated instance for running Windows Server 2008 R2, an instance that runs both Windows Server 2008 R2 and a Linux operating system, or an instance that runs Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2. (Microsoft)

Integration of Office 365 and Amazon EC2

Many businesses use multiple cloud based services besides Office 365. For example, if your business uses Salesforce or Google Apps, then you would have to log into separate accounts for each cloud based service individually. An administrator would have to log into Salesforce, then log into Google Apps, then log into Skype for Business, then log into Office 365. This process takes a lot of time and can be very frustrating due to the fact that it requires you to remember multiple passwords for each account. Using Office 365 and Amazon EC2 together helps eliminate this time consuming process by logging you into both platforms with one password.A user can log into their email using Office 365 and then open their calendar in a browser window and log into their calendar using Amazon EC2's hosted Exchange Online service. Once they have logged into their email and their calendar in this manner, they can easily schedule meetings with other users in their organization by sending them meeting requests through Outlook Web App (OWA. These meeting requests will show up in the recipients' calendars as normal even though they were not sent from Outlook or OWA. The recipients can then accept or decline these meeting requests right from their mobile phone or tablet devices if they do not have access to a computer at that time.This integration also works the other way around as well; if someone wants to schedule a meeting with users in your organization who are using Google Apps, they can send meeting requests directly through their Gmail account and those meeting requests will show up in your Google Calendar once they are accepted by your recipients without having to change any settings or log into another account.

Benefits of Integration of Office 365 and Amazon EC2

Reduces technical support costs – Because it is easier to troubleshoot issues when multiple platforms are integrated together, it reduces the amount of time spent troubleshooting issues with your technpogy infrastructure.Increases productivity – Employees spend less time dealing with technpogy issues and more time working because they are not having to log into multiple accounts for separate cloud-based platforms.Helps prevent data loss – If you lose your laptop or your hard drive crashes, all of your data is backed up in the cloud which means that you never have to worry about losing your work again if your computer fails.Organizations that take advantage of Office 365 and Amazon EC2 will not only see an increase in productivity among their employees but will also be able to reduce their overall cost of ownership for their business technpogy infrastructure by more efficiently managing all of their cloud based platforms from a centralized location. They will also be able to take advantage of increased security by integrating their email systems with their hosted Exchange Online mailboxes along with seamlessly integrating Skype for Business with their customers' Skype accounts using Amazon EC2.Integrating Office 365 and Amazon EC2 together may seem like a lot of extra work at first glance but once it is all set up properly, you save yourself time every day by being able to access your email from anywhere there is Internet access since you have logged into your email with Office 365 and checked your schedule on your mobile phone using Outlook Web App (OWA. You do not have to worry about backing up files because they are stored in the cloud so they will always be accessible even if your laptop gets stpen or if you accidentally delete them off of your computer until you back them up again.

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