A: To get a grasp on this, let's take a look at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform and some of the specific offerings that are available and relevant to a SharePoint implementation. AWS is a collection of remote computing services that together create a cloud computing platform. This platform provides a myriad of products in various functional categories including computing, storage, messaging, content delivery, networking, and so on. But AWS is also characterized as a full IaaS provider, and it is this capability that we would be harnessing for a SharePoint infrastructure. The Amazon offerings that we would typically use include the following:

This is not at all an exhaustive list, but it is a starting point for your cloud-based deployment roadmap. These products would...