Managing VMs in Azure and AWS : What's the best practice?

Hi guys,
I'm doing some research to understand what my options are when it comes to managing some machines in both Azure and AWS. I'd ideally like to treat each web service as a separate physical office site, demarking boundaries and putting a Distribution
Point (or maybe a secondary, based on the bandwidth costs) up in each to handle content distribution. The VMs within these services are routable, as in I can ping them and they can ping back to the core datacenter where I plan to put the primary.
Have you guys done something like this before? How did it work out? How would you recommend I approach managing less than 50 Azure + AWS VMs? I'm trying to keep this infrastructure as simple as is possible, and currently only
has one Primary site.
Thanks!
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Managing Azure VMs from an on-prem ConfigMgr instance is supported and should work no problem assuming you have a VPN connection set up (which it sounds like you do):
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2889321
There really is nothing special here. It's just network traffic and the VPN makes the actual physical location of the target managed system irrelevant. As long as the client can communicate with the MP, DP, and WSUS instance on the normal ports (80, 8530,
and 10123 by default) then it'll work.
Same goes with Amazon. Although of course it isn't specifically supported by Microsoft, neither is your internal networking infrastructure.
Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com | @jasonsandys

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