ATLASSIAN CLOUD VS.

ATLASSIAN DATA CENTER

February 15th 2022 marked the second milestone on Atlassian’s roadmap to the end of
its Server edition, with Data Center (DC) and Server advantaged plans increasing as
part of a gradual rise to list pricing.

Jira Service Management reached list pricing at all tiers with this change, as did several
Server tiers across Jira Software, Confluence, and Jira Core. This date also saw the
end of user tier upgrades and downgrades for Server licensing, an end in the ability to
upgrade or downgrade user tiers, and new feature developments on Server were
discontinued, except for security bug fixes for critical vulnerabilities.

The end of the Server edition means that businesses that have maintained instances on
their own or via third-party servers must choose between moving their infrastructure to
Atlassian Cloud or changing their model to Data Center. In this post, we explore which
is more beneficial by comparing functionality and pricing.

Products available in Atlassian Data Center and

Atlassian Cloud
Atlassian Data Center vs Cloud
Atlassian Cloud Atlassian Data Center

Jira Software ✅ Jira Software ✅

Jira Service Management✅ Jira Service Management✅

Jira Align ✅ Jira Align ✅

Jira Work Management ✅ Jira Work Management ❌

Statuspage✅ Statuspage ❌
Opsgenie✅ Opsgenie ❌

Atlassian Assist✅ Atlassian Assist❌

Confluence✅ Confluence✅

Bitbucket✅ Bitbucket✅

Trello✅ Trello❌

Sourcetree✅ Sourcetree✅

Bamboo❌ Bamboo✅

Fisheye❌ Fisheye (Server)❌

Crucible❌ Crucible (Server)❌

Atlassian Access✅ Atlassian Access ❌

Crowd❌ Crowd✅

Advanced Roadmaps (Included with Jira Software Advanced Roadmaps (Included with Jira
Premium and Enterprise plans) ✅ Data Center 8.15+) ✅

Questions for Confluence✅ Questions for Confluence✅

Team Calendars for Confluence (Included with Team Calendars (Included with
Confluence Premium and Enterprise plans) ✅ Confluence Data Center 7.11+) ✅

Analytics for Confluence (Included with Confluence Analytics for Confluence (Included with
Premium and Enterprise plans) ✅ Confluence Data Center 7.11+)✅

When to consider Atlassian Cloud?

According to Atlassian...
Your journey from Server to Cloud will depend on a few factors, such as the apps you
want to migrate, the size and complexity of your data, and your budget and time frame.
In general, enterprise migrations require more time and planning, whereas smaller
migrations can be quick and simple.

Cloud products are suited to most businesses, enabling them to:

 Get access to the latest features and functionality.

 Accelerate digital transformation plans and enable business agility with continuous

improvements to functionality.

 Benefit from real-time security updates and a team of Atlassian experts working around

the clock to keep data secure.

 Enable globally distributed teamwork with products that can be accessed securely from

any browser or mobile app without the need for a VPN (being a SaaS solution).

 Eliminate manual upgrades and software maintenance to reduce the total cost of

ownership.
Check out Atlassian’s quarterly updates on the latest features in Cloud.

When to consider Atlassian Data Center?

The complexity of a DC migration depends on your choice of architecture and
infrastructure and your overall migration goals.

 Migrating to a non-clustered DC deployment is simple; since your underlying

infrastructure doesn’t change, you must upgrade to the latest long-term support release

and upgrade your product license, as well as any app licenses to versions from July

2020 onwards.

 Migrating to a clustered Data Center deployment (needed for high availability) requires

additional infrastructure and more complex deployment topology. Note that additional

costs and planning are required.

  Migrating from physical hardware to Data Center on a cloud service such as AWS or

Azure, or moving to an orchestrated deployment using Kubernetes or Docker, takes

more time and planning, similar to the effort required for cloud migrations.

For those with a business risk that prevents them from moving to Cloud right now, we
suggest moving to Data Center.

DC will continue to be a performant and reliable offering to support your growth with
Atlassian. Choose it if your:

 Product must comply with a regulatory standard that’s not on the Atlassian Cloud

roadmap.

 Product data is mandated to remain in a self-managed environment.

 Performance and scale are more important than features and functionality.

Scalability in Atlassian Data Center and Atlassian

Cloud

Data Center
 Connecting additional hardware allows for horizontal scaling.

 Your systems can be seamlessly and instantly extended with no downtime.

 No user limit.

Cloud
 The Cloud infrastructure scales with your business. Atlassian Cloud Enterprise supports
 horizontal scaling.

 User numbers are limited to 20k - 30k by Q3 2022.

 Atlassian Cloud grows with evolving needs.

System availability in Atlassian Data Center and

Cloud

Data Center
 Guaranteed continuous and issue-free access to Jira applications.

 System availability during updates is high, thanks to the load distribution of multiple

nodes.

Cloud
 Various levels of expansion guarantee system availability of up to 99.9%.

 Updates are installed automatically, so there’s no system downtime.

Licensing costs for Atlassian Data Center and

Atlassian Cloud

Data Center
 Individually customised scaling options through appropriate user tiers.

 Available via subscription (stable user fees).

  Fixed user tier.

Cloud
 Yearly subscription (stable user fees).

 Monthly subscription via direct purchase (excluding Bitbucket).

 Flexible licensing of individual users without being bound to a fixed user tier (monthly

plans only).

Atlassian Data Center and Cloud changes live and

pending
Data Center
Bundled apps are now available natively in Atlassian’s DC offering. Unlocking this
functionality requires customers to either install a compatible version of the app through
the Marketplace or upgrade to the latest version of Data Center with the app included.

– Advanced Roadmaps (formerly Portfolio for Jira) in Jira Software DC.

– Team Calendars for Confluence in Confluence Data Center.

– Analytics for Confluence in Confluence Data Center.

– Insight Asset Management in Jira Service Management Data Center.

– Insight Discovery in Jira Service Management Data Center.

DC price changes – Atlassian has increased the price of both new and existing Data
Center subscriptions to reflect the value of these investments.

Priority Support bundle – Priority Support is to be included with all Data Center
subscriptions (except Bitbucket below 251 users).

Data Center loyalty discount – Server to Data Center crossgrade credits are to be
discontinued and replaced with the Data Center loyalty discount. This helps customers
transition to Data Center as existing Server customers get a multi-year discount on Data
Center licensing. Server customers migrating to Data Center are eligible for a loyalty
discount on all Data Center products. This discount percentage will decrease every year
from July 2022 until 2024.

– Bamboo Data Center.

Atlassian Cloud
– Data residency update. Atlassian is committed to making data residency options
available for all customers planning to migrate to the Cloud.

– The Cloud Enterprise plan.

– Advanced change management.

Release tracks: Cloud Enterprise admins get more flexibility to manage product
releases and batching duration. With batch and control Cloud releases to end-users,
admins have the time to learn new updates, test existing workflows and configurations,
and prepare training and support for their users.

Sandbox: Enables admins with a safe, isolated sandbox environment to test apps and
preview changes before rolling them out to their production environment. Premium and
Enterprise plan customers can initiate one sandbox per product instance for as many
instances as they have, for example, if a customer has 5 JSW Enterprise sites, they can
spin up one sandbox for each site for a total of 5 sandboxes.

-Data cloning; the ability to copy data from production to sandbox will also be available
for Jira Software and Confluence soon.

– Cloud bundled apps.

Insight and Insight Discovery: Insight Discovery is a free Atlassian Marketplace app
to be used with Insight on a site that has Jira Service Management Premium or
Enterprise licensing users.

Team Calendars: Team Calendars for Confluence Cloud is now a standard feature
of Confluence Cloud Premium, and is no longer available for purchase as a
separate add-on to Confluence.

Atlassian Data Center or Atlassian Cloud?

When deciding between Data Center or Cloud, there’s a lot to consider, but as an
Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner, we are available to guide you through the best
possible solution for your unique requirements.