Google releases open-source tool for evaluating cloud performance

Grazed from DataCenterDynamics. Author: Drew Amorosi.

This week Google announced it would provide a cloud computing performance evaluator called PerKit Benchmarker. The evaluation tool is hosted on the open-source collaboration site Github, and will allow users of the Google Cloud Platform, Amazon’s AWS, and Microsoft’s Azure to measure their current provider’s performance against industry-established benchmarks.

“For those of you developing applications on the cloud, performance is often a critical concern”, Google’s Cloud Platform Performance Team wrote in a blog. “It turns out that it’s surprisingly difficult to evaluate cloud offerings beyond just looking at price or feature charts”. Google said it then invited input from other cloud providers, industry analysts and academia – in all, more than 30 parties – to help develop the benchmarking framework. Industry contributors included, among others, CenturyLink, Microsoft, Intel, Rackspace, and ARM…

Google’s PerfKit includes an Explorer user interface to graphically display and interpret results. The benchmarking system will report on standard metrics of peak performance, end-to-end time to provision resources in the cloud, and provide “a transparent view of application throughput, latency, variance, and overhead” across the cloud platforms…

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