Cloud Server Performance: A Comparative Analysis of 5 Large Cloud IaaS Providers
June 10, 2013
Grazed from CloudSpectator. Author: Editorial Staff.
As the market quickly saturates with IaaS providers, the decision-making complexity of choosing the right provider evolves as well. Cloud Spectator monitors IaaS performance of over 20 of the world’s most well-known cloud providers to guide businesses in the selection process to maximize performance efficiency and minimize cost.
This report highlights and analyzes the performance of 5 of the largest cloud providers in the market today: Amazon EC2, Rackspace OpenStack Cloud, HP Cloud, SoftLayer CloudLayer Compute, and Windows Azure. Results from the 5-day experiment prominently display the performance differences in providers, with Windows Azure, the highest-performing provider, scoring 3 times better than Amazon EC2, the lowest-performing provider, on average…
The process of selecting one or many cloud provider(s) from a multitude of options is not easy. Providers allocate and provision resources differently, leading to more confusion and little performance information for users to compare. Since 2011, the IaaS industry has seen a pricing war among the largest competitors, which leads providers like Amazon EC2, HP Cloud, and Windows Azure to attract customers with a low-cost claim. This document, though, provides evidence that those considerations do not yield the best results, and a more detailed roadmap involving performance must be considered alongside other features of a provider…
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