Those of us who are building web apps and services inevitably ask ourselves “if I build in the cloud, which one performs the best?”. In this scenario, the word “best” is a misnomer – what we really mean is “what cloud can perform better given the particular needs of my app?”. Well, Alistair set out to find those answers.
Along with Webmetrics, he published research that quantifies web application performance on Amazon, Google, Salesforce, Rackspace and Terremark. Instead of using a “one size fits all” methodology, he compared service response, network performance, CPU, and internal I/O for each cloud provider.
Here’s a quick summary of the results; you can download the full study — complete with detailed conclusions, test methodology, and even agent code –for free from Webmetrics.
No study like this has been done before – and I hope that many people will take the code, improve it, and run tests of their own. Oh, and it’s all free. Here’s the original post on the topic.
Enjoy :)
