Abstract
Infrastructure-as-a-service is a cloud service model that allows customers to outsource computing resources such as servers and storage. This article evaluates four IaaS cloud services - Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine and Rackspace Cloud in a vendor-neutral approach with regards to system parameter usage including server, file I/O and network utilization. Thus, system-level benchmarking provides objective comparison of cloud providers from performance standpoint. Unixbench, Dbench and Iperf are the System-level benchmarks chosen to test the performance of server, file I/O and network respectively. In order to capture the variation in performance, the tests were performed at different times on weekdays and weekends. With each offering, the benchmarks are tested on different configurations to provide an insight to the cloud users in selection of provider followed by appropriate VM sizing according to the workload requirement. In addition to the performance evaluation, price-per-performance value of all the providers is also examined and compared.
Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a callMore From: International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing
Disclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.
