Comparison and statistics over various Cloud Hosting Platform

Compiled by

takshak@gmail.com

This is NOT the final conclusion

http://blog.apterainc.com/bid/379058/Azure-vs-Amazon-vs-Rackspace-vs-HP-vs-Google-Cloud-Storage-Infographic

Amazon EC2 instance

Microsoft Azure

Rackspace VM instance

Godaddy VPS

Godaddy Dedicated Server

Cloud provider VM instance specs ref: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1281096

Amazon EC2 m1.large ( 2vCPUs | 4ECU | 7.5GB of RAM | 2x420GB of Disk Space, ~$177/Month )

Google Compute Engine n1-standard-1 ( 1 vCPU | 3.75GB of RAM | 420GB of Disk Space, ~$99/Month )

Azure Medium ( 2 Virtual Cores | 3.5GB of RAM | 30GB of Disk Space, ~90/Month )

Rackspace Cloud ( 2 vCPUs | 4GB of RAM | 160GB Disk Space, ~$175.20/Month )

UnixBench stats

• Amazon EC2 m1.large UnixBench final score: 613.6 ( http://pastebin.com/HEQ2JMsf )

• Google Compute Engine n1-standard-1 UnixBench final score: 2145.5 ( http://pastebin.com/P9yFu05x )

• Azure Medium final score: 1325.9 ( http://pastebin.com/CtfRSZfJ )

• Rackspace Cloud final score: 613.8 ( http://pastebin.com/vsuKFKeE )

Google's Instance clearly stood out here, getting a score almost 3.5x higher than Amazon EC2 and Rackspace. That score got me excited, seems like a good bang for the buck. But let's go on.

Disk I/O – Amazon EC2

[root@ip-10-4-126-180]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in

16384+0 records out

1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 26.3029 s, 40.8 MB/s

[root@ip-10-4-126-180]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in

16384+0 records out

1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 27.2584 s, 39.4 MB/s

[root@ip-10-4-126-180]#

Not the best, but it is not that bad either. I've got worse numbers, let's move to the next one.

Disk I/O Microsoft Azure

root@test2:~/# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in

16384+0 records out

1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 72.3842 s, 14.8 MB/s

root@test2:~/# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in

16384+0 records out

1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 76.0795 s, 14.1 MB/s

root@test2:~/#

I must confess I was expecting much higher numbers than those considering the score UnixBench gave this Azure instance. What a shame. Those were the lowest numbers in this test.

Disk I/O Google Compute Engine

vmunich@thtrdhh:~/$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in

16384+0 records out

1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 10.3046 s, 104 MB/s

vmunich@thtrdhh:~/$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in

16384+0 records out

1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.9306 s, 108 MB/s

vmunich@thtrdhh:~/$

Considering this is a cloud instance, I'd be happy with these numbers. Nothing to complain.

Disk I/O Rackspace cloud

[root@test1]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in

16384+0 records out

1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 5.11319 s, 210 MB/s

[root@test1]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in

16384+0 records out

1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 5.12203 s, 210 MB/s

[root@test1]#

Really nice numbers, the highest in this test. I'm not sure but I suspect Rackspace uses SSD caching on their standard class storage.