Great reference article for comparing Cost vs Speed in Cloud Computing decision making.
Compute and storage are essentially commodity services, which means that for cloud providers to compete, they have to show real differentiation. This is often achieved with supporting services like Amazon’s DynamoDB and Route 53, or Google’s BigQuery and Prediction API, which complement the core infrastructure offerings.
Performance is also often singled out as a differentiator. Often one of the things that bites production usage, especially in inherently shared cloud environments, is the so-called “noisy neighbor” problem. This can be other guests stealing CPU time, increased network traffic and, particularly problematic for databases, i/o wait.
In this post I’m going to focus on networking performance. This is very important for any serious application because it affects the ability to communicate and replicate data across instances, zones and regions. Responsive applications and disaster recovery, areas where up-to-date database replication is critical, require good, consistent performance.
It’s been suggested that Google has…
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