Azure Storage: How fast are disks?

Re:Azure Storage: How fast are disks? by thejosh on Monday July 09, 2018 @11:40PM (#17495261)

Azure disk speed for VMs is absolutely horrendous for the amount you have to pay. Our workloads are so bad because of this.

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Re:Azure Storage: How fast are disks? by nvivo on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @05:53AM (#17496668)

I completely agree. For some reason they're not 100% ssd and that changes everything. That is the main reason I avoid Azure. Last time I tested (about 8 months ago) I got a new windows server instance with 4gb ram and do a windows update. In my laptop takes 20 minutes, aws takes 40 minutes or so, azure takes almost an entire day! Partly this is because MS doesnt keep their images as updated as AWS, but mostly is because HDD instead of SDD as default. Not advocating anything, just my experience.

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Re:Azure Storage: How fast are disks? by h1d on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @05:07PM (#17502166)

What is the point of using Azure if the performance is way worse than competitors?

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Re:Azure Storage: How fast are disks? by teddyuk on Monday July 16, 2018 @06:14AM (#17540065)

is the performance worse than aws?

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/aws-ebs-latency-and-iops-the-...

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Re:Azure Storage: How fast are disks? by nvivo on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @03:45PM (#17561510)

I know what I see in my apps. Yes, Azure is worse than AWS. AWS has its flaws, but Azure is simply very slow in comparison.

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Re:Azure Storage: How fast are disks? by ed_elliott_asc on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @03:34AM (#17496059)

what vm type do you have? you have to be careful not to hit the throttle limits otherwise your performance is awful.

what matters is:

- chosen vm size - disk striping (or apps that use multiple disks) - whether you attach with caching on or off, so you can work with both throttles

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