Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud
by silent_cal on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @09:40AM
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Isn't that expected? I would assume cloud stuff is slower because it's essentially an emulation of the real thing.
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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud
by pdimitar on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @04:13PM
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Why should it be expected? I'm being sold compute with quoted GHz CPU speeds, RAM and types of SSDs.
I would vaguely expect it to not match my workstation, sure, but all throughout this thread (and others) people have cited outrageous disparities i.e. 5x less performance that you'd expect even if you managed your expectations to e.g. 2x less due to the cloud compute not being a bare metal machine.
In other words, and to illustrate this with a bad example: I'd be fine paying for an i7 CPU and ending up at i5 speeds... but I'm absolutely not fine with ending up at Celeron speeds.
Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud
by silent_cal on Thursday February 22, 2024 @09:59AM
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Makes sense.
Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud
by bcaxis on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @06:15PM
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When I spin up a vm on my hardware and run an application. The performance is generally about 70% of what I can get in a container running on an OS on that very same bare metal.
But that isn't the delta I'm seeing, it's 5-10x performance delta not a 30-50% delta.