Microsoft aims at Amazon with Azure virtual Windows (and Linux) IaaS

Re:Microsoft aims at Amazon with Azure virtual Windows (and ... by Aloisius on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @01:57PM (#5559683)

Anyone have any benchmarks comparing Azure to Rackspace and AWS? Especially their storage over EBS?

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Re:Microsoft aims at Amazon with Azure virtual Windows (and ... by Avalaxy on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @02:02PM (#5559713)

Yes sir, Azure actually won these benchmarks in 2013. See the full benchmarks here; http://www6.nasuni.com/rs/nasuni/images/2013_Nasuni_CSP_Repo...

or the summarized infographic here: http://visual.ly/state-cloud-storage-2013

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Re:Microsoft aims at Amazon with Azure virtual Windows (and ... by wmf on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @02:24PM (#5559850)

To be clear, that's an object storage benchmark.

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Re:Microsoft aims at Amazon with Azure virtual Windows (and ... by Aloisius on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @02:29PM (#5559891)

Interesting. Now I'd like to see a CPU benchmark, but I imagine that would be influenced heavily by who else is on your machine.

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Re:Microsoft aims at Amazon with Azure virtual Windows (and ... by wmf on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @10:19PM (#5562261)

There have been a ton of cloud CPU benchmarks, e.g. http://cloudharmony.com/benchmarks If the cloud is implemented properly there should be minimal interference from neighbors, but it would be an interesting thing to check.

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Re:Microsoft aims at Amazon with Azure virtual Windows (and ... by integraton on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @08:27PM (#5561821)

Those benchmarks are for S3, not EBS.

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Re:Microsoft aims at Amazon with Azure virtual Windows (and ... by Avalaxy on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @08:30PM (#5561836)

I'm sorry, I don't have experience with the Amazon cloud, I don't know what EBS is :)

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