Public cloud service providers (CSP) purport to offer instantaneous, scalable virtual infrastructure with utility billing. In reality there is wide variance in cloud performance. While the public cloud IaaS industry streamlines IT through these advantages, a lack of standardisation in performance can lead to businesses overspending in order to obtain the necessary performance requirements for their applications. Cloud Spectator set out to test 10 of the largest, best-known public cloud providers with data centres in Europe.
This report measures and ranks CSPs using a comprehensive performance and price-performance methodology designed by Cloud Spectator specifically for the purpose of measuring cloud environments. The study documented in this report examines the performance of vCPU, memory and block storage as well as the value (the CloudSpecs ScoreTM ) as defined by the relationship between price and performance.