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Amazon, MS, Google Clouds Flop In Stress Tests

Posted by samzenpus on from the dark-clouds dept.

Eponymous writes "A seven month study by academics at the University of New South Wales has found that the response times of cloud compute services of Amazon, Google and Microsoft can vary by a factor of twenty depending on the time of day services are accessed. One of the lead researchers behind the stress tests reports that Amazon's EC2, Google's AppLogic and Microsoft's Azure cloud services have limitations in terms of data processing windows, response times and a lack of monitoring and reporting tools."

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  1. First! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cloud free and lightning fast!

  2. o NO! by ae1294 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I foresee a unplanned and totally random 'Software Audit' at the University of New South Wales in the near future!!!

  3. Re:Cloud Computing? Why? by fluffernutter · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you were highly mobile, working from multiple locations (or on the fly), the cloud would make sense.

    I thought that was what laptops were for??

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