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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. Wave? by tygerstripes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wonder what the implications will be for Wave? Real-time updates across multiple servers present very similar challenges to cloud-computing. If the relevant protocols have the same problems then it raises doubts over the scalability of the Wave protocol.

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    1. Re:Wave? by Thomas+Charron · · Score: 3, Interesting

      The challenges for Wave don't rely on nearly the same challenges. Wave involves ONLY data transfer, not processing, storage, etc.. It's a protocol.

      Making the comparison you've made is the same thing as saying HTTP is flawed becouse Joes Web Shack servers are slow.

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  2. AppLogic? by Roguelazer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Buh? As far as I can tell, Google doesn't have a platform called "AppLogic". Perhaps they were referring to App Engine? And it's not even the editors' fault this time -- TFA has the terms wrong too. That really inspires confidence...

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  3. Re:Quite interesting, actually by lenehey · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I dunno. If someone steals my money, it can be replaced by the bank whose security system failed. If someone steals my secrets, there is no remedy.