Amazon, MS, Google Clouds Flop In Stress Tests

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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Re:what the fuck is services engineering?

[Runaway1956]

"get our hands dirty with this stuff"

I think you give the broad to much credit. Buzzwords throughout the article, but those really catch my eye. I see from real life experience a construction site. Bunch of ditzy broads and a couple old bastids who have never had a callous in thier life pick up a bunch of golden shovels for a "ground breaking ceremony". Oh, they look so rugged (in their own minds, at least), everyone gets their media exposure - Phhht. Disgusting creatures. If the author is getting her hands dirty with software, she probably grew up in a cave and missed out on education. Roasting a CD/DVD or floppy over an open fire doesn't do anyone any good.