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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. Hey slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Us yourapeeins try to act superior to you stupid Americans because unlike you we stink of ass all the time and our teeth our rotten.

  2. Quite interesting, actually by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I assume that they are running Windows on their 'cloud' platform, yet the performance is obviously very poor and doesn't scale well - something that Linux users have been pointing out for years, much to the anger of the legions of Microsoft shills who post here (no doubt one will turn up and reply to this very thread!). So, its pretty clear from this report that Linux is winning in the 'cloud' space, I wonder if Windows 7 will do anything to change that?

    1. Re:Quite interesting, actually by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Cloud computing is a DRM scheme. Plain and simple. The customers are the software developers or game developers (But, unfortunately, not the movie/music industries... maybe when they die people will learn?). The cloud offers the benefits of: decreased dependence on unreliable consumer devices and improved performance of some aspects of the software. The cons, as illustrated by this article, include scalability issues. The cloud can also offer benefits to users by safeguarding their data and advertisers/government agencies by selling the data to them. As the end users, we should be most worried about preserving competition so that the free market will defend our interests.

  3. Yeah, but... by killmenow · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is Google. Didn't you get that part? IT'S GOOGLE!!!! (swoon)

  4. Carefull.. by hesaigo999ca · · Score: -1, Troll

    The guy that did the story is an ex M$ employee that ventured out to start his own business, surely nothing that M$ could not
    spend a little on for him to write up bad reviews for everyone except M$....!