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Microsoft Azure Overtakes Amazon's Cloud In Performance Test

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the where-credit-is-due dept.

alphadogg writes "Microsoft Azure's cloud outperformed Amazon Web Services in a series of rigorous tests conducted by Nasuni, a storage vendor that annually benchmarks cloud service providers (CSPs). Nasuni uses public cloud resources in its enterprise storage offering, so each year the company conducts a series of rigorous tests on the top CSPs' clouds in an effort to see which companies offer the best performing, most reliable infrastructure. Last year, Amazon Web Services' cloud came out on top, but this year Microsoft Azure outperformed AWS in performance and reliability measures. AWS is still better at handling extra-large storage volumes, while Nasuni found that the two OpenStack powered clouds it tested — from HP and Rackspace — were lacking, particularly at larger scales."

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  1. Web scale! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So Microsoft Azure is now web scale? Does it use MongoDB?

    1. Re:Web scale! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah, but fuck Microsoft because stuff.

  2. Of course it is! by lactose99 · · Score: 5, Funny

    When no one's using the platform of course its going to be faster than the competition when shared resources are concerned.

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    1. Re:Of course it is! by DarwinSurvivor · · Score: 5, Funny

      If a system is fast but nobody is there to use it, does it do things quickly?