For cloud consumers, this discrepancy highlights the critical need to conduct performance testing of applications prior to making a move to the cloud, or risk overspending just to maintain sufficient application performance on infrastructure that should have cost less. The results were eye-opening, uncovering a 7x difference between the first and tenth ranked IaaS service providers analyzed in the report.
The 2017 Cloud IaaS Providers Comparison analyzes the performance of four different VM sizes for each provider, and reports on the performance and stability results of CPU, Block Storage, and Memory. We set out to rank the best IaaS service providers and arm the enterprise buyer with an unbiased view of the marketplace.
The report was released in late February. Early this year, the Cloud Spectator research team conducted an exhaustive industry study to determine 2017’s best IaaS service provider in North America based on price-performance value of public cloud offerings.
