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Understand Object storage by its performance

Nowadays anyone who want to smartly store cool or cold data will be guided to an Object Storage solution. This cloud model replaced a lot of usages such as our old FTP servers, our backup storage or static website hosting. The keywords here are "Low price", "Scability", "Unlimited". But like…
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New C5a benchmark: Performance/Price

AWS recently released the new series C5a equipped with custom AMD EPYC 7R32. We can discover here, a less expensive alternative to C5, similar to what they did with M5, R5 and T3. But cost isn't an appropriated metric if you doesn't take in account performance, so let's dive into…
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AWS and the volume equation

Despite being one of the the worldwide most used block storage solution, Amazon's General Purpose SSD is far away from being a general and versatile solution. Unlike other providers selling volumes based on device type and an hourly price per gigabytes, AWS made the choice to create products adapted to…
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New HTTP benchmark tool: pycurlb

Many tools exist around the globe to get performance data for a HTTP connection but we can consider them as stress tools: They focus on launching an amount of request and output statistical aggregations of latency, throughput and rate. ApacheBenchmark (ab), wrk, httperf, we regularly use these software for what…
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Do you warm up volumes ?

Nowadays, most of the cloud vendors provide different solutions to store your data and exploit them from other services. In virtual machine realm, it is often admitted that block storage brings a flexible consumption and local device ensures a low latency. At Cloud Mercato we continuously test and report storage…
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Observe worldwide network latencies

Have you ever thought which provider will give the best latency to your users ? Not a theoretical value but an accurate metric representing a real end-to-end connection. At Cloud Mercato our platform allow us to manage cloud components all around the globe. VPS, virtual machines, buckets or CDN, we…
Out of the wood #1 : Kamatera

That's make almost 3 years our analysis platform runs on computers all around the globe and automagically collects stuff about cloud market such as locations, instance sizes and more important price and performance. We are actually close to 60 providers, counting IaaS, PaaS or CDNs as vendors and this is…
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