Amazon, MS, Google Clouds Flop In Stress Tests 154
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."
no kidding (Score:1, Interesting)
you get what you pay for - news at 11.
I'll be sticking with own servers in a colo thanks.
Wave? (Score:4, Interesting)
"Cloud" be bollox, dude. (Score:1, Interesting)
Yeah, I'm going to allow my computing and data storage to be dependent on large numbers of strangers, some of them hostile to me. No thank you. The Internet is handy for looking things up on and sending messages to people. Low-importance collective activity like SETI? Fine. But it is dangerously vulnerable for critical operations. I hope the people in charge of things like national electrical infrastructure are aware of that...
Re:Cloud Computing? Why? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Cloud Computing? Why? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Wave? (Score:4, Interesting)
The challenges for Wave don't rely on nearly the same challenges. Wave involves ONLY data transfer, not processing, storage, etc.. It's a protocol.
Making the comparison you've made is the same thing as saying HTTP is flawed becouse Joes Web Shack servers are slow.
AppLogic? (Score:4, Interesting)
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Re:Cloud Computing? Why? (Score:2, Interesting)
It depends on your application. My application is a genetic algorithm. I want lots and lots of computers some of the time, and no computers some of the time. So, it's perfect for me.
I was recently at a Hadoop user's group. There were lots of people with applications that needed lots of compute time some of the time, and really don't need very much at all some of the time. There was a talk by a guy from Data Wrangling [datawrangling.com] where he's pulling in lots of data every night and doing some runs. He really should not be paying for computers during the day when he's not using them, and EC2 allows him to just use what he wants.
If you have a web site and are using a computers 24/7, then go with a hosted solution. If you have highly critical applications or sensitive data, then use internal servers. But, there are lots of users and applications where cloud computing works great.
Re:Quite interesting, actually (Score:3, Interesting)