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European cloud providers
The Rightstack Research DB
Published Nov. 21, 2023
Keywords: Compute Virtual-Machine Performance Price
As part of an initiative to enlighten technological decisions of enterprises in the realm of cloud computing, we embarked on an in-depth analysis of AWS's M7i and M7a specifications, two of the newest and most promising models in the market.
Keywords: Compute Virtual-Machine Performance Price
Denv-R Compute
Published Oct. 4, 2023
We recently discovered Denv-R, a young French cloud provider offering a IaaS service combining several strong values sought after in the spirit of the times. We know that sovereignty, low-carbon emission or edge computing are on most of the lips today and while these are inherent standard at Denv-R, the present study will compare a common Denv-R VM against its AWS equivalent.
Keywords: Compute Virtual-Machine Performance Price
AWS r7iz Benchmark
Published Sept. 20, 2023
Keywords: Compute Virtual-Machine Performance Price
UpCloud Large High CPU Price/Performance
Published Sept. 1, 2023
In mid 2023, UpCloud extended their VM catalog with larger instances pushing their service up to 64 CPUs and 128GB per instance. This study aims to discover the performance of the new flavors and compare them with their AWS equivalent. It helps to evaluate products in term of computing performance and pricing.
Keywords: Compute Virtual-Machine Performance Price
AWS m7i & m7i-flex Performance/Price
Published Aug. 9, 2023
Amazon recently released its new series of Intel general purpose VMs, the m7i. Featured with the 4th generation of Xeon chips, the successors of m6i are declined in two lines: The basic m7i and more questionable one called m7i-flex. This study aims to evaluate the performance and price/performance value of these new flavors.
Keywords: Compute Virtual-Machine Performance Price
Scaleway ENT1 Benchmark
Published June 1, 2023
In June 2021, Scaleway released a new kind of virtual machine series: ENT1. These new products are designed with AMD EPYC 7543 processors and a dedicated virtualization supposed to offer performance equal to a bare metal environment. We ran a series of test to analyse their performance against well known market competitors. This benchmark mainly focus on CPU performance and the Performance/Price value outputting from European pricing.
Keywords: Compute Virtual-Machine Benchmark Performance Price
State of the art of European Public Object Storage - Q2 2023
Published May 1, 2023
This study aims to offer an up-to-date assessment of the European market for public Object Storage, highlighting key performance and pricing in the 2nd quarter of 2023.
Keywords: Object-Storage
AWS New I/O optimized I4i
Published April 15, 2023
After more than 7 years with the i3 series, AWS released the new i4 supposed with everything better: Latest Intel Ice-Lake processors, larger block and network bandwidth, denser volumes and faster operations. We tested the new performance here.
Keywords: Benchmark Compute Performance Price Local-storage
AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBM vs Oracle - VMs Q2 2023
Published April 4, 2023
This study aims to evaluate the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) from the Big 5, especially General Purpose Virtual Machines, Block Storage and Object Storage. It's important to note that each cloud provider has its own target audience and use cases, however, the infrastructure services are quite similar across vendors making them comparable in term of performance and price.
Keywords: AWS Azure Google IBM Oracle Compute Object-Storage
OVHcloud Metal Instances
Published March 1, 2023
Keywords: Bare-Metal Compute
UpCloud High CPU and Memory VM
Published Feb. 9, 2023
Keywords: Compute Virtual-Machine Performance Price
AWS Global network benchmark
Published Jan. 1, 2023
This study consists of the testing of the network links between all the different AWS regions through mainly 3 aspects: Bandwidth, latency and hops
Keywords: Network AWS
AWS c6g vs c7g
Published Nov. 30, 2022
Annouced during the Re:Invent 2022, the new Graviton 3 processsors take the shape of the c7g instance types. Fabulous on paper, we analyzed the improvements compared to c6g and their ancestor the a1 series.
Keywords: Benchmark Compute Performance Price ARM
OVHCloud Standard Object Storage benchmark
Published Sept. 14, 2022
In the manœuvre of renewing their Object Storage offering with the OpenIO technology, OVHcloud extended their product with a Storage class qualifed as Standard. We dispose here from a classical S3 API similar to the High-Performance class, compared to this one, there's a small performance decrease for a large discount.
Keywords: Object-Storage Benchmark Performance Price
RisingCloud vs Lambda
Published June 1, 2022
We recently discovered RisingCloud, the kind of vendor that we could qualify as "new-generation" from its purpose. If you are serverless felow, this cloud vendor is tailored for you as it mainly focuses on your microcode management.
Keywords: Function Performance
State of the art of European IaaS Compute - Q2 2022
Published June 1, 2022
As a research company, Cloud Mercato aims to deliver meaningful data for the large public. In this study, we grant any Cloud service selling Virtual Machines through a IaaS with facilities in Europe.
Keywords: Compute IaaS Performance Price
OVHCloud High performance Object Storage benchmark
Published May 11, 2022
Cloud Mercato ran an evaluation of the new OVHCloud High performance Object Storage against their main competitors in a context of performance and price.
Keywords: Object-Storage Benchmark Performance Price
State of the art of European IaaS - Q3 2021
Published Aug. 1, 2021
The European territory has a high density of Cloud providers and facing the diversity of services, this study aims to bring transparency by discovering the European landscape, the vendors, datacenters, performance and price.
Keywords: Compute x86 Virtual-Machine Benchmark Performance Price
Oracle A1 Benchmark - Comparison with E3 and E4
Published July 1, 2021
In the end of the 2nd semester of 2021, Oracle Cloud released a new kind of VM type: A1.Flex powered with ARM Ampere processors. Next to AWS, the red hyperscaler invest this architecture with its plus and cons.
Keywords: Compute ARM A1.Flex Ampere
Equinix Bare Metal new generation
Published May 1, 2021
We evaluated last generation of Bare Metals from Equinix. CPU, Storage and Network compared to a AWS m5.metal.
Keywords: Bare-metal Public-Cloud Local-Storage
AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBM vs Oracle - VMs Q1 2021
Published Feb. 1, 2021
We did a comparison of the Big 5 through their Virtual Machine offering and more especially the compute optimised series.
Keywords: Compute IaaS Virtual Machine Performance Price Hyperscalers
hopla.cloud
Published Jan. 2, 2021
Cloud Mercato ran a price/performance analysis for hopla.cloud. The goal is to measure the performance then the pricing for equivalent products at competitors providers.
Keywords: Public-Cloud Performance Benchmark
Scaleway Stardust Price/Performance benchmark
Published Dec. 1, 2020
By the end of 2020, Scaleway released a new type of VM STARDUST-S. Equipped with AMD EPYC 7281, these small instances propose performance at the edge of market with the lowest price findable in the public cloud industry. This project aims to compare this new flavor with equivalent products from hyperscalers and medium competitors.
Keywords: Public-Cloud Compute Low-cost
State of the art of Public Object Storage Europe
Published Nov. 1, 2020
Cloud Mercato tested performance of different Object Storage solutions present in Europe. We designed a test suite containing 5 scenarios, each displaying a facet of what an Object Storage can deliver.
Keywords: Public-Cloud Object-Storage Perforrmance
Open Telekom Cloud 2020
Published Oct. 1, 2020
T-Systems has requested Cloud Mercato to perform a comparative analysis on their 2 new product lines: Dedicated CPU C4 and General Purpose S3.
Keywords: Public-Cloud Hyperscalers
CloudSigma Preview 2020
Published June 2, 2020
Cloud Mercato tested CloudSigma's compute under different aspects and compared with AWS and DigitalOcean products.
Keywords: Compute Public-Cloud
Exoscale Compute
Published May 7, 2020
Keywords: Compute Exoscale AWS Performance Price
OVHcloud new IOPS series
Published Jan. 7, 2020
We compared the new OVHcloud I1 series against other hyperscalers. Discover performance and price benchmark.
Keywords: Local-Storage IOPS Benchmark
AWS General purpose VMs history
The goal of this study is to analyze the evolution AWS' General Purpose VMs through the pricing, the specification and the performance of each standard instance types.
Keywords: Benchmark Compute Performance aarch64 ARM x86 Intel AMD
AWS benchmark m6i vs m5 vs m5a
AWS is renewing its Intel VM catalog with a new series: m6i, powered with the 3rd generation of Intel Xeon. As usual, we ran a benchmark to evaluate the plus and cons of this new panel of products. CPU, RAM and network, we tested the new m6i against the 2 x86 ancestors m5/m5a.
Keywords: Compute x86 Virtual-Machine Benchmark Performance Price
AWS re:Invent 2020 - New instances
Keywords: Public-Cloud Performance
Fosshost - AArch64 benchmark
AArch64 is a new Cloud service from Fosshost devoted to provide Arm-based infrastructures to the open-source community. As lovers of free software we offered them a free benchmark with the market leader AWS and its latest Arm series m6g.
Keywords: Benchmark Compute Performance aarch64 ARM
G-Core Labs vs EC2
In this project we compare the latest main AWS' VMs against their G-Core Labs equivalent. We tested and expose different aspects of performance.
Keywords: Compute IaaS Virtual Machine Performance Price
Google Cloud Memorystore Redis
Cloud Memorystore is a managed in-memory NoSQL database compatible with Redis and Memcache. Cloud Mercato tested with redis-benchmark the performance of the different tiers proposed by Google Cloud, from 10 to 300GB though Basic and Standard plans.
Keywords: Redis Managed-Database Performance
Katapult Compute
Katapult is a new Cloud solution shaped for high performance computing. Their goal is to deliver the best IaaS platform with affordable price, no-hidden cost and capacities outperforming their competitors. This project on a high quality infrastructure
Keywords: Public-Cloud IaaS Performance Price
Machine Learning: Sudoku Benchmark
This projects aims to explore the performance metrics of Sudoku Solver Benchmark given by its different parameters. The main goal is to discover what is best configuration for training and inference, especially find the best trade-off between parameters such as batch size or dataset size.
Keywords: Machine-Learning Deep-Learning Performance
Nua.ge Overview
This benchmark aims to evaluate the value of Nuage's IaaS against the market leader AWS and the niche leader DigitalOcean.
Keywords: Compute x86 Virtual-Machine Benchmark Performance Price