VentureBeat June 15, 2022
An annual report produced by Cockroach Labs finds a statistical dead heat among the big three cloud providers. The report evaluates the performance of AWS, Azure and GCP for common Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workloads. Testing shows that all three cloud providers offer price-competitive options as well as top-tier performance for OLTP applications, suggesting a shift in the market as the industry matures operationally and moves to standardize linear pricing models.
This year, the report benchmarked 56 instance types and 107 discrete configurations and conducted 3,000+ runs across the following broad axes, including OLTP performance, CPU performance, network performance and storage I/O Performance. Additionally, this year’s report improved test design configuration for all tests and added testing for different-sized instance...