Performance evaluation of popular Cloud IaaS providers

Author

Salah, K. ; Al-Saba, M. ; Akhdhor, M. ; Shaaban, O. ; Buhari, M.I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Khalifa Univ. of Sci., Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

fYear

2011

fDate

11-14 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

345

Lastpage

349

Abstract

Cloud computing has become a compelling and emerging computing model for delivering and consuming on demand computing resources. In this paper, we study and compare the performance of three popular Cloud IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) providers. These three popular Cloud IaaS providers include Amazon EC2, ElasticHosts, and BlueLock. The performance is studied in terms of execution time of CPU-bound processes, size of memory bandwidth, and speed of read write disk I/O. To make the comparison fair, we strived to create virtual server on each of the providers with similar hardware and system configurations. Experiment results show that the performance of these selected servers varies with regard to different benchmarks.

Keywords

cloud computing; Amazon EC2; BlueLock; CPU-bound process; ElasticHosts; cloud IaaS providers; cloud computing; demand computing resources; infrastructure as a service providers; memory bandwidth size; performance evaluation; read write disk I-O speed; virtual server; Bandwidth; Benchmark testing; Cloud computing; Kernel; Random access memory; Servers; Cloud Computing; Performance Measurement and Evaluation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST), 2011 International Conference for

Conference_Location

Abu Dhabi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0884-8

Type

conf

Filename

6148463