Abstract

The emergence of cloud computing as a viable path for implementing enterprise-class computing solutions brings with it many opportunities. Cloud computing also challenges prospective customers to understand the actual performance delivered by various solution providers.

Macquarie Telecom commissioned Tolly to benchmark the system performance and networking throughput of web/app servers running on its public cloud solution and compare them to similar configurations running on platforms offered by Amazon Web Services and Rackspace.

Tolly engineers ran benchmark tests to stress key system components on three different platform configurations for each vendor. Tolly also evaluated the performance results as each related to the system cost.