The cloud computing landscape appears to be in bad shape after a new analysis found all three industry heavyweights were showing continued performance improvements. That's according to Cockroach Labs' 2021 cloud report, which claimed that Google Cloud had caught up in several areas over rivals AWS and Microsoft Azure. "Working with each of the three major cloud providers, we have worked to optimize all of the microbenchmarks to be more accurate and representative of real-world performance," the report reads. “We evaluated 54 machine configurations and ran nearly 1,000 benchmark tests including CPU, network performance, network latency, storage read performance, storage write performance, and Cockroach Labs derivative of TPC-C, the standard for industry OLTP benchmark.” In 2018, when Cockroach Labs first published a cloud benchmarking report, AWS outperformed Google Cloud on nearly every metric. By 2020, the top three cloud providers have performed relatively evenly, while the 2021 report reveals that each vendor leads at least some of the benchmarks tested.
Cloud comparisons
Taking a closer look at Google Cloud, Cockroach Labs praised the level of network performance provided, which bettered that offered by AWS and Azure. Google Cloud also had the best single-core processor performance and outperformed its competitors in network I/O performance and storage. Despite its impressive progress, Google Cloud was not the only provider to receive praise in the report. AWS was considered the most cost-effective over a three-year period and provided the best latency numbers, while Azure outperformed its competitors in IOPS read IOPS, write IOPS, and write storage I/Os. latency when provisioned with ultra drives. Considering the respective strengths of the three cloud providers, it's been harder to declare an overall winner this year than it has been before. While Google Cloud provided the best overall performance, AWS boasted the best value for money, and Azure performed well when using its Ultra Disk storage. Promisingly, all three cloud providers appear to offer customers better performance year over year. through registration