Performance evaluation of AWS Exploring storage alternatives in Amazon Web Services

with the increasing number of public cloud platforms and the growth in terms of computing capacity, I/O performance must be one of the main points to look at so that it keeps up with the current compute capacity. In order to start considering any of the existing public cloud platforms for its use in scientific or in general, any high I/O demanding application, we have to study their raw performance in terms of I/O. In this paper, I focus on the most known IaaS cloud platform nowadays: Amazon’s public cloud. Its ease to use, reliability and various API interfaces allow anyone willing to outsource their compute/storage capacity to the cloud without any issues. This document describes the tools I used for benchmarking, a description of the file systems and storage solutions involved in this study and finally, the results I obtained from running all the