Public Cloud Performance Measurement Report
Pages: 12
Company: StorPool
The Public Cloud Performance Measurement Report by StorPool Storage evaluates and compares the block storage capabilities of major public cloud providers—Amazon AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure—against Katapult, a public cloud platform built on StorPool’s high-performance storage solution.
The tests used identical virtual machine configurations (8 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM) to ensure a fair comparison, focusing solely on the storage systems. Benchmarks included:
- PGBENCH and Sysbench/MySQL for transactional database performance
- fio for synthetic IOPS, latency, and throughput
- rsync for deployment and backup workload simulation
Key findings reveal that storage latency is the most critical factor in application responsiveness, outweighing CPU, RAM, or network differences. Katapult’s StorPool-based storage consistently outperformed competitors, delivering up to multiple times better performance at significantly lower costs.
The report emphasizes that while IOPS and throughput are important, low storage latency is the true measure of performance. StorPool’s solution offers no IOPS limits in typical deployments, ensuring high burst performance and reliability for mission-critical workloads.
StorPool Storage is a software-defined platform designed for large-scale public and private clouds, converting standard servers into primary storage systems. It delivers scalability, efficiency, and 24/7 managed services, making it a superior alternative to traditional SAN and all-flash array solutions.
