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New Google Perfkit Benchmarker has the ability to compare performance values across Google Engine, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure cloud platforms. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Comparing Public Cloud Platforms isn\u2019t always easy\u2014especially when it comes to performance evaluation. Price and feature chart comparison can only get you so far. Last month Google made that task a lot easier by releasing their new Perfkit Benchmarker. Perfkit is, in Google\u2019s own words<\/a>, a means to \u201c\u2026define a canonical set of benchmarks to measure and compare cloud offering.\u201d Shorthand: Perfkit compares performance across public cloud IaaS providers. So far, the Perfkit tools<\/a> support Google\u2019s Compute Engine, Microsoft\u2019s Azure, and Amazon\u2019s AWS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sample Perfkit Explorer Dashboard<\/p><\/div>\n

Perfkit runs about 20 different benchmark tests after installation<\/a>, and has the unique ability to measure the end to end time to provision resources in cloud, while also providing standard peak performance metrics. Google\u2019s team also released a Perfkit Explorer tool<\/a> to make interpretation and comparison of results easier for users. Perfkit Explorer comes with a set of pre-built dashboards and gives users immediate access to data from network performance internal tests.<\/p>\n

Over the last year, Google has worked on this project with more than 30 different researchers, customers and companies, including competitors such as Microsoft, CenturyLink, and Rackspace. Perfkit\u2019s source code has been released under an ASLv2 license, which Google says \u201c[makes] it easy for contributors to collaborate and maintain a balanced set of benchmarks.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Serverbear.com<\/p><\/div>\n

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There are other Benchmarking tools available, such as Serverbear.com, which compares web and cloud servers, CloudHarmony\u2019s Cloud Scores<\/a>, who offer cloud-performance updates, and Cloud Spectator<\/a>, who contributed to Google\u2019s Perfkit project, but to my knowledge none have offered an open-source service with the same versatility and scale as Perfkit.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re excited to see Google releasing an open-source tool that allows users to pit Google\u2019s Compute engine directly against its two biggest competitors, and we\u2019re hoping that Perfkit will be expanded to support comparisons to other Cloud providers soon. Google describes Perfkit as a \u201cliving benchmark framework, designed to evolve as cloud technology changes.\u201d We\u2019ll be watching closely to see if it will live up to that statement as the toolkit gains popularity.<\/p>\n
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