Benchmarking Large Scale Cloud Computing in Asia Pacific

Abstract

Cloud services allows organizations to run their applications faster, under better manageability and less maintenance so that they can focus on their core business. In this paper we are benchmarking various public clouds (Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2 and the Australian National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources Cloud (NeCTAR)) that are commonly used by academic organizations in Asia Pacific to gauge their performances using variety of tests.