News -- Evaluating Cloud Application Platforms

Anna Liu, Associate Professor in services engineering at the UNSW School of Computer Science, released a conference paper to be release and discussed on the Australian Architecture Forum 2009 where she will be approaching her findings on performance and reliability on main stream cloud providers.

Amazon EC2/S2/SimpleDB, Google's AppEngine, and Microsoft Azure are being compared in this test. The analysis simulated 2000 concurrent users connecting to services from each of the three providers, with researchers measuring response times and other performance metrics.

Here you can find more information on what Anna Liu had to say about the research, but the most interesting part is:

Response times on the service also varied by a factor of twenty depending on the time of day the services were accessed, she said

If you are attending to the Australian Architecture Forum 2009 in August 24, 2009 or the Object Oriented Programming, System, Languages, and Applications in Octuber 27, 2009. Please come back and drop a comment on how the discussion was and what your opinion.

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