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Google is trying to establish an independent cloud benchmark, driven by a new tool called PerfKit Benchmarker. The tool's open source, but Google's not being entirely charitable: it says it created the tool because customers struggled to compare apples to apples when assessing the performance of Google's cloud and rival …

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  1. p3rfguy

    Head of the Google Cloud Performance Team

    Thanks for the post. I sincerely hope the benchmarker continues to get great scrutiny. If something seems unfair we want to fix it. If an important cloud benchmark is missing we want to add it. A number of partners are working to adding OpenStack to get comparisons to hybrid clouds... I love it. We look forward to seeing posts thatv use Perfkit. It makes getting the numbers easy so everyone can focus on driving better cloud perf and doing interesting analysis.

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  2. Z80A

    Show the numbers!

    The accompanying PerfKit Explorer on GitHub lets one set up a private benchmark score database and seems to include about 2GB of measurements in text format. Is there a public site for exploring that data set?

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