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Does Hetzner beat the whole IaaS market ? - Cloud Mercato

Since Cloud Mercato started to globaly evaluate the whole Cloud Market, one vendor always stands out from the crowd when we talk about European IaaS: Hetzner. Small Cloud provider but well established…

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AWS m6i : The why you should abandon your m5 - Cloud Mercato

Around 2 years after the last m5 and m5a, AWS renewed its Intel series with m6i. In short and avoiding to repeat their announce, they offer better CPU performance, a larger network bandwidth and for…

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Why you should use sysbench ? - Cloud Mercato

Among all benchmark tools available online, sysbench is one of my favorite. If I have to give two words to it , it would be: simplicty and reliability. At Cloud Mercato we mainly focus on 3 of its…

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Analysis of Oracle Cloud’s VM.Standard.A1.Flex - Cloud Mercato

Oracle released a new kind of VMs with ARM CPU, we made a benchmark to discover the benefits of this last series.

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Amazon Web Services : M5 vs M5a vs M6g - Cloud Mercato

Discover a price/performance benchmark for AWS m5.2xlarge / m5a.2xlarge / m6g.2xlarge.

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Understand Object storage by its performance - Cloud Mercato

In the Cloud market, Object storage performance aren’t something homogeneous. Depending of your usage, several factors can qualify what is efficiency.

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New C5a benchmark: Performance/Price - Cloud Mercato

AWS recently released the new series C5a equipped with custom AMD EPYC 7R32. We can discover here, a less expensive alternative to C5, similar to what they did with M5, R5 and T3.

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AWS and the volume equation - Cloud Mercato

Do you use AWS’ General Purpose SSD ? It may not be the best answer to your workload. Discover how to optimize your usage of EC2 and EBS.

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Top 10s Cloud Compute debriefing - Cloud Mercato

We recently release our Top 10 for Cloud Compute North America and Europe. With the help of our automated platform we tested near to 20 cloud providers and selected the most interesting per region.

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New HTTP benchmark tool: pycurlb - Cloud Mercato

As none of the actual tools matched accurately with our requirements we created a simple command line similar to curl but dedicated to benchmark.

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Do you warm up volumes ? - Cloud Mercato

Volume performance are often affected by a phenomenon of cold block access. When, how and what do to ?

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Observe worldwide network latencies - Cloud Mercato

Have you ever thought which provider will give the best latency to your users ? Not a theoretical value but an accurate metric representing a real end-to-end connection. At Cloud Mercato our platform…

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dd is not a benchmarking tool - Cloud Mercato

There is a widely held idea in the Internet that a written snippet will be universally valid to test and produce comparable results from any machine. Said like that, this assertion is globally false…

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Out of the wood #1 : Kamatera - Cloud Mercato

Cloud Mercato starts Out of the wood. Discover a cloud provider who’s not on everyone’s lips but worth it.

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