{"id":4725,"date":"2020-04-01T10:58:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T15:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/?p=4725"},"modified":"2020-04-01T10:59:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T15:59:04","slug":"amazon-ec2-vs-google-cloud-platform-storage-speed-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/amazon-ec2-vs-google-cloud-platform-storage-speed-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon EC2 VS Google Cloud Platform: Storage Speed Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\nh3{\n   margin:15px 0px 15px 0px;\n}\n.simpleFrame{\n   border:2px solid #666;\n   color:#333;\n   box-shadow: 0 3px 3px rgba(34, 25, 25, 0.4);\n}\n.tableContainer{\n    display:table;\n    width:90%;\n    border-collapse: collapse;\n}\n.tableHeading{\n    font-weight: bold;\n     display:table-row;\n     text-align: center;\n     line-height: 25px;\n     font-size: 14px;\n     font-family:georgia;\n}\n.tableRow{  \n     display:table-row;\n     text-align: center;\n}\n.tableCol{\n    display:table-cell;\n    border: 1px solid #CCC;\n    padding:3px;\n}\n.seperator{\n   border-bottom: 1px dotted #999; \n   margin:20px 0px 20px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<p>We&#8217;ve owned multiple cloud instances on both Amazon ECS and Google Cloud Platform. I always wonder what is the difference between them. So I decide to perform a very simple speed comparisons. All storage\/disks are attached on RHEL Linux instance and formatted to XFS. Everything are using the default settings. Here are the commands I used:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n#Dumping 1GB of data:\r\ndd if=\/dev\/zero of=file.out bs=1M count=1000\r\n\r\n#Dumping 10GB of data:\r\ndd if=\/dev\/zero of=file.out bs=1M count=10000\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n<p>Here are the results:<\/p>\n<div class=\"tableContainer\">\n<div class=\"tableHeading\">\n<div class=\"tableCol\">File Size\/Storage Type<\/div>\n<div class=\"tableCol\">Amazon: General Purpose SSD<\/div>\n<div class=\"tableCol\">Amazon: Magnetic<\/div>\n<div class=\"tableCol\">Amazon: Throughput Optimized HDD<\/div>\n<div class=\"tableCol\">Google: Persistent Disk<\/div>\n<div class=\"tableCol\">Google: Local SSD<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"tableRow\">\n<div class=\"tableCol\">1GB<\/div>\n<div class=\"tableCol\">150 MB\/s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tableCol\">40.8 MB\/s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tableCol\">78.2 MB\/s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tableCol\">1.30 GB\/s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tableCol\">1.20 GB\/s<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"tableRow\">\n<div class=\"tableCol\">10GB<\/div>\n<div class=\"tableCol\">68.4 MB\/s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tableCol\">31.0 MB\/s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tableCol\">68.0 MB\/s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tableCol\">62.4 MB\/s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tableCol\">338  MB\/s<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Clearly, Google Cloud is the winner in terms of both pricing and performance.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve owned multiple cloud instances on both Amazon ECS and Google Cloud Platform. 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