February 26, 2020

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Comparing the network performance of AWS, Azure and GCP

Comparing the network performance of AWS, Azure and GCP

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud all significantly invest in their backbone networks and global regional data center presence to support perfo …
Talk Title Comparing the network performance of AWS, Azure and GCP
Speakers Archana Kesavan
Conference NANOG75
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Location San Francisco, CA
Date Feb 18 2019 - Feb 20 2019
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Slides Talk Slides
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Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud all significantly invest in their backbone networks and global regional data center presence to support performance requirements. So how do these cloud networks actually behave and perform? This session will discuss the network performance and connectivity architecture findings gained from global measurements of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, collected from global vantage points to cloud regions, within cloud backbones(inter-AZ and inter-region) and across clouds (multi-cloud). We’ll also share some interesting anomalies we observed in connectivity and performance stability, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region

multi-cloud azure gcp google backbone performance microsoft aws network data center cloud
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