Are there any providers of cloud resources that are suitable for the benchmarking of high performance/high throughput applications?
In particular, machines with a minimum of 8 cores (preferably 16/32), that can sustain sequential local disk read speeds > 550Mb/s and the machines are connected via 10GE.
If there are no cloud providers can this resource be 'rented' on casual basis?
Thanks, Stuart
Have you seen the cloud performance comparisons? It is starting to be interesting to compare the performance between each cloud provider. Have a look at Cloud Harmon Speed Test Results
Another one to look at is Cloud Sleuth