Simon Krenger

While discussing the topic of cloud computing today, my co-worker mentioned the Amazon EC2 service and gave me a quick presentation of the features that are available. Since I am a big fan of virtualisation and the idea of scalable architectures, I immediately thought “This could be great to test some things out and is a wonderful opportunity to play around with different virtual machines”. So I signed up and did some quick tests to look at the IO performance…

I was especially interested in using these machines for storage and maybe some tests with databases. For these tests, my current Virtual Server serves as a reference, simply because EC2 could provide an alternative to that Virtual Server. In my tests, I included the following configurations: