AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBM vs Oracle - VMs Q4 2024 - Block Bandwidth

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We evaluate the maximum number of bytes, or throughput, achievable by the instance, still with FIO but configured with the following parameters.

To measure IOPS, we use the well known tool Flexible I/O Tester (FIO) the following configuration:

1MB blocks
Sequential access
Read then Write
Direct access to device without filesystems
libaio engine

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