OVHcloud Metal Instances - Bandwidth

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We measure local bandwidth between two identical machines in the same datacenter. The tool used here is Iperf 3 with TCP mode and a number of thread equal to CPU.

iperf3 --client $client_ip --interval 30 --parallel $cpu_number --time 60 --format M --json # On client
iperf3 --server --version4 --interval 30 # On server
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Cloud Mercato's assertions

With an internal bandwidth of 2GBps and 4Gbps for external, OVHcloud is far behind the 22Gbps offered by AWS. It clearly denotes the different usages that the products can fullfil.