Performance evaluation of Cloud Service Providers

In the actual Cloud computing market, the Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) do not provide quantitative information about the performance of their services. This makes it difficult for the Cloud customers to choose the appropriate CSP. Thus, the importance of the evaluation of the performance of Cloud Service Providers. In our paper, and in the context of the Easi-Clouds [23], a European ITEA 2 research project, we propose a set of performance tests based on real measurements to evaluate the performance of multiple CSPs in the market. We compare the performance based on seven different metrics: CPU performance, Memory performance, Disk I/O performance, Mean Response time (MRT), Provisioning time, Availability, and Variability. Our work will help the Cloud customers choosing the suitable CSP.