Someone must stress-test the cloud if we want to take it seriously, as a real IT resource for the real business. On the last week some Australian researchers took up the challenge, and the stress-tests showed that the infrastructure of on-demand services offered by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft suffers from regular performance and availability issues. Researchers have created a web load stress test that simulated 2200 simultaneous user connections to applications hosted on Amazon EC2, Google AppEngine platform and Microsoft Azure Cloud computing.
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