Insight 3
You get what you pay for, but not always what you don’t
When we paid explicitly for a resource we got the promised performance out of that resource.
However, in cases where the cloud provider advertised a performance range (e.g. “up to 10 Gbps”) and did not explicitly charge for a specific level of performance, the results varied between cloud providers and between runs.
We saw a wide range in performance for non-network optimized instance types, including some apparent throttling.
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