Cloud Service Providers for High Performance Application Benchmarks

Question

Are there any providers of cloud resources that are suitable for the benchmarking of high performance/high throughput applications?

In particular, machines with a minimum of 8 cores (preferably 16/32), that can sustain sequential local disk read speeds > 550Mb/s and the machines are connected via 10GE.

If there are no cloud providers can this resource be 'rented' on casual basis?

Thanks, Stuart

Answer 1

Have you seen the cloud performance comparisons? It is starting to be interesting to compare the performance between each cloud provider. Have a look at Cloud Harmon Speed Test Results

Another one to look at is Cloud Sleuth