AzureScope: Benchmarking and Guidance for Windows Azure

The Extreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research Labs now has a web site, in Azure of course, devoted to Windows Azure performance information.

Following information can be found:

• Best Practices

  • Deployment and Dynamic Scaling

  • Design and Planning

  • Azure Storage

  • SQL Azure

  • Network Communication

  • Testing and Development

• Micro Benchmarks

  • Blob Read Throughput

  • Blob Write Throughput

  • Table Read Throughput

  • Table Write Throughput

  • Queue Read Throughput

  • Queue Write Throughput

  • Sql Azure Read Throughput

  • Sql Azure Write Throughput

• End-to-end Application Benchmarks

  • Block Matrix Multiplication

  • Cannon Matrix Multiplication

  • Bucket Sort

  • Merge Sort

  • Sequence Alignment

  • Ping Pong

  • Deployment Cost

• Code Samples

  • Use Azure Drive for easily migrating existing windows applications to the cloud

  • Querying on Azure table

  • Use of retry policy provided by StorageClient to access Azure storage

  • Custom retry logic to access Azure storage

  • Upload compressed files to save on bandwidth and decompress them on cloud

See all resources at https://azurescope.cloudapp.net/Default.aspx