In 2021, Amazon Web Services (AWS) general purpose (gp2) disks were most cost-effective, compared to other disks from AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
Cloud computing estimated disk monthly cost worldwide 2021, by vendor
(in U.S. dollars)
In total, 54 machine configurations were evaluated and nearly 1,000 benchmark test runs were conducted.
Storage I/O performance was measured with FIO (Flexible I/O tester) version 3.1.
The following disk configuration was used for all machines: 2500 GB sized disks, 5400 IOPs for io2 (AWS) and ultra disk (Azure), 300Mbps throughput for ultra disk (Azure).
Numbers are estimated.
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