Analyst Reports

Celebrating IONOS Cloud as a multiple award winner:

  • Public Cloud Leader
  • Best price-performance ratio

Comprehensive reports about public cloud & IaaS

Our independent reports provide simple, but in-depth intelligence on cloud-based IT infrastructures.

Cloud Spectator Benchmarks 2020

Cloud Compute and Storage Performance Analysis

IONOS Cloud Compute Engine compared to AWS, GCE and Azure

Cloud Spectator, a US company who specialises in consulting and benchmarking cloud computing, has put the largest cloud providers to the test. Between July and August 2020, the Cloud Spectator testers compared solutions from IONOS Cloud, AWS, Google Compute Engine and Microsoft Azure. Key results for IONOS Cloud:

  • Up to 70% faster computing

  • 100% more performance

  • IONOS Cloud SSD storage up to 4x faster than Azure & AWS

Extract from the report

"IONOS Cloud offers excellent compute and storage performance compared to the larger cloud providers tested in this study. IONOS Cloud also offers truly supreme value when it comes to the performance you get per EURO spent."

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Simplified Cloud Spectator bar chart showing that IONOS multi core performance is stronger than the competition
Cloud Spectator Benchmarks 2020

Cloud Storage Performance Analysis

IONOS Cloud Compute Engine compared to AWS, GCE and Azure

Cloud Spectator, a US company who specialises in consulting and benchmarking cloud computing, has put the largest cloud providers to the test. Between July and August 2020, the Cloud Spectator testers compared solutions from IONOS Cloud, AWS, Google Compute Engine and Microsoft Azure. Key results for IONOS Cloud:

  • Best price-performance ratio for SSD-based block storage

  • Best random read and write performance for SSD performance classes

  • IONOS Cloud offers 56% more value per Euro than Google

Extract from the report

"IONOS Cloud SSD storage beats Azure and AWS by over 4x. "

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Simplified Cloud Spectator bar chart showing that IONOS premium storage performs better than the competition