Google storage is faster than s3

In a previous post I looked at the potential for cloud storage to serve as a web application's datastore, and found s3's performance to be quite adequate for that purpose. I was then curious to compare the performance of s3 with that of Google storage.

The crude benchmarks I ran showed Google storage to be much faster, with the difference particularly dramatic for reads where Google's optimizations were evident, running an order of magnitude faster than comparably sized writes. s3 also shows superior performance for reads over writes, but the difference is much smaller. Google storage's performance is superior across the board, and for small data sizes, even Google storage writes were faster than s3 reads of any size.

rate/s	t	op type	storage type	host type	chunk size
46.5	0.02	read	gs	gce	small
36.0	0.03	read	gs	gce	medium
20.5	0.05	read	gs	gce	large
10.3	0.10	read	s3	ec2	small
10.2	0.10	read	s3	ec2	medium
6.1	0.16	write	gs	gce	small
5.4	0.18	write	gs	gce	medium
5.2	0.19	write	s3	ec2	small
4.5	0.22	write	s3	ec2	medium
4.5	0.22	write	gs	gce	large
4.3	0.23	read	s3	ec2	large
2.9	0.35	write	s3	ec2	large