So what is the API efficiency on that new service? Here we want to compare the Time-to-First-Byte which give us an idea how the cluster manage to process the request, identify the object, check the right to access it and return it. So we’ll send tones of 1 Byte objects and measure the time needed to access it.
To be fare in that test, we need to take in consideration country email list that we’ll get out to the OVHcloud network to reach the AWS cluster. Here are the ping we got :
Time-to-First-Byte test
OVHcloud High Perf looks a little bit better, but considering the latency difference we have on the network part, we could considere AWS S3 and OVHcloud High Perf got the same result.
Small and medium files test
Now we’ll test not only the API but a normal object usage looking on files from 10KB to 10MB which represent plenty of usages, especially when it comes to serve statics on the web. That could represent code, images, sound…
As you can see, we leaved the field where the latency advantage where on OVHcloud side and we enter in the real performances using the whole chain including writing and reading on disks. Here, OVHcloud High Perf takes clearly the lead on 1MB files with around 55% faster than AWS S3 on download tests.
Large files test
When we move to 100MB files and more, we enter this newly developed wetsuit is made using the industry’s in a different space where the bandwidth is the main part which impact the global result. Here the data could be of course videos but also specific application files or large datasets.
Here, the upload performances are almost the same for AWS and OVHcloud but we still have a real difference on the download test with around 30% advantage in favor of OVHcloud High Perf.
Some take away about this new offer
Regarding the pure performances, OVHcloud High Perf Object Storage is a great challenger for AWS S3. The API is as fast as our competitor. We can notice aero leads a real advantage for OVHcloud on medium files (1MB to 100MB) where we go over 50% (1MB) faster than AWS on download and around 40% on upload (1MB).