Network Traffic Impact on Cloud Usage at Different Providers

The research question focuses on finding an optimal cost-less and efficient solution, analyzing the differences between uploading and downloading data between different cloud solutions. The conducted experiments compare AWS cloud platform offered by Amazon and use two of its products: computational cloud platform EC2 and storage cloud platform S3. We explore three different versions of S3 storage and S3 Standard, each of them with its own purposes, characteristics and costs. Additionally we test the data transfer and computational capabilities of a t2.micro instance of the EC2 virtual machine. Then, we compare the experiment on the European Cloud provider - Scaleway Elements and use two of its products - Virtual Instances based on the Stardust instances for computations and Object Storage a S3 compatible storage platform.We conclude that the network connection between Amazon nodes is far superior than any other, both in performance and costs. Fetching results from an AWS computational service (EC2) is much cheaper and faster when using an AWS platform as an intermediary (S3) compared to a direct transfer to the local machine. We observe a similar superior network performance in the comparison of Scaleway Cloud Infrastructure.