SPEC Cloud™ IaaS 2016 Benchmark
Salman Baset, Márcio Silva, Nicholas Wakou · 2017
The SPEC Cloud (TM) IaaS2016 benchmark is the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation's (SPEC) first benchmark suite to measure cloud performance. The benchmark suite's use is targeted at cloud providers, cloud consumers, hardware vendors, virtualization software vendors, application software vendors, and academic researchers. The benchmark addresses the performance of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud platforms. IaaS cloud platforms can either be public or private. The key metrics of the benchmark are scalability, elasticity, and mean instance provisioning time.