WASABI PERFORMANCEBENCHMARK REPORT
Comparing Performance
Between Wasabi & AWS S3

Executive Summary &Key Findings
Wasabi is transforming the cloud storage industry by offering a service
that is less expensive and more performant than alternatives from its
competitors
Performance is a key tenet of Wasabi’s engineering strategy and long-term

KEY FINDINGS
Our testing showed that Wasabi displayed aconsiderable performance advantage,
outperforming AWS in 37 of the 40 combinations
measured.
Aggregating the average performance results
across a range of object sizes and thread counts,
Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage read/write performance
was over 2x faster than AWS Standard. At the top

roadmap. Market trends indicate that cloud object storage use cases

end of the range, Wasabi delivered a +234%

continue to proliferate, addressing a range of high-performance workloads

performance improvement in average read/write

traditionally reserved for block or file storage. These “fast-object” use cases

performance for 100KB object sizes.

are redefining the way buyers think about their distributed storage solutions
and services, and their applicability in the cloud. This means any modern,digital enterprise requires millisecond access to their stored data,
regardless of the environment it is placed in (cloud, on premises, etc.).
Wasabi’s storage performance advantages are derived from its
innovative architectural design attributes. To prove the performanceadvantages of Wasabi compared to AWS, Wasabi conducted a series ofperformance benchmark tests with both Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage andAWS S3 Standard services. The tests were based on industry-standard
methodologies for evaluating cloud storage performance (see testing
methodology for details).

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Testing MethodologyWasabi’s performance testing is based on results from the Intel COSBench (Cloud Object Storage Benchmark), testing tool. This tool
was used to run a series of tests against both AWS S3 Standard and Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage to compare the write and read
performance of the two storage services in various configurations. As part of the test cycles, we benchmarked object sizes ranging
from 10 KB to 10 MB and compute thread counts from 1 to 30. Figure 1 further illustrates the benchmark environment:
The AWS EC2 compute + AWS S3 storage configuration shown at the top of Figure 1 serves as the baseline for comparison testing. In
this configuration, AWS EC2 was connected to AWS S3 Standard directly over the AWS US-East internal data center network. The EC2instance configuration was m2.xlarge with 10 Gb/s interfaces and the AWS S3 config was S3 Standard.
The Wasabi compute + Wasabi storage test configuration shown in Figure 1 involves the use of Wasabi compute resources collocatedin the same US-East data center as Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage. For this configuration, the Wasabi compute instance was comparable insize to the AWS EC2 instance and was connected via Wasabi’s internal data center network using 10 Gb/s interfaces.
Figure 1: Performance Testing Conﬁguration
Compute Resources
AWS Internal Network

COSBench Test Tool
Driving S3 Read & Write Actions
Wasabi Compute Resources

Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage

Wasabi Performance Benchmark Report2Performance analysis forsmall objects (100KB):
100KB Object Size Performance (MB/s)

KEY FINDINGS
Wasabi delivered 2x performance on Reads
and over 4x performance on Writes comparedto AWS S3 Standard when testing 100KB
object sizes.

2X
4X

134.7

94.9

Performanceon Reads
Performanceon Writes

62.4

21.0

Read (GET) Throughput (MB/s)

Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage

Write (PUT) Throughput (MB/s)

AWS S3 Standard

Note: performance averaged across a range of thread counts (from 1 thread to 30 threads)

Wasabi Performance Benchmark Report3Performance analysis for
medium-size objects (1MB):
1MB Object Size Performance (MB/s)
566.9

395.1

KEY FINDINGS
Wasabi delivered a +43% performance uplift
on Reads and over 2x performance on Writes
compared to AWS S3 Standard when testing
1MB object sizes.

43%2X

PerformanceUplift on Reads

Performanceon Writes

404.4

144.8

Read (GET) Throughput (MB/s)

Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage

Write (PUT) Throughput (MB/s)

AWS S3 Standard

Note: performance averaged across a range of thread counts (from 1 thread to 30 threads)

Wasabi Performance Benchmark Report4Performance analysis forlarge objects (10MB):
10MB Object Size Performance (MB/s)

KEY FINDINGS
Wasabi delivered +93% performance uplift onReads and over 2x performance on Writes
compared to AWS S3 Standard when testing
10MB object sizes.

93%2X

1335.4

861.9

Performance Uplift
on Reads
Performanceon Writes

690.4

374.4

Read (GET) Throughput (MB/s)

Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage

Write (PUT) Throughput (MB/s)

AWS S3 Standard

Note: performance averaged across a range of thread counts (from 1 thread to 30 threads)

Wasabi Performance Benchmark Report5About Wasabi
Wasabi provides simple and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses allover the world. It enables organizations to store and instantly access anunlimited amount of data with no complex tiers or egress or API fees,delivering predictable costs that save money and industry leading securityand performance businesses can count on. Trusted by thousands ofcustomers worldwide, Wasabi has been recognized as one of technology’s
fastest-growing and most visionary companies. Created by Carbonite cofounders and cloud storage pioneers David Friend and Jeff Flowers, Wasabi
is a privately held company based in Boston. Wasabi is a Proud Partner ofthe Boston Red Sox, and the Official Cloud Storage Partner of Liverpool
Football Club and the Boston Bruins.
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