The emerging trend of edge computing has led several cloud providers to release their own platforms for performing computation at the 'edge' of the network. We compare two such platforms, Amazon AWS Greengrass and Microsoft Azure IoT Edge, using a new benchmark comprising a suite of performance metrics. We also compare the performance of the edge frameworks to cloud-only implementations available in their respective cloud ecosystems. Amazon AWS Greengrass and Azure IoT Edge use different underlying technologies, edge Lambda functions vs. containers, and so we also elaborate on platform features available to developers. Our study shows that both of these edge platforms provide comparable performance, which nevertheless differs in important ways for key types of workloads used in edge applications. Finally, we discuss several current issues and challenges we faced in deploying these platforms.
EdgeBench REF compares two edge computing platforms-Amazon AWS Greengrass and Microsoft Azure IoT Edge. And it includes two AI applications: speech-to-text and image recognition.
EdgeBench: Benchmarking Edge Computing Platforms
2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing Companion (UCC Companion)
2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing Companion (UCC Companion)
Computer Science