moving to Azure/AWS etc - performance over internet

[carl_townshend]

Hi All

Most people are moving resources to the cloud now, generally based over Internet connections, people have cifs shares / run backups etc.

What are peoples thoughts on the performance with this? Is it acceptable? have people had to deploy WAN accelerators for the job etc?

cheers

[paul driver]

Hello

I Would say it all depends  on the latency between your cloud dc and your branch office  however saying that wan optimisation boxes I think I great pieces of kit use - I would say if you don’t have a very good high connectivity between your branch and cloud then these devices will make a big difference to your day to day cloud services

[carl_townshend]

Hi Paul

The latency seems to be around 20ms on average to the cloud from our branch offices, thought some internet connections are not very big, some are 20 to 50Mbit.

Are many people having to use WAN accelerators to improve performance?

We are proposing running all AD services / DNS / SMB and other apps in Azure.

cheers