Both traditional on-premises virtualized private clouds and the new VMware Cloud on AWS provide users the benefits of server consolidation, manageability, and flexibility that VMware brings to the table. To gauge the relative merits of on-premises vs. VMware Cloud on AWS from a Big Data performance point of view, similarly configured 8-server clusters were built in both environments, and the same set of Spark benchmarks were run on both. Performance was very similar, leaving customers with two excellent options for running their Big Data workloads.
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