Toying around with #google #cloud today, I've not seen worse performing storage in decades. This is supposed to be their premium offering, hyperdisk, with tunable IOPS and throughput.
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/hyperdisks#hyperdisk-features
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/hyperdisks
Type
Hyperdisk Balanced
Size
200 GB
Provisioned IOPS
4,200
Provisioned throughput
440 MB/s
This thing is struggling at 100% busy doing 4 IOPS, around 0.5s/write, 400KB/s on a fully idle premium CPU system with 32 cores & 64 GB RAM.
It's roughly 1000x slower than expected on all metrics.
It's an embarassment, my 10 year old laptop has better IO than this.
Is this a common experience in #Google 
馃ぁ ?