Networking performance strategy

- [Instructor] We haven't talked much about performance … so far in this course, … but networking performance is a key consideration … for some, depending on the workload. … When you have your own servers, your own hardware, … your own network, the performance of the network … is fairly easy to determine. … Your server has a network card which might be rated … for a certain speed. … The cables are rated for a speed, … the routers and hubs as well. … You might have a 10 gigabits per second network, … and so you expect communication to be fairly close … to 10 gigabits per second … between servers on the same network. … With the cloud, we're dealing with virtual machines … and virtual networks, … and the actual, physical network in the cloud … is shared between yourself and thousands … or even millions of other Azure customers. … For this reason, Azure actually throttles … the network speed for each customer … to protect the speeds of everyone else. … So the reality here is that the network performance …