The cloud is always going to be slower the physical hardware of similar specs. This is fact. You don't use the cloud for performance. You can't unless the prov

The cloud is always going to be slower the physical hardware of similar specs. This is fact. You don't use the cloud for performance. You can't unless the provider is exposing those kind of metrics to the system. Some systems, such as VMware can expose CPU allocation time, CPU Wait, and other metrics that show much time you're waiting for resources Azure S1s are shared CPU. My guess is that Azure is running 4 VMs per core or something, so you can get more then 25% of CPU if there isn't any contention, but you might only be 25% of that core