[Retired] The SPEC Cloud IaaS 2016 benchmark was SPEC’s first benchmark suite to measure cloud performance. The benchmark addresses the performance of public or private infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud platforms.

The SPEC Cloud IaaS 2018 benchmark is SPEC’s second benchmark suite to measure cloud performance. The SPEC Cloud IaaS 2018 benchmark addresses the performance of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud platforms.