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Abstract
The SPEC Cloud™ IaaS 2016 benchmark [1] is the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation's (SPEC) first benchmark suite to measure cloud performance. The benchmark suite's use is targeted at cloud providers, cloud consumers, hardware vendors, virtualization software vendors, application software vendors, and academic researchers.