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The below information details scaling and performance of File Security Storage for Microsoft Azure.

Performance metrics

Below are some estimates of how long a scan takes for various 10 MB file types. TrendAI™ collected this data by uploading 50 files of each type to an Azure storage account scanner and measuring the per-file scan duration across three test executions.

File scan times for File Security Storage with Azure (10 MB files)

File type
Average scan time
Typical scan time range
PDF
4.12 seconds
1–2 seconds
PNG
5.64 seconds
1–2 seconds
TXT
1.41 seconds
1–2 seconds
BIN
2.75 seconds
1–2 seconds
DOC
2.77 seconds
1–2 seconds
GZIP
5.70 seconds
1–2 seconds
MOV
1.80 seconds
1–2 seconds
Because the scanner processes files concurrently as they arrive, the overall upload-to-scan-complete time for a batch of 50 files is significantly less than the sum of individual scan times. For 10 MB files, upload-to-scan-complete times ranged from 4 to 8 seconds across all tested file types.

Test result summary

All test files used for these results were PDF files. Only the file size (100 KB, 1 MB, 10 MB, or 100 MB) was varied.
  • According to the first quartile (25%) and the third quartile (75%) of scan time data:
    • 100KB PDF files were scanned in the range of 1 ~ 2 seconds.
    • 1MB PDF files were scanned in the range of 1 ~ 2 seconds.
    • 10MB PDF files were scanned in the range of 1 ~ 2 seconds.
    • 100MB PDF files were scanned in the range of 3 ~ 4 seconds.
  • The average scan time for each test file:
    • 100KB PDF files: 2.67 seconds average scan time.
    • 1MB PDF files: 1.45 seconds average scan time.
    • 10MB PDF files: 1.73 seconds average scan time.
    • 100MB PDF files: 7.91 seconds average scan time.
  • Upload-to-scan-complete time:
    • The upload-to-scan-complete time for 100KB PDF files was 3 ~ 12 seconds.
    • The upload-to-scan-complete time for 1MB PDF files was 4 ~ 5 seconds.
    • The upload-to-scan-complete time for 10MB PDF files was 3 ~ 5 seconds.
    • The upload-to-scan-complete time for 100MB PDF files was 3 ~ 21 seconds.