The document discusses benchmarking the performance of compute and database services on the cloud. It outlines procedures to test IOPS, network performance, and CPU usage of a compute instance and database throughput, connections, and queries per second of a DB service. Tests were run varying threads, block sizes, and parallel connections. The compute instance showed optimal IOPS at specific block sizes and higher write than read performance. Database performance increased with more connections but was limited by the server. Issues noted were inability to directly measure IOPS and lack of short-term monitoring data. Finally, a WordPress application was deployed on a compute instance connected to a database service to test performance.