1) The document presents benchmark results that compare the performance of different cloud providers and instance types across metrics like CPU, concurrency, memory, and disk performance. 2) There is significant variation in performance both between different cloud providers and instance types, and also within the same instance type over time. 3) While the cloud provides benefits like easy resizing and deployment, raw performance is generally better with dedicated hosting and benchmarks show the cloud is not always lower cost. Careful performance testing is needed to select the best instance type for each application.