Clock synchronization quality on Windows Azure?

Question

I am looking for quantitative estimates on clock offsets between VMs on Windows Azure - assuming that all VMs are hosted in the same datacenter. I am gu

Answer 1

I've tried to search for an answer to this specific question - but haven't succeeded!

Some references I have found about the "Windows Time Service" - W32Time - reference that the design for the Windows service targets a tolerance of 2 seconds - e.g.

• http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/time-synchronization/windows-time-synchronization-service
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939322

In practice within the Azure network I expect that the synchronisation achieved should be much better than this - but my search turned up no referenced guarantees on this.