Hi everyone. We are a small data company based in Europe. We use prefect since months without going on cloud. We built all our automation flows on prefect and it's an amazing tool, thanks a lot for your work. We decided to move some flows on the prefect cloud backend and we were surprised to see the total duration time increase by a factor of two compared to our local prefect backend server. The flow on which we ran the tests is one of the longest in our stack (191 tasks, 26 parameters). Keeping the same agent, executor, computer, and parameters. We move from 65s to 135s. Each task takes on average +100% time increase (even the parameters collection). So, we understand that there is some time cost linked to the exchange of state information and metadata but could you, dear fellow community, please help us with the following questions? 1. Is the time gap between runs on the prefect cloud backend and the prefect server backend proportional: The longer the flow, the longer the time gap? 2. Are there any good practices to reduce this time gap? 3. Upgrading to the standard or enterprise offer will that make things faster? Thanks a lot :) Extra information: Our internet connection at the office 127 mbps/s download, 7.8 mbps/s upload.

Hi @juumel_team! This is not expected, especially since all of the resources are the same. Just to be sure, are you comparing the tasks one-to-one and all are consistently double the execution time? Do you have mapped tasks here? Have you tried another flow and seen the same behavior?

Hi @Kevin Kho, thanks for the answer. Yes we compared the same tasks one-to-one and the execution time double in average (see the capture bellow). There is no mapped tasks in this Flow. And we didn't tried another Flow yet, but I will try one today.

That’s being loaded from something like S3? It should be the speed of the machine it’s running on so if it’s running on the same machine, I don’t get why the big gap….We’ll talk about this and see how we can debug.

No the model is stored locally. Same machine it's currently my laptop. Thanks, I will keep you update, if a gap exist with another flow. Some version info (in case of): 5.10.38-1-MANJARO, Docker 20.10.6, python 3.8.6, prefect 0.13.19

Gotcha, Thanks for the additional information

Ok, thanks a lot @Kevin Kho, I will continue a but further the investigation and I will keep you inform if I find something.