Extract cloud compute information from machine results

[stephprince]

To compare benchmarks results on local vs. cloud computing resources, we need to identify which machines are cloud computing instances. I think we could add this data preprocessing to the BenchmarksDatabase._preprocess_machines method in the _processing.py module. This approach would be similar to our data manipulations for the environments and results data frames.

One way I saw to extract this information is to search for "amzn" in the platform name (e.g. see this machine result file
) to identify AWS Linux distributions. Are there any other ways we might want to extract/save this information or approaches that would make it more generalized for other cloud providers?