Cloud Platform Evalution Disk Tests 2 x Intel Xeon E5410 testing with a and on Ubuntu 10.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. AWS EC2 c1.medium: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5410 @ 2.33GHz (2 Cores), Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 10GB OS: Ubuntu 10.04, Kernel: 2.6.32-311-ec2 (i686), Compiler: GCC 4.4.3, File-System: ext3 Dell Desktop: Processor: Intel Core 2 6400 @ 2.13GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0RF703, Chipset: Intel 82Q963/Q965 + ICH8/R, Memory: 2 x 1024 MB DDR-800MHz, Disk: 2 x 250GB Western Digital WDC WD2500JS-75N, Graphics: Intel 82Q963/Q965 IGP, Audio: Analog Devices AD1983, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit PCI OS: Ubuntu 10.04, Kernel: 2.6.32-33-server (x86_64), Display Driver: intel, Compiler: GCC 4.4.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better AWS EC2 c1.medium . 6.77 |============== Dell Desktop ...... 24.50 |==================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better AWS EC2 c1.medium . 127 |==== Dell Desktop ...... 1525 |=====================================================