Amazon Linux EC2 RHEL vs. Amazon Linux AMI
Amazon m3.xlarge EC2 Cloud benchmarks comparing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 and Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 operating systems. Cloud benchmarks by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.


RHEL 6.4: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.59GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 6GB

	OS: RedHatEnterpriseServer 6.4, Kernel: 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor

Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.59GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 8GB

	OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09, Kernel: 3.4.62-53.42.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 20120306, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
RHEL 6.4 ................. 1685 |======================================
Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 . 2055 |==============================================


Rodinia 2.4
Test: OpenMP Leukocyte
Seconds < Lower Is Better
RHEL 6.4 ................. 103.46 |============================================
Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 . 100.77 |===========================================


Rodinia 2.4
Test: OpenMP CFD Solver
Seconds < Lower Is Better
RHEL 6.4 ................. 224.44 |========================================
Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 . 247.46 |============================================


Rodinia 2.4
Test: OpenMP Streamcluster
Seconds < Lower Is Better
RHEL 6.4 ................. 56.85 |=============================================
Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 . 55.74 |============================================


Dolfyn 0.527
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Seconds < Lower Is Better
RHEL 6.4 ................. 36.66 |=============================================
Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 . 33.50 |=========================================


PolyBench-C 3.2
Test: Covariance Computation
Seconds < Lower Is Better
RHEL 6.4 ................. 6.71 |==============================================
Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 . 6.68 |==============================================


PolyBench-C 3.2
Test: Correlation Computation
Seconds < Lower Is Better
RHEL 6.4 ................. 6.72 |==============================================
Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 . 6.72 |==============================================


PolyBench-C 3.2
Test: 3 Matrix Multiplications
Seconds < Lower Is Better
RHEL 6.4 ................. 25.66 |=============================================
Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 . 25.68 |=============================================


FFTE 5.0
Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
RHEL 6.4 ................. 4355.77 |===========================================
Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 . 3986.60 |=======================================


Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2
Pfam Database Search
Seconds < Lower Is Better
RHEL 6.4 ................. 27.60 |==========================================
Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 . 29.24 |=============================================


Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864
Multiple Sequence Alignment
Seconds < Lower Is Better
RHEL 6.4 ................. 13.10 |=============================================
Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 . 12.43 |===========================================


John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
RHEL 6.4 ................. 1907 |============================================
Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 . 1975 |==============================================


John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7
Test: Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
RHEL 6.4 ................. 7279333 |=======================================
Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 . 7940333 |===========================================


John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7
Test: MD5
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
RHEL 6.4 ................. 24392 |=========================================
Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 . 26860 |=============================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
RHEL 6.4 ................. 1214.54 |===========================================
Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 . 1199.42 |==========================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
RHEL 6.4 ................. 238.34 |============================================
Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 . 210.61 |=======================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
RHEL 6.4 ................. 131.61 |============================================
Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 . 129.56 |===========================================


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
RHEL 6.4 ................. 19.93 |=============================================
Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 . 19.14 |===========================================