AWS m3.medium SSD Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon testing on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 3840 MB RAM, Disk: 296GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-29-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 82.03 |================================================ SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 68.88 |================================================ FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 35.97 |================================================ Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 246.02 |=============================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 237.48 |=============================================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 231.31 |=============================================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 154.00 |=============================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 35.69 |================================================ IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 34.47 |================================================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 675.51 |=============================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 15.76 |================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 44.78 |================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 43.82 |================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 252.59 |=============================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 27.25 |================================================ PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 1651 |================================================= Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 33.79 |================================================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 3102.85 |==============================================