AWS m3.medium mech Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor 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), Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 50GB OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.14.1-031401-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 40.40 |================================================ SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 113.55 |=============================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 35.13 |================================================ Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 124.29 |=============================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 109.25 |=============================================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 76.47 |================================================ Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 77.58 |================================================ IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 34.86 |================================================ IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 27.59 |================================================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 2.80 |================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 9.84 |================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 34.02 |================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 27.81 |================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 30.47 |================================================ PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 319 |================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 50.60 |================================================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 . 1777.33 |==============================================