mpsp1 Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon testing on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. test1: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-48-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon 7zip: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-48-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon apache: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-48-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon apache1: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-48-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better test1 . 12277.02 |============================================================= 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better 7zip . 3736 |================================================================== 7zip . 3708 |================================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 7zip . 43.56 |================================================================= 7zip . 43.63 |================================================================= Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 7zip . 29.64 |================================================================= 7zip . 29.75 |================================================================= LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 7zip . 136.96 |=============================================================== 7zip . 138.68 |================================================================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better apache .. 6747.38 |============================================================ apache1 . 6745.54 |============================================================