Amazon Linux AMI EC2 Benchmarks macbookpro13 m1.small: Processor: Intel Xeon E5507 @ 2.27GHz (1 Core), Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 8GB OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03, Kernel: 3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 20120306, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor m1.medium: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 @ 1.80GHz (1 Core), Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 8GB OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03, Kernel: 3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 20120306, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor m1.large: Processor: Intel Xeon E5645 @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores), Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 8GB OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03, Kernel: 3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 20120306, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor m1.xlarge: Processor: Intel Xeon E5430 @ 2.66GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 8GB OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03, Kernel: 3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 20120306, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor m3.xlarge: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 8GB OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03, Kernel: 3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 20120306, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor c4.xlarge: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 @ 2.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 10GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Intel 82599 Virtual Function OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03, Kernel: 3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 20140911, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon macbookpro13: Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 3.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Apple SSD, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB DDR3-1867MHz, Disk: 500GB APPLE SSD SM0512G, Graphics: Intel Iris 6100 1536MB, Monitor: Color LCD OS: OS X 10.11.1, Kernel: 15.0.0 (x86_64), Compiler: Apple LLVM 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.72) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 7.0.1, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better m1.small .. 35.29 |= m1.medium . 59.04 |== m1.large .. 195.96 |====== m1.xlarge . 693.57 |======================= m3.xlarge . 1766.91 |========================================================== c4.xlarge . 1222.69 |======================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better m1.small ..... 416 |====== m1.medium .... 1503 |==================== m1.large ..... 1605 |===================== m1.xlarge .... 1284 |================= m3.xlarge .... 2049 |=========================== c4.xlarge .... 4335 |========================================================== macbookpro13 . 1749 |======================= Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small .. 128.75 |=========================================================== m1.medium . 54.76 |========================= m1.large .. 55.59 |========================= m1.xlarge . 67.74 |=============================== m3.xlarge . 32.28 |=============== c4.xlarge . 25.99 |============ FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better m1.small .. 1244.62 |============== m1.medium . 2509.43 |============================= m1.large .. 2599.04 |============================== m1.xlarge . 2523.43 |============================= m3.xlarge . 4203.54 |================================================= c4.xlarge . 4989.12 |========================================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small .. 248.29 |=========================================================== m1.medium . 116.91 |============================ m1.large .. 57.56 |============== m1.xlarge . 37.71 |========= m3.xlarge . 28.27 |======= c4.xlarge . 21.15 |===== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small ..... 97.53 |========================================================= m1.medium .... 42.90 |========================= m1.large ..... 26.64 |================ m1.xlarge .... 16.47 |========== m3.xlarge .... 11.94 |======= c4.xlarge .... 9.96 |====== macbookpro13 . 36.86 |====================== John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better m1.small .. 252 |===== m1.medium . 432 |========= m1.large .. 1076 |======================= m1.xlarge . 1989 |=========================================== m3.xlarge . 2074 |============================================= c4.xlarge . 2843 |============================================================= John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better m1.small .. 895772333 |======================================================== m1.medium . 2146667 | m1.large .. 3860667 | m1.xlarge . 8103500 |= m3.xlarge . 8240667 |= c4.xlarge . 4472000 | John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better m1.small .. 8529 |=============== m1.medium . 16432 |============================ m1.large .. 17556 |============================== m1.xlarge . 18224 |================================ m3.xlarge . 26892 |=============================================== c4.xlarge . 34601 |============================================================ x264 2013-06-08 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better m1.small .. 7.61 |====== m1.medium . 16.33 |============ m1.large .. 30.40 |====================== m1.xlarge . 48.10 |=================================== m3.xlarge . 60.82 |============================================ c4.xlarge . 82.24 |============================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better m1.small .. 5 |======== m1.medium . 8 |============= m1.large .. 17 |=========================== m1.xlarge . 28 |============================================= m3.xlarge . 39 |=============================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better m1.small .. 14 |========== m1.medium . 29 |==================== m1.large .. 45 |=============================== m1.xlarge . 57 |======================================= m3.xlarge . 91 |=============================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better m1.small .. 10 |========== m1.medium . 20 |===================== m1.large .. 33 |================================== m1.xlarge . 46 |================================================ m3.xlarge . 61 |=============================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better m1.small ..... 320.44 |============ m1.medium .... 758.05 |=========================== m1.large ..... 744.23 |=========================== m1.xlarge .... 593.28 |===================== m3.xlarge .... 1268.27 |============================================== c4.xlarge .... 1518.90 |======================================================= macbookpro13 . 1343.51 |================================================= Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small .. 821.76 |=========================================================== m1.medium . 360.01 |========================== m1.large .. 179.52 |============= m1.xlarge . 123.88 |========= m3.xlarge . 97.99 |======= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small .. 1685.11 |========================================================== m1.medium . 812.66 |============================ m1.large .. 374.75 |============= m1.xlarge . 233.92 |======== m3.xlarge . 211.43 |======= c4.xlarge . 151.69 |===== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small ..... 802.18 |======================================================== m1.medium .... 429.75 |============================== m1.large ..... 190.58 |============= m1.xlarge .... 107.69 |======== m3.xlarge .... 125.53 |========= c4.xlarge .... 52.93 |==== macbookpro13 . 70.18 |===== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small .. 206.23 |=========================================================== m1.medium . 80.44 |======================= m1.large .. 44.50 |============= m1.xlarge . 19.54 |====== m3.xlarge . 18.97 |===== c4.xlarge . 14.84 |==== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small .. 2669 |============================================================= m1.medium . 1286 |============================= m1.large .. 635 |=============== m1.xlarge . 331 |======== m3.xlarge . 265 |====== c4.xlarge . 189 |==== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small .. 336.84 |=========================================================== m1.medium . 168.41 |============================= m1.large .. 152.12 |=========================== m1.xlarge . 169.75 |============================== m3.xlarge . 97.60 |================= c4.xlarge . 83.61 |=============== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small .. 29.64 |============================================================ m1.medium . 12.47 |========================= m1.large .. 13.94 |============================ m1.xlarge . 14.60 |============================== m3.xlarge . 7.37 |=============== c4.xlarge . 5.51 |=========== FFmpeg 2.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small .. 122.54 |=========================================================== m1.medium . 57.46 |============================ m1.large .. 34.35 |================= m1.xlarge . 28.53 |============== m3.xlarge . 19.71 |========= N-Queens 1.0 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small .. 1000.52 |========================================================== m1.medium . 457.55 |=========================== m1.large .. 238.75 |============== m1.xlarge . 114.65 |======= m3.xlarge . 98.47 |====== POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better m1.small .. 2997 |============================================================= m1.medium . 1557 |================================ m1.large .. 1450 |============================== m1.xlarge . 1620 |================================= m3.xlarge . 933 |=================== c4.xlarge . 741 |=============== OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better m1.small ..... 21.13 |============= m1.medium .... 55.77 |================================== m1.large ..... 44.43 |=========================== m1.xlarge .... 43.23 |========================== m3.xlarge .... 93.40 |========================================================= macbookpro13 . 27.97 |=================