m1.small Intel Xeon E5645 testing on Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 via the Phoronix Test Suite. m1.small: Processor: Intel Xeon E5645 @ 2.00GHz (1 Core), Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 8GB OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03, Kernel: 3.2.21-1.32.6.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.6 20110731, File-System: ext4 test-001: Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.40GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 1 x 1024 MB RAM, Disk: 10GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-24-virtual (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 1.0 test-002: Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.40GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 1 x 1024 MB RAM, Disk: 10GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-24-virtual (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 1.0 BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 LPS > Higher Is Better m1.small . 6657542.97 |==================== test-001 . 18428552.43 |======================================================= test-002 . 18571707.27 |======================================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better m1.small . 6112.51 |=============================================== test-001 . 7687.15 |=========================================================== test-002 . 7745.44 |=========================================================== PyBench 2008-08-14 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better m1.small . 9509 |============================================================== test-001 . 2862 |=================== test-002 . 2856 |===================