Amazon Linux AMI EC2 Benchmarks Benchmarks by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com comparing various Amazon EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud instances. All benchmarks done by Phoronix-Test-Suite.com and OpenBenchmarking.org. Tests for a future article on Phoronix.com. 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 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 |========================================================== 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 |============================================================= 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 |=============== 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 |========================================================== 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 |======= 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 |======= 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 |============================================================= 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 |= 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 |============================================================ 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 |============================================================ 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 |========================================================== 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 |======= 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 |========= 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 |===== 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 |====== 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 |================= 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 |=============== 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 |=================== 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 |============================================================