Amazon Linux Cloud Benchmarks May 2015
c4.4xlarge Amazon US East. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.


Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 @ 2.89GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 30720MB, Disk: 8GB, 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 4.8.2 20140120, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 @ 2.90GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Memory: 30720MB, Disk: 10GB

	OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.1, Kernel: 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 20140911, File-System: xfs, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 @ 2.90GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 16384 MB + 14336 MB RAM, Disk: 10GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446

	OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, Kernel: 3.12.28-4-default (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon

Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 @ 2.89GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 30720MB, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Intel 82599 Virtual Function

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-48-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon

Debian 8.0 Jessie: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 @ 2.89GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Memory: 16384 MB + 14336 MB RAM, Disk: 8GB

	OS: Debian 8.0, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 800x600, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03 ........ 4385 |==================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 .... 4464 |===================================
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 . 4658 |====================================
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS .............. 4601 |====================================
Debian 8.0 Jessie ............... 5034 |=======================================


Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2
Pfam Database Search
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03 ........ 7.86 |======================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 .... 8.02 |=======================================
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 . 7.81 |======================================
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS .............. 7.85 |======================================
Debian 8.0 Jessie ............... 7.72 |======================================


Gcrypt Library 1.4.4
CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher
Microseconds < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03 ........ 2250 |======================================
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 . 2257 |======================================
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS .............. 2297 |=======================================
Debian 8.0 Jessie ............... 1973 |=================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03 ........ 11370 |======================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 .... 11270 |=====================================
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 . 11428 |======================================
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS .............. 11443 |======================================
Debian 8.0 Jessie ............... 11186 |=====================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03 ........ 17720000 |===================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 .... 17510667 |==================================
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 . 17804667 |===================================
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS .............. 17733667 |===================================
Debian 8.0 Jessie ............... 17742667 |===================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: MD5
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03 ........ 144612 |=====================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 .... 143604 |=====================================
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 . 145526 |=====================================
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS .............. 144708 |=====================================
Debian 8.0 Jessie ............... 144324 |=====================================


x264 2014-08-30
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03 ........ 297.76 |=====================================
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 . 296.83 |=====================================
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS .............. 291.59 |====================================
Debian 8.0 Jessie ............... 294.47 |=====================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03 ........ 1546.44 |================================
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 . 1553.41 |================================
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS .............. 1555.68 |================================
Debian 8.0 Jessie ............... 1731.48 |====================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.18-rc6
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03 ........ 57.22 |=================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 .... 60.02 |===================================
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 . 58.73 |==================================
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS .............. 62.97 |=====================================
Debian 8.0 Jessie ............... 65.39 |======================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03 ........ 13.31 |======================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 .... 13.45 |======================================
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 . 13.25 |=====================================
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS .............. 13.30 |======================================
Debian 8.0 Jessie ............... 13.26 |=====================================


Primesieve 5.4.2
1e12 Prime Number Generation
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03 ........ 45.85 |======================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 .... 46.11 |======================================
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 . 45.63 |======================================
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS .............. 46.03 |======================================
Debian 8.0 Jessie ............... 45.92 |======================================


Stockfish 2014-11-26
Total Time
ms < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03 ........ 3936 |=======================================
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 . 3795 |======================================
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS .............. 3803 |======================================
Debian 8.0 Jessie ............... 3887 |=======================================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03 ........ 8.48 |=======================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 .... 8.52 |=======================================
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 . 8.45 |=======================================
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS .............. 8.47 |=======================================
Debian 8.0 Jessie ............... 7.26 |=================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03 ........ 14.90 |====================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 .... 15.76 |======================================
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 . 14.84 |====================================
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS .............. 14.90 |====================================
Debian 8.0 Jessie ............... 13.79 |=================================


FFmpeg 2.6.2
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03 ........ 12.23 |======================================
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 . 12.32 |======================================
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS .............. 12.23 |======================================
Debian 8.0 Jessie ............... 12.15 |=====================================


OpenSSL 1.0.1g
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03 ........ 1053.73 |===================================
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 .... 1056.53 |====================================
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 . 1070.40 |====================================
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS .............. 1053.40 |===================================
Debian 8.0 Jessie ............... 1053.50 |===================================


Apache Benchmark 2.4.7
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03 ........ 29575.16 |=============================
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 . 22832.39 |=======================
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS .............. 31409.23 |===============================
Debian 8.0 Jessie ............... 35129.31 |===================================