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.
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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","m1.medium","m1.large","m1.xlarge","m3.xlarge","idcloud2.sm1","idcloud2.l1"
Processor,,Intel Xeon E5507 @ 2.27GHz (1 Core),Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 @ 1.80GHz (1 Core),Intel Xeon E5645 @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores),Intel Xeon E5430 @ 2.66GHz (4 Cores),Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores),Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (1 Core),2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (2 Cores)
Memory,,2048MB,4096MB,8192MB,15360MB,15360MB,1 x 2048 MB DRAM,1 x 4096 MB DRAM
Disk,,8GB,8GB,8GB,8GB,8GB,54GB Virtual disk,54GB Virtual disk
Motherboard,,,,,,,Intel 440BX,Intel 440BX
Chipset,,,,,,,Intel 440BX/ZX/DX,Intel 440BX/ZX/DX
Graphics,,,,,,,VMware SVGA II,VMware SVGA II
Network,,,,,,,VMware VMXNET3,VMware VMXNET3
OS,,Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03,Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03,Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03,Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03,Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03,Ubuntu 14.04,Ubuntu 14.04
Kernel,,3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64),3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64),3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64),3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64),3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64),3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64),3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64)
Compiler,,GCC 4.6.3 20120306,GCC 4.6.3 20120306,GCC 4.6.3 20120306,GCC 4.6.3 20120306,GCC 4.6.3 20120306,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4
System Layer,,Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor,Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor,Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor,Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor,Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor,VMware,VMware
OpenGL,,,,,,,1.1.0,
Screen Resolution,,,,,,,1176x885,1176x885
,,"m1.small","m1.medium","m1.large","m1.xlarge","m3.xlarge","idcloud2.sm1","idcloud2.l1"
"x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,7.61,16.33,30.40,48.10,60.82,30.92,53.52
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,5,8,17,28,39,13,25
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,14,29,45,57,91,52,80
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,10,20,33,46,61,36,59
"AIO-Stress - Test: Random Write (MB/s)",HIB,35.29,59.04,195.96,693.57,1766.91,401.77,531.96
"FFTE - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine (MFLOPS)",HIB,1244.62,2509.43,2599.04,2523.43,4203.54,4658.20,4619.24
"Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,320.44,758.05,744.23,593.28,1268.27,1325.81,1323.23
"John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,252,432,1076,1989,2074,840,1676
"John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,895772333,2146667,3860667,8103500,8240667,2061333,4098333
"John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,8529,16432,17556,18224,26892,32018,32432
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,21.13,55.77,44.43,43.23,93.40,102.97,102.67
"PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,416,1503,1605,1284,2049,1560,2321
"Dolfyn - Computational Fluid Dynamics (sec)",LIB,128.75,54.76,55.59,67.74,32.28,30.17,30.28
"Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,248.29,116.91,57.56,37.71,28.27,56.56,29.88
"Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,97.53,42.90,26.64,16.47,11.94,24.27,14.02
"Timed ImageMagick Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,821.76,360.01,179.52,123.88,97.99,249.70,130.37
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,1685.11,812.66,374.75,233.92,211.43,566.37,294.27
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,802.18,429.75,190.58,107.69,125.53,161.75,82.25
"Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,206.23,80.44,44.50,19.54,18.97,42.48,21.73
"Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,2669,1286,635,331,265,602,297
"Crafty - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,336.84,168.41,152.12,169.75,97.60,92.27,93.49
"FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,29.64,12.47,13.94,14.60,7.37,6.42,6.43
"FFmpeg - H.264 HD To NTSC DV (sec)",LIB,122.54,57.46,34.35,28.53,19.71,31.98,23.96
"N-Queens - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,1000.52,457.55,238.75,114.65,98.47,276.01,138.50
"POV-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,2997,1557,1450,1620,933,823,827