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,
"AIO-Stress 0.21 - Test: Random Write",
Higher Results Are Better
"m1.small",34.1,35.22,36.54
"m1.medium",46.55,48.26,62.32,62.88,66.14,68.1
"m1.large",143.66,164,158.27,183.5,185.94,340.38
"idcloud2.sm1",403.16,407.74,394.41
"idcloud1.sm1",20.85,17.98,17.08,21.01,20.99,18.66
"idcloud2.m1",511.21,542.22,542.44
"idcloud1.m1",45.85,47.45,48.65
"idcloud2.l1",1556.59,1995.78,2013.73,1999.66,2087.9,2113.72
"idcloud1.l1",1169.02,1070.68,1199.88,1043.63,1232.86,1052.73
"C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"m1.small",803.62,801.519,801.396
"m1.medium",429.843,429.769,429.643
"m1.large",190.466,190.429,190.835
"idcloud2.sm1",159.805,162.764,162.674
"idcloud1.sm1",165.924,165.523,165.574
"idcloud2.m1",82.194,82.695,81.854
"idcloud1.m1",84.753,85.454,85.28
"idcloud2.l1",20.685,20.715,20.709
"idcloud1.l1",22.535,22.207,22.258
"Crafty 23.4 - Elapsed Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"m1.small",336.88,336.71,336.94
"m1.medium",168.28,168.23,168.71
"m1.large",152.24,151.97,152.16
"idcloud2.sm1",92.17,92.57,92.08
"idcloud1.sm1",126.25,127.31,127.26
"idcloud2.m1",93.55,93.53,93.39
"idcloud1.m1",132.89,133.19,132.57
"idcloud2.l1",91.24,91.53,91.75
"idcloud1.l1",129.27,129.97,127.53
"Dolfyn 0.527 - Computational Fluid Dynamics",
Lower Results Are Better
"m1.small",128.83236002922,129.27452015877,128.14680790901
"m1.medium",54.546087026596,54.254640817642,55.487442970276
"m1.large",55.679337024689,55.551862001419,55.531079053879
"idcloud2.sm1",30.286111116409,30.148726940155,30.087410926819
"idcloud1.sm1",50.444145202637,46.403349161148,46.263218164444,45.936042070389,46.365283966064,46.262406826019
"idcloud2.m1",30.165868997574,30.386791944504,30.29393196106
"idcloud1.m1",48.814321041107,46.953024864197,46.824101924896
"idcloud2.l1",30.171213150024,30.220425844193,29.930058002472
"idcloud1.l1",46.942456007004,47.618726968765,46.308995962143
"FFmpeg 2.0 - H.264 HD To NTSC DV",
Lower Results Are Better
"m1.small",123.99825811386,121.68004798889,121.95660114288
"m1.medium",57.491745948792,57.32735991478,57.565124988556
"m1.large",34.407737016678,34.290059089661,34.358446121216
"idcloud2.sm1",32.636603116989,31.551713943481,31.739272117615
"idcloud1.sm1",51.198870897293,45.363512039185,44.948038101196,45.253516197205,44.855333089828,45.267737865448
"idcloud2.m1",23.882052183151,23.875669002533,24.11705994606
"idcloud1.m1",38.553885936737,35.328451156616,34.075748920441,34.425667047501,34.95571398735,34.95166015625
"idcloud2.l1",15.472187042236,15.223270893097,15.499574899673
"idcloud1.l1",24.753021001816,24.089048862457,24.183619976044
"FFTE 5.0 - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine",
Higher Results Are Better
"m1.small",1238.0776890159,1250.9317744766,1244.8421179294
"m1.medium",2505.3606906036,2513.5415049201,2509.4017609758
"m1.large",2614.533125203,2577.1537074745,2605.4210031983
"idcloud2.sm1",4654.42160658,4647.909448127,4672.2546742684
"idcloud1.sm1",3241.0193781597,3231.9564075711,3376.8600229381
"idcloud2.m1",4647.9170452251,4609.8805094002,4599.9107572967
"idcloud1.m1",3252.8426392382,3161.5994962549,3226.7274501432
"idcloud2.l1",4638.5891752829,4632.362879369,4637.4218530232
"idcloud1.l1",3053.8198605461,3140.2661816559,3095.4683245796
"FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 - WAV To FLAC",
Lower Results Are Better
"m1.small",29.865015983582,29.51442694664,29.587475061417,29.600320100784,29.653672218323
"m1.medium",12.497496128082,12.456187009811,12.443521022797,12.485441923141,12.44975399971
"m1.large",13.942076921463,13.944690942764,13.960685968399,13.943521976471,13.932166099548
"idcloud2.sm1",6.5503449440002,6.4062371253967,6.3918120861053,6.3914539813995,6.3826899528503
"idcloud1.sm1",11.29439496994,10.862987995148,10.791990041733,10.741437196732,10.741636037827
"idcloud2.m1",6.4963619709015,6.4107789993286,6.4179170131683,6.4196310043335,6.4120810031891
"idcloud1.m1",11.740304946899,10.957278013229,10.950315952301,10.803687095642,10.84371805191
"idcloud2.l1",6.4065220355988,6.3947060108185,6.376708984375,6.3802950382233,6.4007370471954
"idcloud1.l1",10.798676013947,10.682215929031,11.052730083466,10.835028886795,10.674444913864
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 - Operation: Sharpen",
Higher Results Are Better
"m1.small",5,5,5
"m1.medium",8,8,8
"m1.large",17,17,17
"idcloud2.sm1",13,13,13
"idcloud1.sm1",12,12,12
"idcloud2.m1",25,25,25
"idcloud1.m1",21,21,21
"idcloud2.l1",69,69,69
"idcloud1.l1",53,53,53
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 - Operation: Resizing",
Higher Results Are Better
"m1.small",14,14,14
"m1.medium",29,29,29
"m1.large",45,45,45
"idcloud2.sm1",52,52,52
"idcloud1.sm1",39,39,39
"idcloud2.m1",80,80,80
"idcloud1.m1",57,57,57
"idcloud2.l1",135,134,135
"idcloud1.l1",87,90,90
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding",
Higher Results Are Better
"m1.small",10,10,10
"m1.medium",20,20,20
"m1.large",33,33,33
"idcloud2.sm1",36,36,36
"idcloud1.sm1",27,27,27
"idcloud2.m1",59,59,59
"idcloud1.m1",43,43,43
"idcloud2.l1",114,115,115
"idcloud1.l1",73,74,75
"Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver",
Higher Results Are Better
"m1.small",320.99666,318.973758,321.347459
"m1.medium",757.876087,758.312422,757.954695
"m1.large",745.315866,742.765673,744.597855
"idcloud2.sm1",1326.127379,1316.54876,1334.766855
"idcloud1.sm1",939.109534,938.016797,937.252032
"idcloud2.m1",1327.508975,1322.022739,1320.159374
"idcloud1.m1",848.51234,833.726607,855.25797
"idcloud2.l1",1342.836994,1343.501907,1341.0908
"idcloud1.l1",926.446589,893.31631,930.167394
"John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 - Test: Blowfish",
Higher Results Are Better
"m1.small",243,244,264,261,257,243
"m1.medium",432,432,432
"m1.large",1080,1069,1080
"idcloud2.sm1",846,837,837
"idcloud1.sm1",672,660,672
"idcloud2.m1",1680,1680,1668
"idcloud1.m1",1318,1330,1318
"idcloud2.l1",6605,6672,6605
"idcloud1.l1",4608,4562,4657
"John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 - Test: Traditional DES",
Higher Results Are Better
"m1.small",921600000,847872000,877162000,902710000,929792000,895498000
"m1.medium",2166000,2108000,2166000
"m1.large",3874000,3899000,3809000
"idcloud2.sm1",2056000,2064000,2064000
"idcloud1.sm1",1388000,1355000,1351000
"idcloud2.m1",4087000,4112000,4096000
"idcloud1.m1",2676000,2564000,2678000
"idcloud2.l1",15499000,16318000,16285000
"idcloud1.l1",8694000,9338000,8552000,9538000,9961000,9568000
"John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 - Test: MD5",
Higher Results Are Better
"m1.small",8904,8484,8293,8436
"m1.medium",16716,16572,16008
"m1.large",17520,17544,17604
"idcloud2.sm1",32532,29904,32304,32604,32352,32412
"idcloud1.sm1",22704,22620,21876
"idcloud2.m1",32460,32448,32388
"idcloud1.m1",22824,22464,22440
"idcloud2.l1",32448,32436,32556
"idcloud1.l1",21504,21396,21156
"N-Queens 1.0 - Elapsed Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"m1.small",1000.326,1000.216,1001.019
"m1.medium",457.236,458.11,457.303
"m1.large",239.306,238.35,238.582
"idcloud2.sm1",276.014,276.151,275.857
"idcloud1.sm1",371.07,370.567,370.952
"idcloud2.m1",138.35,138.556,138.585
"idcloud1.m1",189.43,187.266,186.562
"idcloud2.l1",34.711,34.629,34.662
"idcloud1.l1",47.272,47.352,47.551
"OpenSSL 1.0.1c - RSA 4096-bit Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"m1.small",21.1,21.2,21.1
"m1.medium",55.5,56,55.8
"m1.large",44.3,44.5,44.5
"idcloud2.sm1",103.1,103.2,102.6
"idcloud1.sm1",54.8,53.9,54.4
"idcloud2.m1",102.7,102.8,102.5
"idcloud1.m1",54.3,54,53.7
"idcloud2.l1",102.8,102.6,102.3
"idcloud1.l1",51.8,53.8,54
"Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 - 256MB File Compression",
Lower Results Are Better
"m1.small",201.53888893127,203.71088409424,216.91474413872,202.76536488533
"m1.medium",80.538581132889,80.663371086121,80.128087043762
"m1.large",44.647322177887,44.359079837799,44.49126291275
"idcloud2.sm1",42.670159101486,42.67599606514,42.087462902069
"idcloud1.sm1",59.002843141556,58.771556138992,58.806980133057
"idcloud2.m1",21.738003969193,21.736876010895,21.72149014473
"idcloud1.m1",32.318763971329,31.0071849823,31.918148040771
"idcloud2.l1",6.4752390384674,5.7916741371155,5.6583080291748,5.6545829772949,5.6695759296417,5.8640711307526
"idcloud1.l1",9.0356228351593,8.7248349189758,8.5723598003387
"PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"m1.small",394,417,374,423,443,443
"m1.medium",1497,1506,1506
"m1.large",1602,1612,1602
"idcloud2.sm1",1524,1543,1612
"idcloud1.sm1",1724,2232,2192,2293,2336,2358
"idcloud2.m1",2314,2336,2314
"idcloud1.m1",2155,2155,2173
"idcloud2.l1",2336,2358,2314
"idcloud1.l1",2688,2688,2777
"POV-Ray 3.6.1 - Total Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"m1.small",
"m1.medium",
"m1.large",
"idcloud2.sm1",
"idcloud1.sm1",
"idcloud2.m1",
"idcloud1.m1",
"idcloud2.l1",
"idcloud1.l1",
"Smallpt 1.0 - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples",
Lower Results Are Better
"m1.small",2670,2667,2670
"m1.medium",1283,1293,1281
"m1.large",633,636,635
"idcloud2.sm1",603,592,610
"idcloud1.sm1",899,897,896
"idcloud2.m1",297,298,297
"idcloud1.m1",454,456,455
"idcloud2.l1",74,74,75
"idcloud1.l1",114,116,115
"Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 - Pfam Database Search",
Lower Results Are Better
"m1.small",249.37573695183,247.62818288803,247.87786984444
"m1.medium",117.23816299438,116.81346797943,116.6679110527
"m1.large",57.56600689888,57.581354856491,57.531950950623
"idcloud2.sm1",57.514988183975,56.050799846649,56.114078044891
"idcloud1.sm1",100.10351395607,79.388103961945,79.278283834457,79.344913005829,79.627570867538,79.372576951981
"idcloud2.m1",30.019316911697,29.826664924622,29.797967910767
"idcloud1.m1",48.035898923874,41.994250059128,42.454543113708,41.77872300148,42.179271936417,42.099726915359
"idcloud2.l1",9.0616431236267,8.9880559444427,8.984964132309
"idcloud1.l1",14.20046210289,14.310256004333,14.328757047653
"Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10 - Time To Compile",
Lower Results Are Better
"m1.small",824.91373896599,821.19531321526,819.1799030304
"m1.medium",359.48930597305,360.40924882889,360.13441801071
"m1.large",179.52760910988,179.51930904388,179.51940202713
"idcloud2.sm1",250.41002297401,249.15804600716,249.52146196365
"idcloud1.sm1",338.3435690403,337.28513288498,333.64548206329
"idcloud2.m1",129.89243388176,130.80529499054,130.42250394821
"idcloud1.m1",188.78513002396,189.92269897461,188.91057419777
"idcloud2.l1",44.275881052017,44.502853155136,43.958143949509
"idcloud1.l1",71.01479101181,69.453748941422,70.812164783478
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 - Time To Compile",
Lower Results Are Better
"m1.small",1691.5858740807,1684.679443121,1679.0691649914
"m1.medium",813.81545996666,812.57346892357,811.60316896439
"m1.large",376.97850990295,372.80415010452,374.45759391785
"idcloud2.sm1",568.74287199974,565.15414690971,565.21903896332
"idcloud1.sm1",676.63893914223,679.34994888306,684.94064092636
"idcloud2.m1",296.76800680161,292.37300014496,293.68078303337
"idcloud1.m1",383.72807502747,378.41171884537,385.55112195015
"idcloud2.l1",84.036502122879,79.768886089325,80.084619045258
"idcloud1.l1",106.67560601234,99.363203048706,100.34253692627,102.02959012985
"Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 - Multiple Sequence Alignment",
Lower Results Are Better
"m1.small",98.00782084465,97.091320037842,97.486155986786
"m1.medium",43.164710998535,42.786757946014,42.738347053528
"m1.large",25.360718011856,27.165295124054,26.980324983597,27.066704034805
"idcloud2.sm1",24.413014888763,24.218446969986,24.19157910347
"idcloud1.sm1",36.249577999115,36.314787149429,35.891831874847
"idcloud2.m1",14.064391851425,13.933585166931,14.052194833755
"idcloud1.m1",21.528986930847,21.207509040833,21.083559989929
"idcloud2.l1",4.5426349639893,4.6522009372711,4.915785074234,5.2003860473633,4.6356999874115,4.6399700641632
"idcloud1.l1",7.4007768630981,8.8217279911041,8.019748210907,7.3894391059875,7.5486340522766,8.0044770240784
"x264 2013-06-08 - H.264 Video Encoding",
Higher Results Are Better
"m1.small",7.37,7.76,7.62,7.6,7.68
"m1.medium",16.31,16.3,16.37,16.35,16.31
"m1.large",30.19,29.93,30.9,30.6,30.39
"idcloud2.sm1",28.33,31.32,31.09,31.34,30.94,31.32,31.49,31.51
"idcloud1.sm1",17.96,20.61,20.49,20.5,20.68,20.5,20.49,20.27,20.41,20.51
"idcloud2.m1",53.23,52.9,53.62,53.48,54.35
"idcloud1.m1",30.8,34.65,34.52,34.86,34.61,34.96,35.41,35.22,34.57,35.18
"idcloud2.l1",174.74,192.38,194.21,192.16,192.83,193.25,192.26,193.64
"idcloud1.l1",111.71,116.79,116.74,119.36,111.93