tesdrt Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon testing on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. testr: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 97GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-1038-aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better testr . 22718.60 |============================================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better testr . 16203.44 |============================================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better testr . 19172.50 |============================================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better testr . 17476.98 |============================================================= 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better testr . 1515 |================================================================= PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better testr . 135091 |=============================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better testr . 40.39 |================================================================