test1 Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon testing on CentOS 6.9 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 @ 2.30GHz (1 Core / 2 Threads), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB RAM, Disk: 50GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 OS: CentOS 6.9, Kernel: 2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon FFmpeg 3.3.3 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 . 27.56 |================================================ OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 . 121.37 |=============================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 10.0 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 . 1087.07 |============================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: LPOP Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 . 866055.27 |============================================ Redis 3.0.1 Test: SADD Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 . 690463.40 |============================================ Redis 3.0.1 Test: LPUSH Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 . 674462.98 |============================================ Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 . 813938.56 |============================================ Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 . 604485.62 |============================================ PyBench 2008-08-14 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 . 2779 |================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 . 8550.33 |============================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 . 107015 |===============================================