aws KVM testing on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. AWS t3.2xlarge: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 t3.2xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 54GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-1021-aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 t3.2xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 54GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-1021-aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 1MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better AWS t3.2xlarge . 131 |========================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better AWS t3.2xlarge . 134 |========================================================= Node.js Express HTTP Load Test Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M . 5270 |============================================= x264 2018-07-28 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M . 27.03 |============================================ Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M . 203 |==============================================