EC2-Cachebench KVM testing on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. t3.small: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M @ 2.50GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 t3.small, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 16GB, Graphics: Device 1d0f:1111, Network: Device 1d0f:ec20 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-1069-aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM CacheBench Test: Read MB/s > Higher Is Better t3.small . 1383.56 |=========================================================== CacheBench Test: Write MB/s > Higher Is Better t3.small . 6137.37 |=========================================================== CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better t3.small . 5413.25 |===========================================================