Amazon EC2 Linux Boot Times
KVM testing on Amazon Linux 2 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


m5.large: Clear Linux: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M @ 3.13GHz (1 Core / 2 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 m5.large (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 52GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic

	OS: Clear Linux OS 26700, Kernel: 4.18.16-80.aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 20180502 + Clang 7.0.0 + LLVM 7.0.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM

m5.large: Amazon Linux 2: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M @ 3.12GHz (1 Core / 2 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 m5.large (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 52GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic

	OS: Amazon Linux 2, Kernel: 4.14.77-81.59.amzn2.x86_64 (x86_64), File-System: xfs, System Layer: KVM

m5.large: Ubuntu 18.04: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M @ 3.11GHz (1 Core / 2 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 m5.large (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 52GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic

	OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-1029-aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM

m5.2xlarge: Clear Linux: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M @ 3.13GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 m5.2xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 31744MB, Disk: 52GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic

	OS: Clear Linux OS 26700, Kernel: 4.18.16-80.aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 20180502 + Clang 7.0.0 + LLVM 7.0.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM

m5.2xlarge: Amazon Linux 2: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M @ 3.11GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 m5.2xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 31744MB, Disk: 52GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic

	OS: Amazon Linux 2, Kernel: 4.14.77-81.59.amzn2.x86_64 (x86_64), File-System: xfs, System Layer: KVM


Systemd Total Boot Time
Test: Total
ms < Lower Is Better
m5.large: Clear Linux ...... 1069  |===
m5.large: Amazon Linux 2 ... 17793 |===========================================
m5.large: Ubuntu 18.04 ..... 16826 |=========================================
m5.2xlarge: Clear Linux .... 823   |==
m5.2xlarge: Amazon Linux 2 . 16132 |=======================================


Systemd Total Boot Time
Test: Kernel
ms < Lower Is Better
m5.large: Clear Linux ...... 382  |===
m5.large: Amazon Linux 2 ... 1822 |=============
m5.large: Ubuntu 18.04 ..... 6100 |============================================
m5.2xlarge: Clear Linux .... 305  |==
m5.2xlarge: Amazon Linux 2 . 1942 |==============


Systemd Total Boot Time
Test: Userspace
ms < Lower Is Better
m5.large: Clear Linux ...... 687   |==
m5.large: Amazon Linux 2 ... 15971 |===========================================
m5.large: Ubuntu 18.04 ..... 10726 |=============================
m5.2xlarge: Clear Linux .... 519   |=
m5.2xlarge: Amazon Linux 2 . 14190 |======================================