T2.micro_benchmarks Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon testing on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 @ 2.40GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-1105-aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon Apache Benchmark 2.4.29 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 5524.69 |============================================== John The Ripper 1.9.0-jumbo-1 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 69823 |================================================ LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 16.16 |================================================ Loopback TCP Network Performance Time To Transfer 10GB Via Loopback Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 37.94 |================================================ OpenSSL 1.1.1 RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 119.53 |=============================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 9850.25 |==============================================