a1.xlarge ARMv8 Cortex-A72 testing on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. AWS: Processor: ARMv8 Cortex-A72 (4 Cores), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 a1.xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Amazon Device 0200, Memory: 8GB, Disk: 21GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-1065-aws (aarch64), Compiler: GCC 7.5.0, File-System: ext4 Sysbench 2018-07-28 Test: Memory Events Per Second > Higher Is Better AWS . 9954499.22 |============================================================= Sysbench 2018-07-28 Test: CPU Events Per Second > Higher Is Better AWS . 9127.32 |================================================================