c5.xlarge KVM testing on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. AWS: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 c5.xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 8GB, Disk: 21GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-1065-aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.5.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM Sysbench 2018-07-28 Test: Memory Events Per Second > Higher Is Better AWS . 10520870.52 |============================================================ Sysbench 2018-07-28 Test: CPU Events Per Second > Higher Is Better AWS . 4128.38 |================================================================