IaaS Performance Benchmarks Part 2: AWS

Grazed from NetworkComputing. Author: Joe Masters Emison.

This is the second part in a series of articles about creating my own IaaS performance benchmarking project. In the first part, I explained the methodology I’m using to I’m test instance types across major IaaS providers. In this part, I post the results from my tests of Amazon Web Services instance types.

I launched more than 175 AWS VMs across current instance types, in all three U.S. regions (East, West, and Oregon), and in three availability zones (AZs) per region. (West and Oregon only have three AZs, and East — for me — only has three AZs that allowed me to launch all of the instance types in it). I ran instance-store-backed instances for every instance type I could; I ran EBS-backed for the t1.micro, and HVM- EBS-backed for the m3s and high-computing instance types…

In addition, I ran EBS-backed for a few of the instances that you can run either instance-store-backed or EBS-backed to see if there was a performance difference. The high-computing types aren’t allowed in US-West, and the cg type is only available in US-East, and I was blocked from running a few instances in one of the US-West AZs. I ran a mix of spot and on-demand and couldn’t find any performance difference between them…

Read more from the source @ http://www.networkcomputing.com/cloud-computing/iaas-performance-benchmarks-part-2-aws/240162730