Amazon EC2 vs Kamatera

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We have tested 13 VPS plans from Amazon EC2 and Kamatera. We'll show which one is best based on a detailed performance analysis, on features and prices.


Amazon EC2

EC2

Amazon EC2 was founded as a VPS provider in 2006.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers VPS, Database, Storage and Networking hosting products.

It has datacenters in:
  • Australia
  • Bahrain
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • China
  • France
  • Germany
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Singapore
  • South Africa
  • South Korea
  • Sweden
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United Kingdom
  • United States

Kamatera

Kamatera

Kamatera was founded as a VPS provider in 1995.
It is headquartered in Israel.
It offers VPS managed and unmanaged hosting products.

It has datacenters in:
  • Australia
  • Canada
  • Germany
  • Hong Kong
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Netherlands
  • Singapore
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • United Kingdom
  • United States

VPS Plans

Plan Name Monthly Price CPU cores Memory (GB) Disk Space (GB) Data Transfer (GB) Latest trial
Availability 1GB 1core $4.00 1 1.0 20 5000 Nov 05 2023
Availability 2GB 1 core $6.00 1 2.0 20 5000 Sep 20 2023
General 1GB 1 core $9.00 1 1.0 20 5000 Feb 07 2024
General 2GB 1 core $15.00 1 2.0 20 5000 Jun 28 2024
Availability 4GB 2 cores $19.00 2 4.0 40 5000 Mar 27 2024
m7g.medium $30.98 1 4.0 20 0 Jul 28 2023
General 4GB 2 cores $42.00 2 4.0 40 5000 Aug 13 2024
Availability 8GB 4 cores (Off rankings) $42.00 4 8.0 80 5000 Sep 28 2024
m7a.medium $43.33 1 4.0 20 0 Mar 18 2024
c7i.large $71.06 2 4.0 40 0 Sep 10 2024
General 8GB 4 cores $90.00 4 8.0 80 5000 Dec 20 2023
Availability 16GB 8 cores $99.00 8 16.0 150 5000 May 13 2024
m7i.2xlarge $293.90 8 32.0 0 0 Oct 28 2024

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Note: "Off rankings" plans are not included in the Screener and are not considered for Best VPS rankings. They may either be previews where the VPS have been directly provisioned by the provider, they may be too old or they may exceed the maximum number of plans that can be listed for each provider.

Performance Grades

To summarize the performance of each VPS plan, we generated grades based on the various tests that were run: web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Each grade focuses on one aspect of the VPS speed or stability (cpu, disk IO, network IO...) and is made of one or more metrics measured during the tests.

Grades are evenly distributed between A and F. A is best, F is worst.

Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.

How are grades calculated?

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Plan Name Web Perf Raw CPU Power Perf Stability Disk IO Perf Network Perf
Availability 1GB 1core
$4.00
C F E B C
Availability 2GB 1 core
$6.00
C F D A D
General 1GB 1 core
$9.00
D F D B B
General 2GB 1 core
$15.00
E F C B B
Availability 4GB 2 cores
$19.00
D E E B B
m7g.medium
$30.98
C E A F C
General 4GB 2 cores
$42.00
C E B B C
Availability 8GB 4 cores (Off rankings)
$42.00
B C D D C
m7a.medium
$43.33
C D B F C
c7i.large
$71.06
B E D F C
General 8GB 4 cores
$90.00
B C B A B
Availability 16GB 8 cores
$99.00
C C E B B
m7i.2xlarge
$293.90
C C D F C
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Features and Datacenters

This list is a subset of the features each provider may offer.

Amazon EC2 Kamatera
Backups  Yes Yes
Block storage  Yes Yes
Object storage  Yes No
Load balancer  Yes Yes
DDoS protection  Yes Yes
Hourly Billing  Yes Yes
SSH Keys Setup  Yes No
Total Number of Datacenters  22 24
Number of Datacenter Continents  4 4
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CPUs

These are the CPUs we have seen in Amazon EC2 and Kamatera instances in the past 18 months.

Amazon EC2 Kamatera
All Amazon EC2 CPUs by plan All Kamatera CPUs by plan
AMD EPYC 9R14
Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8488C
unknown
Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8358P CPU @ 2.60GHz
QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.5+

Performance Consistency

The provider consistency score shows how much variation can be expected between 2 servers of the same type at the same provider. A high consistency score (>65) means the performance of all servers of the provider is consistent over many trials and many plans.

Providers who don't have enough data yet at VPSBenchmarks don't have a consistency score.

Amazon EC2 Kamatera
Consistency Score 46 53

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VPS Instance Provisioning Time

This is the average time it took to create an instance for Amazon EC2 and Kamatera from instance order to instance accepting connections.

All VPS provisioning times

Amazon EC2 Kamatera
Number of instance creations in sample 4 12
Average provisioning time 26s 306s

Performance in Depth...

These are some of the test results that are used to determine the grades above.

Web Response Times

We ran a database intensive web application at various levels of load on cloud servers from Amazon EC2 and Kamatera. This is the average response time measured locally on the VPS for each plan we tested.



Local Response Time per Plan

Lower is better


Maximum HTTP Load

We ran a database intensive web application at various levels of load on cloud servers from Amazon EC2 and Kamatera. This is the maximum rate of HTTP requests that each server handled without timing out.



Maximum HTTP request rate

Higher is better


During the Web Test, we collect response time metrics, rate metrics and CPU metrics. All of those are measured locally on the VPS running the web server. All metrics can be compared on the Web Performance Comparison page.

Sysbench CPU Performance

We ran the full suite of Sysbench tests on VPS plans of Amazon EC2 and Kamatera. These are the Sysbench CPU test results:



Rate of operations

Higher is better


Sysbench Disk IO Performance

We ran the full suite of Sysbench tests on VPS plans of Amazon EC2 and Kamatera. These are the Sysbench Disk IO Random Read test results:



Rate of operations

Higher is better

Sysbench test results are also available for random disk IO tests, sequential disk IO tests and memory tests.
Review and compare all Sysbench numbers on the Sysbench Comparison page for Amazon EC2 and Kamatera.

Network Transfers

We have performed large file transfers from the Amazon EC2 and Kamatera VPS and we measured the speed of downloads and uploads.

The transfers involve multiple files, 10 threads and last for at least 10 seconds at maximum speed. The transfers are repeated 3 times from different servers and only the fastest transfer is reported here.


Download Speed per Plan

Higher is better

Network Transfers measurements including download and upload speeds can be compared for Amazon EC2 and Kamatera on the Network Transfers Comparison page.

Sustained CPU Endurance Tests

We pushed the CPU of those VPS plans hard for 24 hours straight.

This test shows how fast the VPS can go for long periods of time, how stable the performance is and it also gives clues on how overallocated the VPSs may be.

Throughput variations of the endurance test over 24 hours. The coefficient of variation is the standard deviation of the test throughput divided by its average value. Low variations mean that resources allocated to the server were stable for the duration of the test and there was little contention.


Ops/hour coefficient of variation

Lower is better

Review and compare endurance test results for Amazon EC2 and Kamatera on the Sustained CPU Endurance Comparison page.

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