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Amazon AWS t2-small, October 16th 2016
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We have run a full suite of performance tests on the t2-small VPS plan of Amazon AWS. VPSBenchmarks bought, setup the server and started the tests.
On this page, you'll find:
- Price and specifications for the t2-small plan.
- The grades that summarize its performance in 5 categories based on the benchmarks results.
- Links to the detailed benchmarks results that can be compared to other providers and other plans.
| Provider | Plan | Monthly price | Long term discounted price | Hourly billing | Num CPU cores | Memory (GB) | Disk space (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon AWS | t2-small (Off rankings) | $16.56 |
$10.51/month
(-36%) Minimum: 1 year |
Yes |
1 (burstable) |
2 | 8 |
Note: the CPU details Frequency is the frequency observed at the start of the trial. It may vary as the trial progresses.
Test Results
- Web Runs: performance of a web application running on the server with locally generated load. Latencies and max request rate.
- Sysbench: CPU, disk IO and memory speed tests.
- Endurance: output over time of a long running cpu intensive application.
- Network Transfers: maximum HTTP download and upload speeds between the VPS and servers located nearby.
- Yabs: test suite that includes Geekbench CPU tests, Fio for disk IO and Iperf3 for network transfers.
Sysbench
We ran Sysbench tests on this VPS, including CPU tests, random and sequential, read and write IO tests and memory tests.
Review and compare all Sysbench numbers for the Amazon AWS - t2-small VPS plan.