Amazon EC2 t2-small, September 29th 2014
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We have run a full suite of performance tests on the t2-small VPS plan of Amazon EC2. 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 EC2 | 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.
Warning: storage costs are not included in the price above.
Warning: network bandwidth costs are not included in the price above.
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.
- Live Web Tests: latencies of a web application with live traffic.
Live Web
Web performance is measured locally on the VPS and includes Rails app response times to live web traffic as well as system metrics.
Review and compare Amazon EC2 - t2-small web performance with other cloud providers.
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EC2 t2.small is a good deal Oct 07 2014
Trying a new plan from Amazon this week. The plan a few months ago was pretty disappointing getting the worst response time of all providers.
This new plan called t2.small is unusual as it counts the VM usage of CPU credits. Above 20% of cpu usage, you earn credits, below you earn them. That works quite well for a web application such as our. It works even better because the CPU core that the VM shares with others is pretty damn fast. In the end this trial ended up being the fastest of tests VpsBenchmarks has conducted so far.
Check out the numbers on Amazon's page....