Extensive Benchmarks Of Amazon's EC2 Compute Cloud Performance

Re:Extensive Benchmarks Of Amazon's EC2 Compute Cloud Perfor... by snewman on Saturday January 15, 2011 @02:37PM (#2107598)

I've done some long-running benchmarks of EC2, mostly for kicks and personal edification. For about 8 months now, I've had a job running on an EC2 "small" instance, that performs a suite of microbencharks every 10 seconds and records the results. Lots of raw data can be found here:

http://amistrongeryet.com/dashboard.jsp

This covers a variety of AWS operations, ranging from simple EC2 CPU benchmarks to SimpleDB and RDS operations. I also include some measurements of Google App Engine. I've put a lot of focus on measuring variation over time, and measuring outliers (i.e. 99.9th percentile, not just mean). I'd like to measure variation across instances, but haven't gotten around to it.

The web site linked above has no documentation at the moment, and is a bit broken in other ways, but the data may be of interest. I have a little blog (http://amistrongeryet.blogspot.com/) where I've discussed some of my findings, e.g. http://amistrongeryet.blogspot.com/2010/04/early-results-on-..., http://amistrongeryet.blogspot.com/2010/04/beginnings-of-rob..., and http://amistrongeryet.blogspot.com/2010/04/cloud-data-storag....

If there's interest, I'll put a little effort into cleaning up and documenting the data reporting site.

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Re:Extensive Benchmarks Of Amazon's EC2 Compute Cloud Perfor... by listic on Saturday January 15, 2011 @03:01PM (#2107660)

Hi, I'm definitely interested in benchmarking the EC2 instances. Are you doing some benchmarks that are CPU-intensive? You're measuring the one instance that you've got to use as a server, aren't you? (I'm interested more in, "what perfomance would I keep getting if I keep requesting instances") How can I contact you?

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Re:Extensive Benchmarks Of Amazon's EC2 Compute Cloud Perfor... by snewman on Monday January 17, 2011 @12:42PM (#2112807)

You can reach me at e-mail address "public" on domain "snewman.net". I'd be happy to share more of what I'm doing.

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