Amazon EC2 Review

Features and Usability

Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.

Last updated on May 22 2016.

Feature	Value	Comment
Hourly Billing	Yes
DDOS Protection	No	Not included by default but AWS offers lots of tools to mitigate DDOS attacks for a fee.
Backups	No	Available but charged at the EBS pricing rate.
Control Panel	Builtin
SSH Keys Setup	Yes
Total Number of Datacenters	10
Number of Datacenter Continents	4
Monitoring Charts	Yes	Here again, the charts are the most detailed and varied of all providers.
Admin REST API	Yes	URL: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
Upgrade VPS from admin console	No
Mobile Friendly UI	No
Reverse DNS	Yes	Possible but only on optional Elastic IP addresses. Those addresses are free while attached to an instance.
Accepted Forms of Payment	Credit cards
Hidden CPU Model	No
Affiliate Program	No

In VpsBenchmark's opinion

Feature	Value	Comment
UI Friendliness		Most full featured UI of all providers. Many steps to go through to create a VPS. Alarms can be setup for free.
Quality of Service

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Amazon EC2 Extra Services

In addition to features included in the VPS plan, Amazon EC2 also offers the following services (possibly for a fee):

Backups	Block Storage	Object Storage	Load Balancer	Floating Ips
Teams	Datastores	Serverless	Ddos Protection

Admin UI Screenshots

Amazon EC2 Plans

Plan Specifications

Url	http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
Cost Per Month	$28.0
Hourly Billing	true
Memory Gb	2.0
Disk Gb	8
Data Transfer Gb	250
Num Cores	1
Virtualization	Xen
Burstable	Per core CPU allocation: 20%

Plan Grades

Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests.

Grade A is best, grade F is worst.

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

How are grades calculated?

Web Performance	Raw CPU Power	Performance Stability	Disk IO Performance	Network Performance
A	F	C	C	C

Performance Test Results

We conducted 5 different types of tests for Amazon EC2 - t2-small. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

Web Test	Sysbench Test	Remote Timing Test	Endurance Test	Network Transfers
Review	Review	Review	Review	Review
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Web Test Results

This plan was tested 5 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the t2-small plan and the web response times for every one of those.

Start of Trial	Avg response time	P95 response time	Avg DB time
Mar 24 2018	53ms	100ms	3ms
May 27 2017	45ms	90ms	5ms
Oct 16 2016	72ms	175ms	6ms
Oct 06 2014	38ms	77ms	4ms
Sep 29 2014	36ms	72ms	4ms

Plan Specifications

Url	http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
Cost Per Month	$11.64
Hourly Billing	true
Memory Gb	1.0
Disk Gb	10
Data Transfer Gb	100
Num Cores	1
Virtualization	Xen
Burstable	Per core CPU allocation: 10%

Plan Grades

Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests.

Grade A is best, grade F is worst.

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

How are grades calculated?

Web Performance	Raw CPU Power	Performance Stability	Disk IO Performance	Network Performance
B	F	D	E	C

Performance Test Results

We conducted 5 different types of tests for Amazon EC2 - t2-micro. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

Web Test	Sysbench Test	Remote Timing Test	Endurance Test	Network Transfers
Review	Review	Review	Review	Review
Compare	Compare	Compare	Compare	Compare

Web Test Results

This plan was tested 8 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the t2-micro plan and the web response times for every one of those.

Start of Trial	Avg response time	P95 response time	Avg DB time
May 06 2018	63ms	110ms	13ms
Aug 20 2017	94ms	132ms	24ms
Dec 17 2016	161ms	720ms	15ms
May 21 2016	40ms	81ms	9ms
Dec 07 2015	31ms	62ms	7ms
Jul 19 2015	35ms	81ms	7ms
Mar 09 2015	38ms	76ms	6ms
Mar 02 2015	36ms	72ms	5ms

Plan Specifications

Url	https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/
Cost Per Month	$37.0
Hourly Billing	true
Memory Gb	4.0
Disk Gb	8
Data Transfer Gb	250
Num Cores	2
Virtualization	KVM
Burstable	Per core CPU allocation: 20%

Plan Grades

Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests.

Grade A is best, grade F is worst.

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

How are grades calculated?

Web Performance	Raw CPU Power	Performance Stability	Disk IO Performance	Network Performance
A	D	C	C	D

Performance Test Results

We conducted 5 different types of tests for Amazon EC2 - t2-medium. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

Web Test	Sysbench Test	Remote Timing Test	Endurance Test	Network Transfers
Review	Review	Review	Review	Review
Compare	Compare	Compare	Compare	Compare

Web Test Results

This plan was tested 3 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the t2-medium plan and the web response times for every one of those.

Start of Trial	Avg response time	P95 response time	Avg DB time
Jul 22 2018	52ms	82ms	4ms
Jan 14 2018	52ms	85ms	3ms
Apr 08 2017	46ms	69ms	3ms

Plan Specifications

Url	https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/
Cost Per Month	$37.0
Hourly Billing	true
Memory Gb	4.0
Disk Gb	20
Data Transfer Gb	200
Num Cores	2
Virtualization	KVM
Burstable	Per core CPU allocation: 20%

Plan Grades

Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests.

Grade A is best, grade F is worst.

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

How are grades calculated?

Web Performance	Raw CPU Power	Performance Stability	Disk IO Performance	Network Performance
B	D	D	C	B

Performance Test Results

We conducted 5 different types of tests for Amazon EC2 - t3-medium. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

Web Test	Sysbench Test	Remote Timing Test	Endurance Test	Network Transfers
Review	Review	Review	Review	Review
Compare	Compare	Compare	Compare	Compare

Web Test Results

This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the t3-medium plan and the web response times for every one of those.

Start of Trial	Avg response time	P95 response time	Avg DB time
Aug 22 2018	54ms	95ms	4ms

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