Amazon EC2 t2-micro, March 2nd 2015
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We have run a full suite of performance tests on the t2-micro 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-micro 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-micro | $7.49 |
$5.26/month
(-29%) Minimum: 1 year |
Yes |
1 (burstable) |
1 | 10 |
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.
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