Amazon EC2 t2-micro, May 6th 2018

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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

Datacenter CPU type CPU details OS, Kernel and Virtualization Data transfer (GB)
us-east-1a Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2676 v3 @ 2.40GHz Frequency:
2.4 GHz

Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS

4.4.0

Xen

100

Note: the CPU details Frequency is the frequency observed at the start of the trial. It may vary as the trial progresses.

Grades

Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance, yabs (geekbench, fio, iperf3) and network transfers 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?

Overall Score: 36 (Price Weighted)

Web Performance Raw CPU Power Performance Stability Disk IO Performance Network Performance
B F E E C
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Note: A low grade on a low price VPS does not necessarily mean the VPS is underperforming, the server may still perform better than other servers at the same price. Use the Price Weighted Grades or the Best VPS 2024 rankings to find the best VPS in each price range.

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.
  • Remote timings: latencies of a web application measured from 4 different continents.

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-micro web performance with other cloud providers.

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 EC2 - t2-micro VPS plan.

Remote Timings

Response times for this VPS were continuously measured from 5 locations and 4 continents in the world. Each measure includes DNS resolution time, connection time, TLS handshake time and server response time.

Review and compare all Remote Timings numbers for the Amazon EC2 - t2-micro VPS plan.

Sustained CPU Endurance Run

Can your VPS handle 24 hours of sustained CPU load without flinching? How much can it handle? Does the provider throttle your CPU after a while?

Review and compare all Endurance numbers for the Amazon EC2 - t2-micro VPS plan.

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