Amazon EC2 Web Test
t2-small - Oct 06 2014

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Provider Plan Cost per month Disk space (GB) Memory (GB) Num Cores
Amazon EC2 t2-small (Off rankings) $16.56 8 2.0 1

Test Results

The Web performance test lasts for the whole duration of the trial (several days) and reports the response time and system metrics of a popular website running a Ruby on Rails application backed by a Postgres database.

Web Performance

Daily Web Metrics

Response time

CPU utilization



Day Num requests Average Total ms P95 Total ms P99 Total ms Average Db ms Cpu idle Cpu steal Iowait
Oct 06 2014 195921 35 70 160 4 88.98% 0.78% 0.11%
Oct 07 2014 165283 38 75 180 4 89.64% 0.81% 0.15%
Oct 08 2014 184783 40 80 180 5 88.34% 0.80% 0.13%
Oct 09 2014 249343 40 85 175 4 84.85% 0.95% 0.14%
Oct 10 2014 238787 39 80 185 5 85.81% 0.96% 0.12%
Oct 11 2014 154491 39 80 220 5 90.39% 0.58% 0.13%
Oct 12 2014 147722 36 70 190 4 91.57% 0.53% 0.09%

Weekly Web Metrics


Day Num requests Average Total ms P95 Total ms P99 Total ms Average Db ms Cpu idle Cpu steal Iowait
Oct 06 2014 1336330 38 75 180 4 88.51% 0.77% 0.12%

Web Performance comparison


Web performance is measured locally on the VPS and includes Rails app response times as well as system metrics.

Compare Amazon EC2 - t2-small web performance with other VPS providers or review the daily and weekly web metrics below.

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