Amazon EC2 Web Test
m1-small - Jun 09 2014

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Provider Plan Cost per month Disk space (GB) Memory (GB) Num Cores
Amazon EC2 m1-small $44.00 10 1.7 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
Jun 09 2014 181174 136 340 500 14 59.00% 12.80% 0.23%
Jun 10 2014 144558 145 360 550 15 63.87% 11.34% 0.16%
Jun 11 2014 121833 148 360 550 16 67.45% 10.20% 0.18%
Jun 12 2014 122113 146 340 550 15 67.57% 10.17% 0.16%
Jun 13 2014 155665 145 340 550 15 61.93% 11.96% 0.18%
Jun 14 2014 135861 138 340 500 14 66.31% 10.51% 0.20%
Jun 15 2014 165121 147 340 500 14 61.62% 12.00% 0.19%

Weekly Web Metrics


Day Num requests Average Total ms P95 Total ms P99 Total ms Average Db ms Cpu idle Cpu steal Iowait
Jun 09 2014 1026325 143 340 550 15 63.96% 11.28% 0.19%

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 - m1-small web performance with other VPS providers or review the daily and weekly web metrics below.

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