Amazon EC2 m1-small, June 15th 2014

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We have run a full suite of performance tests on the m1-small 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 m1-small 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 Hourly billing Num CPU cores Memory (GB) Disk space (GB)
Amazon EC2 m1-small $44.00 Yes 1 1.7 10

Datacenter CPU type CPU details OS, Kernel and Virtualization Data transfer (GB)
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 0 @ 2.00GHz

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Xen

100

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

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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