Amazon EC2 a1.medium, November 28th 2018

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Note: This trial is "Off rankings" which means it is not included in the Screener and it is not considered for Best VPS rankings. "Off rankings" trials may either be previews where the VPS has been provisioned by the provider specifically for VPSBenchmarks, they may belong to a plan that exceeds the maximum number of plans that can be listed per provider or they're too old.

On this page, you'll find:

  • Price and specifications for the a1.medium 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 a1.medium (Off rankings) $18.36 $11.75/month
(-36%)
Minimum: 1 year
Yes 1 2 20

Datacenter CPU type CPU details OS, Kernel and Virtualization Data transfer (GB)
us-east-1a ARM Graviton Frequency:
2.3 GHz

Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS

4.15.0

Nitro

100

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

VPS Instance Provisioning Time

It took 20 seconds from the time the order took place to the time this instance was ready to accept connections.

All VPS provisioning times

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.

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 - a1.medium VPS plan.

Network Transfers

We have performed large file transfers from the Amazon EC2 - a1.medium VPS, both downloads and uploads and we measured the speed of the transfers.

The transfers involve multiple files, 10 threads and last for at least 10 seconds at maximum speed. The transfers are repeated 4 times from different nearby servers and only the fastest transfer is considered in grades and comparisons.

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