m3.xlarge by Amazon Web Services


Bandwidth testing are conducted with local and block storages attached to the instance. We use the well-known open-source tool FIO. To express bandwidth the following parameters are used:

  • 1M block
  • Sequential access
  • No filesystem (except for write access with root volume)
  • Avoidance of cache and buffer
Specifications:
CPU
4
RAM
15.0 GB
Extra
2x 40 GB SSD

m3.xlarge instance-store

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Average 227147 106311
Deviation 17601.40 70341.75
Min 145027 1660


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