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Advances, Systems and Applications

Table 1 Cloud instance types used for benchmark tests

From: Fair Benchmarking for Cloud Computing systems

 

AWS (us-east, eu-west, sa-east)

 

Ram(GB)

CPU

Instance Storage (GB)

Architecture (-bits)

I/O

Price* (per hour)

t1.micro

0.613

2 ECUs (upto)

< 10

32/64

Low

$0.02/$0.027

m1.large

7.5

4 ECU

850

64

High

$0.34/$0.46

m1.xlarge

15

8 ECU

1690

64

High

$0.68/$0.92

m2.xlarge

17.2

6.5 ECU

420

64

Moderate

$0.5/$0.68

m2.2xlarge

34.2

13 ECU

850

64

High

$1/$1.36

m2.4xlarge

64.8

26 ECU

1690

64

High

$2/$2.72

c1.xlarge

7

20 ECU

1690

64

High

$0.68/$0.92

m1.small

1.7

1 ECU

160

32

Moderate

$0.085/$0.115

c1.medium

1.7

5 ECU

350

32

Moderate

$0.17/$0.23

Rackspace (US, UK)

1

256

Unknown

10

64

Unknown

£0.01/$0.015

2

512

Unknown

20

64

Unknown

£0.02/$0.03

3

1024

Unknown

40

64

Unknown

£0.04/$0.06

4

2048

Unknown

80

64

Unknown

£0.08/$0.12

5

4096

Unknown

160

64

Unknown

£0.16/$0.24

6

8192

Unknown

320

64

Unknown

£0.32/$0.48

7

15872

Unknown

640

64

Unknown

£0.64/$0.96

8

30720

Unknown

1200

64

Unknown

£1.20/$1.80

IBM (US)

Copper

4096

2 vCPUs

60

64

Unknown

£0.206

Openstack (Surrey, UK)

m1.tiny

512

1 vCPU

5

32/64

Unknown

Unknown

m1.small

2048

1 vCPU

10

32/64

Unknown

Unknown

m1.medium

4096

2 vCPUs

10

64

Unknown

Unknown

m1.large

8192

4 vCPUs

20

64

Unknown

Unknown

m1.xlarge

16384

8 vCPUs

40

64

Unknown

Unknown

fullmachine

32768

16 vCPUs

80

64

Unknown

Unknown