Evolution of AWS EC2 General-Purpose: A 13-Year Performance and Price Analysis - sysbench RAM

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sysbench RAM is micro-benchmark part of the sysbench command line. Its goal is to stress volatile memory in write or read access and report performance as MB/sec

Our goal is not to reach the maximum bandwidth, so our configuration uses the default 1KB block, a number of thread equal to the CPU and read then write access. Below, you'll find an example of configuration

sysbench --threads=$cpu_number --time=60 memory --memory-oper=$access run
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Observations:

  • The upgrade to the Nitro architecture is clearly shown at m5
  • The AMD m6a and m7a display the best performance in term of read/write