Amazon EC2 Cloud Compute Performance: December vs. February

Lastly are just some extra benchmarks conducted on some new/updated test profiles that were not part of our December comparison. But I'm including them anyways for those curious how these five Linux distributions are comparing in some other workloads with their latest updates.

Stress-NG is one of the synthetic benchmarks that tended to be impacted by the KPTI/Retpoline patches, but unfortunately hadn't been run back in December for that EC2 comparison. Of the testing now, Clear Linux and SUSE tended to be the fastest for these synthetic benchmarks.

Clear Linux was running the fastest with this synthetic Linux kernel scheduler benchmark.

Those wishing to dig through more of this latest Amazon EC2 Linux benchmark data can find all of the information in full via this OpenBenchmarking.org result file, including many more tests where the performance simply hasn't changed measurably since December.