EC2 Cloud Linux Benchmarks: Amazon, Clear, Debian, Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu

When talking Python and PHP scripting performance, Clear Linux continues performing very well with its well optimized bundles.

For those using Amazon EC2 to scale out and respond to increasing workloads in a timely manner, Clear Linux by far remained the fastest booting full-featured Linux distribution we have ever tested on the Elastic Compute Cloud.

Of 37 benchmarks ran on Amazon EC2 with this round of m5.4xlarge instance testing, Intel's Clear Linux distribution came in first place 51% of the time (24 wins) while Debian 9.6 came in place 23% of the time with 11 wins. The four other Linux distributions all had five wins or less each. Having the least first place finishes was Amazon Linux 2 with just one win. Additionally, Amazon Linux 2 was most often in last place with it coming in last 15 times followed by RHEL 7.6 14 times, but not entirely surprising considering their mature and well-supported code doesn't always mean the fastest and bleeding edge -- especially at this stage of life for EL7.