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 AMAZON S3 & EC2PERFORMANCE REPORT
OVERVIEW
A frequently asked question regarding the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computingplatform is how well their storage system (S3) performs with their computing platform (EC2).As an FTP service that runs entirely within the AWS cloud, HostedFTP.com has, based on ourinternal performance data, created this report to discuss the performance you can expectwhen storing and retrieving files between an EC2 instance and S3.
This report covers April 2009 and builds upon the methodology as outlined in our firstreport. For more information please see the February 2009 report.
 Amazon S3 and EC2 Performance Report Presented By HostedFTP.com - April 2009
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 ANALYSIS
Our analysis focuses on the data presented in Appendix A and B
STORING FILES
 
(SEE APPENDIX A)
The performance when storing files starts at 0.07 MB/s for small (< 100 KB) files andreaches up to 12 MB/s for large files. This gives a fixed cost of
230ms
along with a variablecost of
10 MB/s
per storage operation.
RETRIEVING FILES
 
(SEE
 APPENDIX B )
TThe performance when retrieving files starts at 13 MB/s for small (< 100 KB) files andreaches up to 15 MB/s for large files. This gives a fixed cost of
0ms
and a variable cost of
15 MB/s
per retrieval operation.
MONTHLY COMPARISON
OPERATIONFEBRUARY 2009MARCH 2009APRIL 2009STORAGE
Fixed cost140ms120ms230ms Variable cost10 MB/s10 MB/s10 MB/s
RETRIEVAL
Fixed cost0ms10ms0ms Variable cost10 MB/s8 MB/s15 MB/s
 
 AMAZON S3 & EC2PERFORMANCE REPORT
CONCLUSION
From our analysis we can conclude the following:
1.
The fixed cost when storing a file has increased while the variable cost performance hasremained the same.
2.
The fixed cost when retrieving a file has decreased while the variable cost performance hasincreased to
15 MB/s
from
10 MB/s.
 Amazon S3 and EC2 Performance Report Presented By HostedFTP.com - April 2009
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 AMAZON S3 & EC2PERFORMANCE REPORT
 APPENDIX A 
STORING A FILE
 Amazon S3 and EC2 Performance Report Presented By HostedFTP.com - April 2009
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FILE SIzE RANGESAMPLE SIzEAVERAGE FILESIzE AVERAGETIME (MS)PERFORMANCE(MB/S)FROMTO
0 KB100 KB1365823 KB3380.07100 KB200 KB1101141 KB2170.64200 KB300 KB717247 KB3410.71300 KB400 KB303343 KB3151.06400 KB500 KB274444 KB1872.33500 KB600 KB114547 KB1463.66600 KB700 KB142645 KB1693.73700 KB800 KB114750 KB1684.37800 KB900 KB63854 KB2153.88900 KB1.0 MB80945 KB1755.261.0 MB1.1 MB1101.03 KB1755.881.1 MB1.2 MB821.12 MB2304.871.2 MB1.3 MB831.22 MB2814.361.3 MB1.4 MB1271.32 MB2864.611.4 MB1.5 MB1371.41 MB2565.521.5 MB1.6 MB1131.51 MB2456.171.6 MB3.2 MB10522.14 MB3955.423.2 MB6.4 MB4734.53 MB7026.466.4 MB12.8 MB3999.01 MB89810.0312.8 MB25.6 MB34319.29 MB163611.7925.6 MB51.2 MB30939.43 MB321312.2751.2 MB102.4 MB19067.01 MB543512.33102.4 MB5 GB75279.35 MB2433711.48
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