Comments on: Amazon EC2 prices fall + High Memory Instances + RDS

By: JohnG

JohnG — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:24:01 +0000

Yes, proper full analysis would be better, but time is always so short…

Looking at the results, a small subset of the tests let RDS down, and I’m thinking that these had something to do with network issues.

I’ll be more thoroughly retesting in a week or two.

I know that Zoopla: http://blog.zoopla.co.uk/ moved onto RDS and have reported some big improvements.

Son Nguyen — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:46:49 +0000

John, Good raw data but if you could have a chart would be much useful for a quick view. What about benchmark against localhost MySQL?

JohnG — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:30:06 +0000

I benchmarked a large RDS instance against mysql installed on a large instance using EBS: http://www.johngaltsystems.com/blog/amazon-web-serices-rds-benchmark-results/

RDS underperformed terribly…

We’ll stick with an actual instance for the time being.