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EC2 Network Performance Cheat Sheet

This vast compilation of benchmark runs considers almost every EC2 instance type and gives you an idea about what kind of throughput to expect.

Andreas Wittig

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Jan. 09, 18 · Cloud Zone ·

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What is the maximum network throughput of your EC2 instance? The answer to this question is key to choosing the type of an instance or defining monitoring alerts on network throughput.

Unfortunately, you will only find very vague information about the networking capabilities of EC2 instances within AWS' service description and documentation. That’s why I ran a network performance benchmark for almost all EC2 instance types within the last few days. The results are compiled into the following cheat sheet.

INSTANCE TYPE	MIN (Gbit/s)	MAX (Gbit/s)	AVG (Gbit/s)	STDDEV (Gbit/s)
c4.large	0.662	0.663	0.662	0.000
c4.xlarge	1.337	1.338	1.337	0.000
c4.2xlarge	2.519	2.522	2.521	0.001
c4.4xlarge	5.036	5.037	5.037	0.000
c4.8xlarge	5.035	9.861	5.840	1.877
c5.large	10.043	10.046	10.045	0.001
c5.xlarge	10.044	10.046	10.045	0.000
c5.2xlarge	10.044	10.049	10.046	0.002
c5.4xlarge	10.043	10.102	10.055	0.020
c5.9xlarge	10.044	10.050	10.047	0.002
c5.18xlarge	24.607	24.614	24.611	0.002
d2.xlarge	1.336	1.338	1.337	0.000
d2.2xlarge	2.519	2.523	2.521	0.001
d2.4xlarge	5.035	5.038	5.037	0.000
d2.8xlarge	5.036	9.861	9.216	1.525
g3.4xlarge	10.094	10.103	10.099	0.003
g3.8xlarge	10.097	10.103	10.100	0.003
g3.16xlarge	20.640	24.635	23.755	1.324
h1.2xlarge	10.097	10.102	10.100	0.002
h1.4xlarge	10.097	10.103	10.100	0.003
h1.8xlarge	10.097	10.103	10.100	0.002
h1.16xlarge	20.739	24.636	23.805	1.458
i3.large	8.706	10.099	9.945	0.405
i3.xlarge	9.634	10.097	10.053	0.126
i3.2xlarge	10.093	10.102	10.098	0.003
i3.4xlarge	10.094	10.103	10.098	0.003
i3.8xlarge	10.094	10.102	10.099	0.003
i3.16xlarge	17.261	24.609	23.554	2.297
m3.medium	0.334	0.336	0.335	0.001
m3.large	0.707	0.711	0.709	0.002
m3.xlarge	1.027	1.032	1.029	0.002
m3.2xlarge	1.027	1.031	1.029	0.002
m4.large	0.488	0.489	0.489	0.000
m4.xlarge	0.840	0.841	0.841	0.000
m4.2xlarge	1.031	1.035	1.033	0.002
m4.4xlarge	2.064	2.068	2.066	0.002
m4.10xlarge	5.036	9.860	5.725	1.751
m4.16xlarge	20.120	24.633	23.913	1.348
m5.large	10.016	10.047	10.041	0.008
m5.xlarge	10.043	10.047	10.045	0.001
m5.2xlarge	10.044	10.049	10.047	0.002
m5.4xlarge	10.044	10.050	10.047	0.002
m5.12xlarge	10.043	10.050	10.047	0.003
m5.24xlarge	24.580	24.613	24.597	0.015
p2.xlarge	1.310	1.313	1.312	0.001
p2.8xlarge	10.161	10.169	10.165	0.003
p2.16xlarge	19.294	24.635	23.385	2.126
p3.2xlarge	10.092	10.102	10.098	0.003
p3.8xlarge	10.094	10.103	10.099	0.003
p3.16xlarge	19.719	24.636	22.619	1.885
r3.large	0.538	0.540	0.539	0.001
r3.xlarge	0.790	0.795	0.792	0.002
r3.2xlarge	1.030	1.032	1.030	0.001
r3.4xlarge	2.057	2.059	2.058	0.001
r3.8xlarge	5.037	9.860	5.641	1.646
r4.large	7.119	10.099	9.770	0.893
r4.xlarge	10.011	10.099	10.092	0.021
r4.2xlarge	10.094	10.102	10.098	0.003
r4.4xlarge	10.094	10.102	10.099	0.003
r4.8xlarge	10.095	10.103	10.099	0.003
r4.16xlarge	20.773	24.636	23.758	1.279
t1.micro	0.093	0.094	0.094	0.001
t2.nano	0.496	0.497	0.497	0.000
t2.micro	0.988	0.992	0.991	0.001
t2.small	0.985	0.994	0.992	0.002
t2.medium	0.989	0.997	0.996	0.002
t2.large	0.997	1.004	1.003	0.001
t2.xlarge	1.008	1.012	1.011	0.001
t2.2xlarge	1.017	1.020	1.019	0.001
x1.16xlarge	10.163	10.168	10.166	0.002
x1.32xlarge	17.250	23.972	20.611	2.835
x1e.xlarge	10.039	10.099	10.094	0.015
x1e.2xlarge	10.097	10.099	10.098	0.001
x1e.4xlarge	10.096	10.102	10.099	0.002
x1e.8xlarge	10.097	10.103	10.100	0.003
x1e.16xlarge	10.096	10.103	10.099	0.003
x1e.32xlarge	15.899	23.933	20.751	2.900

I’ve run the network performance benchmark in us-east-1 from December 29th, 2017 to January 5th, 2018 using iperf3. A benchmark run took 30 seconds. Each EC2 instance was used for nothing more than to benchmark. The table summarizes at least 10 benchmark runs per instance type. A c5.18xlarge was used as counterparty for the network benchmark of each instance type.

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