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EC2 Network Performance Cheat Sheet

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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.

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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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