AWS Public cloud infrastructure

Measurements conducted against AWS are used as a baseline to compare all other results. The AWS resources are well documented publicly and all comparison instance types always match the same resources. As a general instance type, benchmarks are measured against the r5d.2xlarge which has the following characteristics:

Name	RAM	vCPUs	Storage	Network	Cost
r5.2xlarge	64GB	8	EBS with provisioned IOPs	up to 10 Gbps	$0.576 per Hour + IOPs cost
i3.2xlarge	64GB	8	1 x 1900 NVMe SSD (ephemeral)	up to 10 Gbps	$0.624 per Hour

The i3 instances provide direct mapped NVMe hardware that is ephemeral (deleted on power cycle) so are not appropriate for all application types that require persistent storage.