AMAZON S3 & EC2

PERFORMANCE REPORT

OVERVIEW
As an FTP service that runs entirely within the AWS cloud, HostedFTP.com has, based on our
internal performance data, created this report to discuss the performance you can expect
when storing and retrieving files between an EC2 instance and S3.
This report covers March 2009 and builds upon the methodology as outlined in our first
report. For more information please see the February 2009 report.

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 0.5 MB/s for small (< 100 KB) files and reaches
up to 12 MB/s for large files. This gives a fixed cost of 120ms along with a variable cost of
10 MB/s per storage operation.

RETRIEVING FILES (SEE APPENDIX B )

TThe performance when retrieving files starts at 2.9 MB/s for small (< 100 KB) files and
reaches up to 12 MB/s for large files. This gives a fixed cost of 10ms and a variable cost of
8 MB/s per retrieval operation.

MONTHLY COMPARISON
OPERATION FEBRUARY 2009 MARCH 2009

STORAGE Fixed cost 140ms 120ms

Variable cost 10 MB/s 10 MB/s
RETRIEVAL Fixed cost 0ms 10ms
Variable cost 10 MB/s 8 MB/s

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CONCLUSION
From our analysis we can conclude the following:
1. The fixed cost when storing a file has improved slightly while the variable cost has remained
the same.
2. The fixed cost when retrieving a file has increased to10ms while the variable cost has
increased to 8 MB/s from 10 MB/s.

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APPENDIX A
STORING A FILE

Sample size Average file Average Performance

File size range
size time (ms) (MB/s)
FROM TO
0 KB 100 KB 5603 59 KB 114 0.51
100 KB 200 KB 2038 156 KB 127 1.20
200 KB 300 KB 1864 252 KB 165 1.49
300 KB 400 KB 826 354 KB 154 2.25
400 KB 500 KB 588 448 KB 158 2.77
500 KB 600 KB 265 537 KB 201 2.61
600 KB 700 KB 251 647 KB 233 2.72
700 KB 800 KB 158 752 KB 297 2.47
800 KB 900 KB 179 853 KB 287 2.90
900 KB 1.0 MB 217 945 KB 378 2.44
1.0 MB 1.1 MB 178 1.02 MB 254 4.03
1.1 MB 1.2 MB 112 1.12 MB 264 4.23
1.2 MB 1.3 MB 91 1.22 MB 237 5.14
1.3 MB 1.4 MB 93 1.32 MB 236 5.60
1.4 MB 1.5 MB 88 1.42 MB 293 4.85
1.5 MB 1.6 MB 85 1.52 MB 249 6.09
1.6 MB 3.2 MB 950 2.24 MB 361 6.21
3.2 MB 6.4 MB 600 4.22 MB 551 7.65
6.4 MB 12.8 MB 286 7.99 MB 936 8.54
12.8 MB 25.6 MB 139 18.02 MB 1653 10.90
25.6 MB 51.2 MB 244 34.46 MB 2890 11.92
51.2 MB 102.4 MB 142 68.66 MB 6317 10.87
102.4 MB 5 GB 76 296.84 MB 26774 11.09

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APPENDIX B
RETRIEVING A FILE

Sample size Average file Average Performance

File size range
size time (ms) (MB/s)
FROM TO
0 KB 100 KB 16780 47 KB 16 2.89
100 KB 200 KB 3713 157 KB 29 5.33
200 KB 300 KB 3051 251 KB 45 5.44
300 KB 400 KB 2016 347 KB 55 6.14
400 KB 500 KB 1083 451 KB 69 6.40
500 KB 600 KB 503 547 KB 80 6.67
600 KB 700 KB 904 650 KB 117 5.45
700 KB 800 KB 380 734 KB 93 7.75
800 KB 900 KB 266 852 KB 110 7.54
900 KB 1.0 MB 290 946 KB 111 8.29
1.0 MB 1.1 MB 272 1.02 MB 121 8.46
1.1 MB 1.2 MB 180 1.12 MB 225 4.97
1.2 MB 1.3 MB 153 1.22 MB 161 7.56
1.3 MB 1.4 MB 161 1.32 MB 171 7.69
1.4 MB 1.5 MB 160 1.42 MB 196 7.28
1.5 MB 1.6 MB 156 1.52 MB 241 6.29
1.6 MB 3.2 MB 2077 2.35 MB 307 7.63
3.2 MB 6.4 MB 1171 4.33 MB 490 8.85
6.4 MB 12.8 MB 467 8.15 MB 969 8.41
12.8 MB 25.6 MB 344 18.91 MB 2517 7.51
25.6 MB 51.2 MB 527 34.94 MB 4865 7.18
51.2 MB 102.4 MB 182 73.45 MB 9750 7.53
102.4 MB 5 GB 91 246.01 MB 28378 8.67

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