Performance Evaluation Of Alibaba Cloud Instances
The Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) serves as our scalable computing platform for conducting these performance evaluations. Alibaba Cloud ECS is designed to meet diverse business needs by offering secure, efficient, and flexible cloud instances. Its array of instance types caters to a wide spectrum of workloads, ranging from general-purpose computing to memory-intensive and high-performance tasks.
This report provides comprehensive findings from Infobell IT's extensive and independent performance benchmarking of Alibaba Cloud’s top three general-purpose instances, each with 16vCPU. The instances evaluated include:
- ecs.g7a.4xlarge: AMD EPYC™ 7T83 (Milan)
- ecs.g8i.4xlarge: Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8475B (Sapphire Rapids)
- ecs.g8a.4xlarge: AMD EPYC™ 9T24 (Genoa)
Our meticulous benchmark testing procedures and thorough analyses scrutinize various performance metrics, guiding customers in selecting the most suitable cloud instances for their specific needs. The benchmark tests utilize selected industry standard foundational and application benchmarks, including:
- SPEC CPU® 2017
- SPECjbb® 2015
- DGEMM
- STREAM Triad
- Redis®
- MySQLᵀᴹ TPROC-C
- NGINX®
- FFmpeg