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Here is a Geekbench benchmark report for one of these new micro instances: http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view?id=287891 . It uses the same E5430 processors as the other m1 instances. CPU performance is about 2x m1.small based on these m1.small Geekbench results: http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view?id=241412 and comparable to a rackspace 4GB server I also benchmarked: http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view?id=243138.

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That CPU performance is consistent with what they give as the burst performance: up to 2 EC2 Compute Units, which should be 2x as much as the small instances' 1 ECU. Would be interesting to know how often/long you can burst, and what the non-burst baseline is, though.

Lower total score (higher fp, lower everything else) if your instance has an older Opteron 2218HE (us-east-1b) http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view?id=287900

To my knowledge (I've spun up many EC2 m1.small instances in all 4 regions), Opteron 2218s are only in use in us-east. The other 3 regions use E5430s.

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