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I won’t say anything, just see the numbers:

all tests run 3-4 times:

Small EC2 EBS added 16GB volume $50-80/month
# dd bs=1M count=256 if=/dev/zero of=test oflag=dsync
256+0 records in
256+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 11.5874 s, 23.2 MB/s

Small EC2 Root FS EBS
# dd bs=1M count=256 if=/dev/zero of=test oflag=dsync
256+0 records in
256+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 32.8698 s, 8.2 MB/s

Linode 1.5GB $54-60/month
# dd bs=1M count=256 if=/dev/zero of=test oflag=dsync
256+0 records in
256+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 2.25564 s, 119 MB/s

Tilaa.nl 1GB $30/month
# dd bs=1M count=256 if=/dev/zero of=swapfile oflag=dsync
256+0 records in
256+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 4.66885 s, 57.5 MB/s

see dd benchmark information

Ec2 vs Linode vs Tilaa

I won't say anything, just see the numbers: all tests run 3-4 times: Small EC2 EBS added 16GB volume $50-80/month # dd bs=1M count=256 if=/dev/zero of=test oflag=dsync 256+0 records in 256+0 records out 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 11.5874 s, 23.2 MB/s Small EC2 Root FS EBS # dd bs=1M count=256 if=/dev/zero of=test oflag=dsync 256+0 records in 256+0 records out 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 32.8698 s, 8.2 MB/s Linode 1.5GB $54-60/month # dd bs=1M count=256 if=/dev/zero of=test oflag=dsync 256+0 records in 256+0 records out 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 2.25564 s, 119 MB/s Tilaa.nl 1GB $30/month # dd bs=1M count=256 if=/dev/zero of=swapfile oflag=dsync 256+0 records in 256+0 records out 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 4.66885 s, 57.5 MB/s see dd benchmark information [caption id="attachment_286" align="alignleft" width="800" caption="Ec2 vs Linode vs Tilaa"][/caption]