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by hrez 3818 days ago
Good point for "enchanced networking" instances. I didn't see OS specified in the article. AMZN linux would have SR-IOV driver by default. PV vs HVM might also have an impact.
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zbjornson 3818 days ago
Per the comment here [1] and the linked twitter convo, I'll retest S3 with Amazon Linux soon. These tests used Ubuntu 14.04 on all providers, and did use HVM. My understanding is that this will possibly increase the network throughput of the VM, but the benchmarks stayed below the VM's capacity (which was the reason I included the charts of VM throughput).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10846497

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hiyer 3818 days ago
Couple of other points:

1. Enhanced Networking (SRIOV) only works in a VPC and not in EC2-Classic.

2. I think the 4x instances don't support 10Gb ethernet. If that is the case, it would also be instructive to test the 8x instances on S3.

For some very application (Hadoop) specific tests of Enhanced Networking, please take a look at https://www.qubole.com/blog/product/hadoop-enhanced-networki...

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