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m6a.large

EC2 Instance

About the

m6a.large

instance

AMD-based general-purpose instance with 2 vCPUs and 8 GiB memory. Powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz.

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3 Yr Reserved

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Spot Pricing Details for

m6a.large

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Frequency of interruption represents the rate at which Spot has reclaimed capacity during the trailing month. They are in ranges of < 5%, 5-10%, 10-15%, 15-20% and >20%.

Last Updated On: December 17, 2024

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Benchmark Test Results for

m6a.large

CPU Encryption Speed Benchmarks

Cloud Mercato tested CPU performance using a range of encryption speed tests:

Encryption Algorithm	Speed (1024 Block Size, 3 threads)
AES-128 CBC	313.8MB
AES-256 CBC	252.5MB
MD5	1.2GB
SHA256	2.9GB
SHA512	811.2MB

I/O Performance

Cloud Mercato's tested the I/O performance of this instance using a 100GB General Purpose SSD. Below are the results:

	Read	Write
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I/O rate testing is conducted with local and block storages attached to the instance. Cloud Mercato uses the well-known open-source tool FIO. To express IOPS the following parametersare used: 4K block, random access, no filesystem (except for write access with root volume and avoidance of cache and buffer.

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m6a.large