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This blog participates in the evaluation of Alibaba Cloud ECS instance, here uses Ali's C5.large computing instance

This experience and suggestions on cloud server ECS product capabilities can help other users choose cloud services and use cloud server ECS to create application scenario evaluation

Firstly, test the hardware (CPU, memory, disk) of the instance, and compare it with AWS C5 and C5a instances of the same size, as you can see in "Catalogue 2 and 3" of this article.

Secondly, "use cloud server ECS to create application scenario evaluation, build cloud blogs, forums, home clouds, and Gitlab collaborative office based on Alibaba Cloud ECS c5. large adopts LAMP and LNMP architecture to build Wordpress scene, and LAMP builds Discuz! Forum scenario, installation of CasaOS home cloud private NAS scenario, installation of Jihu GitLab integrated DevOps platform scenario. I hope this article is helpful to you, and also allows you to purchase the server you need among many service providers.

This reading is expected to take 45 minutes.

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Article directory:

1. Instance console comparison
- 1. Alibaba Cloud
  - A. Custom purchase
  - B. Quick buy
- 2.AWS
2. Comparison of instance types
- 1. Introduction to Alibaba Cloud C5 instance family
- 2. Introduction to AWS EC2 C5.large and C5a.large
- 3. Model comparison summary
3. Compared with the same type of performance test
- 1. CPU test (GeekBench 5 tests the instance)
  - A. The CPU model of the test object collected in this test
  - B. Test command
  - c. Test results
  - D. CPU summary test comparison
- 2. Block storage performance test
  - 1.hdparm test hard disk performance
  - 2. Use the dd command to test the performance of the disk
  - 3. Fio tool test hard disk
- 3. Memory performance test
  - View memory information
  - Memory writing and reading test (Alibaba Cloud on the left-AWS on the right)
4. Service construction comparison test
- 1. Build WordPress personal blog based on LAMP architecture (CentOS 7)
- 2. Building WordPress personal blog based on LNMP architecture (CentOS 7)
- 3. Build LAMP architecture based on Aliux 3 system and deploy Wordpress personal blog
- 4. Build LNMP architecture based on Aliux 3 system and deploy Wordpress personal blog
- 5. Deploy Discuz forum based on LAMP architecture (CentOS 7)
- 6. Build CasaOS family cloud based on ubuntu
- 7. Based on Ubuntu 20.04 64, install the privatized deployment version Jihu GitLab
Summarize

1. Instance console comparison

2. Comparison of instance types

3. Compared with the same type of performance test

4. Service construction comparison test

1. Instance console comparison

1. Alibaba Cloud:

A. Custom purchase:

First, open Alibaba Cloud's ECS instance console, and you can clearly see the created instance in the overview panel

After clicking Create Instance, a new browser page will pop up, which defines two panel modules, Quick Purchase and Custom Purchase, which clearly show the user's payment mode, purchase region, availability zone, and instance specifications. , quantity, storage, etc., follow the process to confirm the order, a total of five steps

B. Quick Buy:

Compared with custom purchase, users can directly place an order on the quick purchase interface without jumping to other pages for additional settings

2.AWS：

Go to the EC2 console

After clicking Start Instance, you will enter the Create Instance page, where you need to configure the instance,
including: instance name, image, instance specification, security group, key, network, storage size, etc.

2. Comparison of instance types

#### Alibaba Cloud official recommendations for different application scenarios![](https://img-blog.csdnimg.cn/img_convert/e405cc7045aef17c5840ae39c2bef0d1.png)

1. Introduction to Alibaba Cloud C5 instance family, citing official documents

Computing instance type family c5
c5 has the following features:

calculate:
- The ratio of processor to memory is 1:2
- Processor: Intel ® Xeon ® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) or 8269CY (Cascade Lake) with a main frequency of 2.5 GHz, stable computing performance
  
  Note that instances of this specification family may be deployed on different server platforms. If your business requires instances to be deployed on the same server platform, it is recommended that you choose c6, c6e, or c7.
storage:
- I/O optimization example
- Support ESSD cloud disk, SSD cloud disk and high-efficiency cloud disk
  
  Note that the cloud disk performance upper limit of different instance type families is different, and a single instance of this type family supports up to 200,000 IOPS
network:
- Support IPv6
- Ultra-high network PPS sending and receiving packet capability
- The network performance of the instance corresponds to the computing specification (the higher the specification, the stronger the network performance)
Applicable scene:
- High network packet sending and receiving scenarios, such as video barrage, telecom service forwarding, etc.
- Web front-end server
- Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMO) Frontend
- Data Analysis, Batch Computing, Video Encoding
- The instance specifications and index data included in the high-performance scientific and engineering application c5 are shown in the following table

instance specification	vCPU	Memory	Network bandwidth (Gbit/s)	Network sending and receiving packet PPS	multiple queues	ENI	Single network card private IP
ecs.c5.large	2	4	1	300000	2	2	6

2. AWS EC2 C5.large and C5a.large instances, refer to AWS official documents to explain

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Amazon EC2 C5 instances are optimized for compute-intensive workloads and deliver cost-effective high performance at a lower price per compute ratio.

Features:

C5 instances offer processor options based on the size of the instance.
The new C5 and C5d 12xlarge, 24xlarge and Metal instance sizes feature custom 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Cascade Lake) with a sustained all-core turbo frequency of 3.6GHz and single-core turbo frequencies up to 3.9GHz.
Additional C5 instance sizes will launch on 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Cascade Lake) or 1st Gen Intel Xeon Platinum 8000 series (Skylake-SP) processors with sustained all-core Turbo frequencies up to 3.4GHz, and Up to 3.5GHz single-core Turbo frequency.
New larger 24xlarge instance size offers 96 vCPUs, 192 GiB memory and optional 3.6TB NVMe-based local SSD
Requires HVM AMI with ENA and NVMe drivers
The Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) provides C5 instances with up to 25Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 19Gbps of Amazon EBS dedicated bandwidth.
Powered by the AWS Nitro system (a combination of purpose-built hardware and a lightweight hypervisor)

model	vCPU	Memory	Instance storage (GB)	Network Bandwidth (Gbps)	EBS Bandwidth (Mbps)
ecs.c5.large	2	4	EBS only	up to 10	Up to 4750

Amazon EC2 C5a instances offer best-in-class x86 price/performance for a wide range of compute-intensive workloads.
Features:

2nd generation AMD EPYC 7002 series processors running up to 3.3GHz
Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) provides C5a instances with up to 20 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 9.5 Gbps of Amazon EBS dedicated bandwidth
Powered by the AWS Nitro system (a combination of purpose-built hardware and a lightweight hypervisor)

model	vCPU	Memory	Instance storage (GB)	Network Bandwidth (Gbps)	EBS Bandwidth (Mbps)
c5a.large	2	4	EBS only	up to 10	up to 3170

3. Model comparison summary:

	Aliyun ecs.c5.large high-efficiency cloud disk version	AWS C5.large EBS SSD gp2	AWS C5a.large EBS SSD gp2
CPU model	2.5 GHz Intel ® Xeon ® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) or 8269CY (Cascade Lake)	2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Cascade Lake) or 1st Generation Intel Xeon Platinum 8000 Series (Skylake-SP) Processor	2nd Generation AMD EPYC 7002
vCPU	2	2	2
Memory	4G	4G	4G
Network bandwidth (Gbit/s)	1Gbps	Up to 10Gbps	Up to 10Gbps
Block Storage Bandwidth	High-efficiency cloud disk up to 140Mbps	Up to 4750Mbps	Up to 3170Mbps

3. Compared with the same type of performance test

## 1. CPU test **GeekBench 5 tests the instance**

Here, Alibaba Cloud Aliyun ecs.c5.large high-efficiency cloud disk version is used to compare AWS EC2 C5.large and C5a.large. In order to ensure that C5 uses Intel chips, 2 sets of C5.large and 1 set of C5a.large are used here. carry out testing

A. The CPU models of the test objects collected in this test are as follows

example	CPU model
Aliyun ecs.c5.large	Intel Xeon Platinum 8163 @ 2.50 GHz 1 Processor, 1 Core, 2 Threads
Amazon EC2 c5.large	Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL @ 3.64 GHz 1 Processor, 1 Core, 2 Threads
Amazon EC2 c5.large	Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M @ 3.45 GHz 1 Processor, 1 Core, 2 Threads
Amazon EC2 c5a.large	AMD EPYC 7R32 @ 3.31 GHz 1 Processor, 1 Core, 2 Threads

B. The test command is as follows:

sudo wget https://cdn.geekbench.com/Geekbench-5.4.1-Linux.tar.gz
tar xf Geekbench-5.4.1-Linux.tar.gz
cd Geekbench-5.4.1-Linux
./geekbench5

C. The test results are as follows

①.Aliyun ecs.c5.large

Intel Xeon Platinum 8163 @ 2.50 GHz 1 Processor, 1 Core, 2 Threads

Geekbench5 detection system information
single core test project
Multi-core test project
Link to Test Results
Test result graph

②.Amazon EC2 c5.large

Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL @ 3.64 GHz 1 Processor, 1 Core, 2 Threads

Geekbench5 detection system information
single core test project
Multi-core test project
Link to Test Results
Test result graph

③.Amazon EC2 c5.large

Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M @ 3.45 GHz 1 Processor, 1 Core, 2 Threads

Geekbench5 detection system information
single core test project
Multi-core test project
Link to Test Results
Test result graph

④.Amazon EC2 c5a.large

AMD EPYC 7R32 @ 3.31 GHz 1 Processor, 1 Core, 2 Threads

Geekbench5 detection system information
single core test project
Multi-core test project
Link to Test Results
Test result graph

D. CPU summary test comparison

Comparison test link:

8163 VS 8275CL
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/14590617?baseline=14590554

8163 VS 8124M
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/14590617?baseline=14591215

Intel Xeon Platinum 8163 @ 2.50 GHz VS AMD EPYC 7R32 @ 3.31 GHz
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/14590617?baseline=14594576

Aliyun ecs.c5.large
Intel Xeon Platinum 8163 @ 2.50 GHz 1 Processor, 1 Core, 2 Threads 对比 AWS EC2 C5.Large Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL @ 3.64 GHz 1 Processor, 1 Core, 2 Threads
geekbench5-AWS-EC2-C5.large vs Aliyun-ECS-C5.large.png

Aliyun ecs.c5.large
Intel Xeon Platinum 8163 @ 2.50 GHz 1 Processor, 1 Core, 2 Threads 对比 Amazon EC2 c5.large Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M @ 3.45 GHz 1 Processor, 1 Core, 2 Threads
AWS-ec2-c5.large-8124M vs Aliyun-ECS-C5.large-8163.png

Aliyun ecs.c5.large
Intel Xeon Platinum 8163 @ 2.50 GHz 1 Processor, 1 Core, 2 Threads 对比 Amazon EC2 c5a.large AMD EPYC 7R32 @ 3.31 GHz 1 Processor, 1 Core, 2 Threads
Aliyun-ecs-c5.large vs AWS-EC2-C5a.large EPYC 7R32 @ 3.31.png

2. Block storage performance test

1.hdparm test hard disk performance


显示硬盘的相关信息
# hdparm /dev/vda
评估硬盘的读取效率
# hdparm -t /dev/vda
测试硬盘缓存的读取速度
# hdparm -T /dev/vda
直接测试硬盘的读性能
# hdparm -tT --direct /dev/vda
查看DMA情况
# hdparm -cdt /dev/vda

2. Use the dd command to test the performance of the disk

dd test script

[root@sh-host ~]# cat disk.sh 
echo "test 10G"
time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=./ddfile bs=1M count=10240 oflag=direct && sync";
rm ./ddfile;

echo "test 1G/1M"
time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=./ddfile bs=1M count=1024 oflag=direct && sync";
rm ./ddfile;

echo "test 1G/512K"
time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=./ddfile bs=512k count=2048 oflag=direct && sync";
rm ./ddfile;

echo "test 1G/256K"
time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=./ddfile bs=256k count=4096 oflag=direct && sync";
rm ./ddfile;

echo "test 1G/256K"
time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=./ddfile bs=256k count=8192 oflag=direct && sync";
rm ./ddfile;

echo "test 1G/4K"
time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=./ddfile bs=4k count=262144 oflag=direct && sync";
rm ./ddfile;

dd test results are as follows

AWS EBS SSD gp2 20G


[root@ip-172-31-30-56 ~]# bash disk.sh 
test 10G
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 78.9134 s, 136 MB/s

real    1m18.923s
user    0m0.005s
sys     0m1.313s
test 1G/1M
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.98374 s, 134 MB/s

real    0m7.990s
user    0m0.007s
sys     0m0.131s
test 1G/512K
2048+0 records in
2048+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.98495 s, 134 MB/s

real    0m7.991s
user    0m0.006s
sys     0m0.149s
test 1G/256K
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.98434 s, 134 MB/s

real    0m7.987s
user    0m0.002s
sys     0m0.159s
test 1G/256K
8192+0 records in
8192+0 records out
2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 15.9784 s, 134 MB/s

real    0m15.981s
user    0m0.011s
sys     0m0.303s
test 1G/4K
262144+0 records in
262144+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 127.651 s, 8.4 MB/s

real    2m7.655s
user    0m0.286s
sys     0m2.382s
[root@ip-172-31-30-56 ~]#

Aliyun EBS high-efficiency cloud disk 20G

[root@sh-host ~]# bash disk.sh 
test 10G
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 99.4206 s, 108 MB/s

real    1m39.440s
user    0m0.028s
sys     0m1.916s
test 1G/1M
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.9211 s, 108 MB/s

real    0m9.942s
user    0m0.003s
sys     0m0.206s
test 1G/512K
2048+0 records in
2048+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.93499 s, 108 MB/s

real    0m9.955s
user    0m0.003s
sys     0m0.221s
test 1G/256K
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.90859 s, 108 MB/s

real    0m9.927s
user    0m0.006s
sys     0m0.256s
test 1G/256K
8192+0 records in
8192+0 records out
2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 19.87 s, 108 MB/s

real    0m19.889s
user    0m0.014s
sys     0m0.496s
test 1G/4K
262144+0 records in
262144+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 132.547 s, 8.1 MB/s

real    2m12.565s
user    0m0.284s
sys     0m6.281s
[root@sh-host ~]#

3. Fio tool test hard disk

The official document test specifies the test tool - FIO
Check out the documents provided by the two cloud service providers here, and both clearly use the fio tool for the benchmark test of the cloud disk

Steps

1. Remotely connect to the ECS instance
and use SecureCRT to connect

2. Query whether the block storage device is 4KiB aligned

sudo fdisk -lu

In the returned result, if the Start value is divisible by 8, it is 4KiB aligned. Otherwise, please complete the 4KiB alignment before continuing the performance test.

3. Run the following commands in sequence to install libaio and FIO.

sudo yum install libaio -y
sudo yum install libaio-devel -y
sudo yum install fio -y

4. Partition and format the hard disk.
Disk partition example, take Amazon as an example

Use fdisk to view mounted disks
fdisk partitions a disk
fdisl -l View partition results
Format the disk with mkfs
Use lsblk to view

Cloud disk performance test command

Note In this example, the name of the device used is /dev/your_device , please replace it according to your actual situation. For example, the cloud disk to be tested is /dev/vdb , then replace /dev/your_device in the following example command with /dev/vdb

Random write IOPS:

fio -direct=1 -iodepth=128 -rw=randwrite -ioengine=libaio -bs=4k -size=1G -numjobs=1 -runtime=1000 -group_reporting -filename=/dev/your_device -name=Rand_Write_Testing

Alibaba Cloud Efficient Cloud Disk
Aliyun ECS

Amazon AWS SSD GP2

Random read IOPS:

fio -direct=1 -iodepth=128 -rw=randread -ioengine=libaio -bs=4k -size=1G -numjobs=1 -runtime=1000 -group_reporting -filename=/dev/your_device -name=Rand_Read_Testing

Alibaba Cloud High Efficiency Cloud Disk
Ali Cloud
Amazon AWS SSD GP2
aws gp2