Amazon EC2 Benchmarks

[pradador]

I've been experimenting with EC2 for HandBrake encodes and figured I'd post some benchmarks. Here's my results so far:

### Settings ###
Source: Big Buck Bunny 1920x1080 MP4
Verison: HandBrake r4278 x86_64
Preset: AppleTV 2 Preset
Command:

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HandBrakeCLI.r4278.x86_64 -i big_buck_bunny_1080p_surround.avi -o AppleTV2.m4v --preset="AppleTV 2"

### Results ###

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|---------------|---------|-------------|-----------|
| Instance Type |   FPS   |  Cost/Hour  |   FPS/$   |
|---------------|---------|-------------|-----------|
|  m1.xlarge    |  24.77  |    $0.68    |  131,135  |
|---------------|---------|-------------|-----------|
|  m2.4xlarge   |  58.60  |    $2.00    |  105,480  |
|---------------|---------|-------------|-----------|
|  c1.xlarge    |  40.25  |    $0.68    |  213,088  |
|---------------|---------|-------------|-----------|
|  cc1.4xlarge  |  61.37  |    $1.30    |  169,947  |
|---------------|---------|-------------|-----------|
|  cc2.8xlarge  |  69.66  |    $2.40    |  104,490  |
|---------------|---------|-------------|-----------|

[IrishPrince]

Did you perchance test the C1.Medium instance? It only costs 25% of the C1.XLarge instance. Anything better than 25% of the performance would make it a worthwhile image to use.
-IP