http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtualization-2017.html http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtuali... Brendan Gregg has

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtualization-2017.html http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtuali... Brendan Gregg has written here and elsewhere about the performance of VMs on EC2. Worth reading if you're interested in figuring out how close it is (or isn't).