"The C1 server is a 4-cores ARMv7 CPU with 2GB of RAM and a 1 Gbit/s network card. It is designed for the cloud and horizontal scaling."

"How does a C1 server perform? A C1 server gives a constant CPUMark of 12K. This is equivalent to an AWS M3 medium instance. "

I find this surprising in both directions: Either that an AWS M3 medium instance is so slow or that ARM servers got so fast!

Edit: It seems that ARM CPUs got really fast: According to [1] an Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.20GHz gets a Passmark score of 12k.

[1]: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

I am 99% sure that's not the same benchmark. The cheapest way to break 12,000 CPUMarks is a $370 Intel Core i7-5820K (15MB of cache, 6 cores, 12 threads).

Perhaps they are using the Android benchmark. A score of 12,000 is about what a quad core ARMv7 phone gets.

http://www.androidbenchmark.net/cpumark_chart.html

Edit:

Compared with the cross-platform Geekbench3 a HTC One (ARMv7 4 core, 1.7-2.2Ghz, 12,000 Android CPUMarks) gets between 2,000 and 3,000 points[1], while a 5820K gets around 20,000 points[2].

[1]: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/search?q=HTC+One

[2]: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/search?q=Intel+Cor...

Ah that would explain it. That's a pretty misleading claim then. So I guess ARMs are still pretty slow and Amazon is not all that terrible after all performance-wise. That also makes more sense intuition-wise.

Just to give another data point closer to price an Atom N2800 (which kimsufi offers with ssd for the same monthly price) gets around 1100, so competitive but not world changingly so.

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/search?dir=desc&q=...

To bad they're older 32-bit ARMv7 cpus. Ant serious ARM computing needs to use aarch64 for any type of serious scaling and performance.

Glad to see they support Docker on them, that's one of the killer apps for ARM systems.