EC2 boot time benchmarking

Last week I quietly released ec2-boot-bench, a tool for benchmarking EC2 instance boot times. This tool is BSD licensed, and should compile and run on any POSIX system with OpenSSL or LibreSSL installed. Usage is simple — give it AWS keys and tell it what to benchmark: usage: ec2-boot-bench --keys <keyfile> --region <name> --ami <AMI Id> --itype <instance type> [--subnet <subnet Id>] [--user-data <file>] and it outputs four values — how long the RunInstances API call took, how long it to...

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