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JoshTriplett on Aug 17, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: EC2 Boot Time Benchmarking

I've tested both EFI and BIOS boots on EC2, and they have about the same overhead.

And I've tested AMIs that are no bigger than a Linux kernel and a single static binary; times are still on par with what's listed here. Still takes 7-8 seconds before the first user-controlled instruction gets to run.

nijave on Aug 19, 2021 [–]

Gotcha, thanks for the info

That's a bit disappointing but I guess AWS has spent a lot of time optimizing Lambda vs EC2

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