Amazon, Clear, Debian, Gentoo, Red Hat, SUSE & Ubuntu Performance On The EC2 Cloud Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 28 November 2017 at 10:29 AM EST. Page 1 of 5. 10 Comments. It's been a few months since last running a Linux distribution / operating system comparison on Amazon's EC2 public cloud, but given the ever-advancing state of Linux, here are some fresh benchmarks when te