DSM Accelerator [5.6] - February 26, 2026

1. Overview

This article provides an overview of performance statistics in the Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM) Accelerator 5.6 release.

DSM Accelerator Webservice version - 1.32

2. Fortanix Data Security Manager Accelerator Performance Statistics

2.1 Runtime Environment

NOTE
The following table lists the standard recommended runtime environment. You can choose a higher configuration for better performance.
DSM Accelerator was run in the runtime environment listed below for performance testing.

Item	Specification
Number of Cores	4
CPU	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2673 v4 @ 2.30GHz
RAM	2 GiB
VM Type	Standard D4ds v4 Azure VM
Docker Runtime Configuration	`sudo docker run -d --network host --memory=1g --memory-swap=2g --log-driver json-file --log-opt max-size=100m`

2.2 DSM Accelerator Webservice

NOTE
The performance numbers below are captured with a single node; if you need higher performance or throughput, then Fortanix recommends adding multiple nodes.

Key Types and Operations	Throughput (Operations/second on a 1-node cluster re-using a single TLS session)
AES 256: CBC Encryption/Decryption	20,577/20,649
AES 256: GCM Encryption/Decryption	22,165/21,984
AES 256: FPE Encryption/Decryption	9,665/9,608

2.3 Additional Modes

Key Types and Operations	Throughput (Operations/second on a 1-node cluster re-using a single TLS session)
AES 256: CBCNOPAD Encryption/Decryption	21,797/21,604
AES 256: CFB Encryption/Decryption	22,062/21,596
AES 256: CTR Encryption/Decryption	22,063/21,548
AES 256: OFB Encryption/Decryption	22,103/21,767
AES 256: CCM Encryption/Decryption	21,990/21,416