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Amazon Lightsail Micro, 2 TB transfer

Virginia

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 7, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
Skipped
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
3,098
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$7.00
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Amazon Lightsail
  • Plan
    Micro, 2 TB transfer
  • Location
    Virginia
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    1 GB
  • Storage
    40 GB SSD
  • Network
    Unknown
  • OS image
    ubuntu_24_04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 6, 2026, 23:04:00 UTC
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CPU

Geekbench was skipped because this plan has less than 2 GB of RAM, which isn't enough for Geekbench 7 to run without swap.

Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

Test Result Runs Spread
Copy higher is better 11.1 GB/s 3 0.639%
Scale higher is better 12.9 GB/s 3 1.47%
Add higher is better 13.3 GB/s 3 1.37%
Triad higher is better 13.3 GB/s 3 1.27%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

TLS and crypto (OpenSSL)

Test Result Runs Spread
RSA 4096 signs higher is better 234/s 3 0.623%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 15,355/s 3 0.0453%
SHA-256 higher is better 258 MB/s 3 0.121%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 3.41 GB/s 3 0.146%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 2.2 GB/s 3 0.0465%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Scheduler latency (schbench)

Test Result Runs Spread
Request latency, median lower is better 7.74 ms 3 0%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 255/s 3 0%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 29.5 ms 3 85.8%
Requests per second, average higher is better 250/s 3 3.06%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 6.1 MB/s (1,550 IOPS) 6 MB/s (1,548 IOPS) 12.1 MB/s (3,098 IOPS)
64K 64.5 MB/s (1,031 IOPS) 64.9 MB/s (1,038 IOPS) 129.4 MB/s (2,069 IOPS)
512K 62 MB/s (124 IOPS) 65 MB/s (129 IOPS) 127 MB/s (253 IOPS)
1M 61.4 MB/s (61 IOPS) 65.8 MB/s (65 IOPS) 127.2 MB/s (126 IOPS)

fio random read and write, 50/50, run by YABS against the boot disk.

Network

IPv4 transfer speed

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Target Protocol Send Receive
Clouvider, London, UK (10G) IPv4 1.76 Gbps 1.43 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.91 Gbps 2.94 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 827 Mbps 1.09 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.69 Gbps 1.05 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 4.34 Gbps 3.22 Gbps

Public iperf3 servers vary in capacity and availability. Compare a target only with itself over time.

Datastores

PostgreSQL

fsync speed (pg_test_fsync)

Method Operations per second Time per operation
One 8 kB write
open_datasync 1,197 0.835 ms
fdatasync 1,055 0.947 ms
fsync 347 2.88 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 347 2.88 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 532 1.88 ms
fdatasync 976 1.03 ms
fsync 337 2.97 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 174 5.74 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 339 2.95 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 153 6.52 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 69.6 14.4 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 43.9 22.8 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 21.9 45.6 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 345 2.9 ms
write, close, fsync 345 2.9 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 1,062,098 0.001 ms

pg_test_fsync against the Docker volume Postgres keeps its data on. fdatasync is Linux's default wal_sync_method.

pgbench at scale 10

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 606 1.58 ms 2.19 ms 2.47 ms 13.5 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,255 3.04 ms 6.64 ms 10.9 ms 37.3 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 2,897 7.99 ms 29.8 ms 53.6 ms 93.1 ms 0
Read only 1 13,129 0.071 ms 0.095 ms 0.119 ms 0.356 ms 0
Read only 8 36,934 0.188 ms 0.355 ms 0.458 ms 0.753 ms 0
Read only 32 35,219 0.622 ms 1.35 ms 2.26 ms 3.6 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.18 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

pgbench at scale 100

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 371 2.77 ms 3.23 ms 3.84 ms 14.4 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 998 5.72 ms 15.9 ms 20.6 ms 30.7 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 1,057 27.6 ms 50.1 ms 72.8 ms 154 ms 0
Read only 1 902 1.29 ms 1.53 ms 3.75 ms 7.41 ms 0
Read only 8 1,612 5.08 ms 9.98 ms 13 ms 26.6 ms 0
Read only 32 1,731 20 ms 30.5 ms 37.4 ms 228 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 49.6 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

MySQL

sysbench OLTP

Workload Threads Transactions/s Queries/s Median p95 p99 Errors
Read/write 1 116 2,323 7.99 ms 12.3 ms 21.5 ms 0
Read/write 8 464 9,286 14.2 ms 41.9 ms 66.8 ms 0
Read/write 32 653 13,055 46.6 ms 74.5 ms 109 ms 0
Read only 1 472 7,551 1.96 ms 2.71 ms 3.62 ms 0
Read only 8 1,178 18,850 6.67 ms 9.73 ms 11.7 ms 0
Read only 32 1,133 18,122 25.7 ms 51.9 ms 61.1 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 15.8 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 52,277 47,524 0.775 ms 3.58 ms 11.3 ms
1:1 set:get 52,145 26,072 0.775 ms 3.47 ms 8.77 ms

1,000,000 keys of 32 bytes. 64 connections over 2 threads, 60 s per ratio.

Web frameworks

Framework Fortunes req/s Single query req/s JSON req/s Fortunes p99 at 256 connections
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WooCommerce

Page mix

Failed: woo-db stopped before it was ready: hysically writing the file full; Please wait ... 2026-10-07 0:20:05 0 [Note] InnoDB: File './ibtmp1' size is now 12.000MiB. 2026-10-07 0:20:05 0 [Note] InnoDB: log sequence number 45568; transaction id 14 2026-10-07 0:20:05 0 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled. 2026-10-07 0:20:05 0 [Note] Plugin 'wsrep-provider' is disabled. 2026-10-07 00:20:39+00:00 [ERROR] [Entrypoint]: Unable to start server.

Cart and checkout

Failed: k6 summary at 32 virtual users didn't parse: k6 recorded no requests for step checkout

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Shared vCPU 15.5% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 1 GB 910 MiB
Storage 40 GB SSD 38.7 GiB
Architecture x86_64 x86_64
Virtualization KVM AMAZON

Guests usually report slightly less RAM and disk than advertised because of kernel reservations and filesystem overhead.

Detected hardware

CPU model
Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8175M CPU @ 2.50GHz
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
2500 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
No
RAM reported
910 MiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
38.7 GiB
Virtualization reported
AMAZON
CPU steal
15.5% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Kernel
7.0.0-1012-aws
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
Micro, 2 TB transfer
Product line
General Purpose
Location
Virginia
vCPU
2 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
1 GB
Storage
40 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
Unknown
Transfer
2.05 TB
Port 25
On request
Monthly price at test time
$7.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.0094
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 6, 2026, 23:05:44 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 6, 2026, 23:04:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 6, 2026, 23:04:27 UTC
Completed
Oct 7, 2026, 00:24:46 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 7, 2026, 00:24:46 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.013
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