Amazon Lightsail Large 2 vCPU / 8 GB, 2.5 TB transfer benchmarks

2 shared vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD

Shared CPU

$44.00/mo

$0.059/hr

Performance by location

Averages over the last 90 days. Same plan, same provider, different datacenters.

Location	Runs	GB7 single	GB7 multi	4K IOPS	Price	Last tested
Sydney (ap-southeast-2) (ap-southeast-2) Sydney, NSW, AU	0	n/a	n/a	n/a	$44.00/mo	Not tested yet

A location is highlighted only when it leads the next best by 5 percent or more. Smaller gaps are normal run-to-run variance.

Network results are not compared here. iperf3 targets are third-party servers, so distance to each target dominates the number.

We have not benchmarked this plan yet. It shows up here after its first scheduled run.

Provider	Plan	vCPU	RAM	Storage	Monthly
Vultr	VX1 AMD 2 vCPU / 8 GB	2 shared vCPU	8 GB	1 GB	$43.80
Scaleway	BASIC3-X2C-8G	2 shared vCPU	8 GB		€43.23 EUR
LayerOne	gc.xlarge	8 shared vCPU	32 GB	500 GB NVMe	$45.00
Kamatera	2B 4GB 80GB	2 shared vCPU	4 GB	80 GB SSD	$45.00
Caasify	Linode 2 vCPU / 4 GB Madrid	2 shared vCPU	4 GB	80 GB SSD	€45.07 EUR
Cherry Servers	Storage VPS 6	1 shared vCPU	6 GB	2 TB HDD	$45.63
Cherry Servers	Cloud VPS 6	3 shared vCPU	6 GB	100 GB SSD	$45.63
DigitalOcean	Basic AMD 2 vCPU / 8 GB	2 shared vCPU	8 GB	100 GB NVMe	$42.00