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Amazon Lightsail Compute Optimized Large 2 vCPU / 4 GB, 5 TB transfer benchmarks

2 dedicated vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD

$42.00/mo
$0.057/hr
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Performance by location

Every run of this plan

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

Location Runs GB7 single GB7 multi 4K IOPS Price Last tested
Frankfurt (eu-central-1) (eu-central-1)
Frankfurt, DE
0 n/a n/a n/a $42.00/mo Not tested yet
Ireland (eu-west-1) (eu-west-1)
Dublin, IE
0 n/a n/a n/a $42.00/mo Not tested yet
London (eu-west-2) (eu-west-2)
London, GB
0 n/a n/a n/a $42.00/mo Not tested yet
Montreal (ca-central-1) (ca-central-1)
Montreal, QC, CA
0 n/a n/a n/a $42.00/mo Not tested yet
Ohio (us-east-2) (us-east-2)
Columbus, OH, US
0 n/a n/a n/a $42.00/mo Not tested yet
Oregon (us-west-2) (us-west-2)
Boardman, OR, US
0 n/a n/a n/a $42.00/mo Not tested yet
Paris (eu-west-3) (eu-west-3)
Paris, FR
0 n/a n/a n/a $42.00/mo Not tested yet
Seoul (ap-northeast-2) (ap-northeast-2)
Seoul, KR
0 n/a n/a n/a $42.00/mo Not tested yet
Singapore (ap-southeast-1) (ap-southeast-1)
Singapore, SG
0 n/a n/a n/a $42.00/mo Not tested yet
Stockholm (eu-north-1) (eu-north-1)
Stockholm, SE
0 n/a n/a n/a $42.00/mo Not tested yet
Tokyo (ap-northeast-1) (ap-northeast-1)
Tokyo, JP
0 n/a n/a n/a $42.00/mo Not tested yet
Virginia (us-east-1) (us-east-1)
Ashburn, VA, US
0 n/a n/a n/a $42.00/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.

Benchmark history

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

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Advertised specs

Product line
Compute Optimized
Sold as
VPS
Plan identifier
c_large_1_0
vCPU
2
CPU kind
Dedicated core
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
4 GB
Storage
160 GB SSD
Disk class
Unknown
Virtualization
KVM
Network port
Unknown
Transfer
5.12 TB
Overage
Unknown
IPv4
Included
IPv6
Included
Port 25
On request
Status
Active

Price history

  • $0.057 Hourly
    Since Oct 3, 2026
  • $42.00 Monthly
    Since Oct 3, 2026

Available in

  • Frankfurt (eu-central-1) (eu-central-1) Frankfurt, DE
  • Ireland (eu-west-1) (eu-west-1) Dublin, IE
  • London (eu-west-2) (eu-west-2) London, GB
  • Montreal (ca-central-1) (ca-central-1) Montreal, QC, CA
  • Ohio (us-east-2) (us-east-2) Columbus, OH, US
  • Oregon (us-west-2) (us-west-2) Boardman, OR, US
  • Paris (eu-west-3) (eu-west-3) Paris, FR
  • Seoul (ap-northeast-2) (ap-northeast-2) Seoul, KR
  • Singapore (ap-southeast-1) (ap-southeast-1) Singapore, SG
  • Stockholm (eu-north-1) (eu-north-1) Stockholm, SE
  • Tokyo (ap-northeast-1) (ap-northeast-1) Tokyo, JP
  • Virginia (us-east-1) (us-east-1) Ashburn, VA, US