Amazon Lightsail Nano 2 vCPU / 0.5 GB, 512 GB transfer benchmarks

2 shared vCPU, 0.5 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD

Shared CPU

$5.00/mo

$0.0067/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
Mumbai (ap-south-1) (ap-south-1) Mumbai, MH, IN	0	n/a	n/a	n/a	$5.00/mo	Not tested yet
Sao Paulo (sa-east-1) (sa-east-1) São Paulo, SP, BR	0	n/a	n/a	n/a	$5.00/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	Cloud Compute Regular Intel 1 vCPU / 1 GB	1 shared vCPU	1 GB	25 GB	$5.00
Linode	Nanode 1GB	1 shared vCPU	1 GB	25 GB SSD	$5.00
HOSTKEY	Basic VPS 4 vCPU / 6 GB RAM / 120 GB SSD	4 shared vCPU	6 GB	120 GB SSD	€5.14 EUR
HOSTKEY	Standard VPS 1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM / 40 GB NVMe	1 shared vCPU	1 GB	40 GB NVMe	€4.57 EUR
HOSTKEY	Standard VPS 2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM / 60 GB NVMe	2 shared vCPU	4 GB	60 GB NVMe	€5.43 EUR
Vultr	Cloud Compute High Frequency Intel 1 vCPU / 1 GB	1 shared vCPU	1 GB	32 GB	$6.00
DigitalOcean	Basic 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB	1 shared vCPU	0.5 GB	10 GB SSD	$4.00
DigitalOcean	Basic 1 vCPU / 1 GB	1 shared vCPU	1 GB	25 GB SSD	$6.00