Amazon Lightsail Micro 2 vCPU / 1 GB, 2 TB transfer benchmarks
2 shared vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD
Performance by location
Every run of this planAverages over the last 90 days. Same plan, same provider, different datacenters.
| Location | Runs | GB7 single | GB7 multi | 4K IOPS | Price | Last tested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Frankfurt (eu-central-1) (eu-central-1)
Frankfurt, DE
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $7.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
Ireland (eu-west-1) (eu-west-1)
Dublin, IE
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $7.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
London (eu-west-2) (eu-west-2)
London, GB
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $7.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
Montreal (ca-central-1) (ca-central-1)
Montreal, QC, CA
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $7.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
Ohio (us-east-2) (us-east-2)
Columbus, OH, US
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $7.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
Oregon (us-west-2) (us-west-2)
Boardman, OR, US
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $7.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
Paris (eu-west-3) (eu-west-3)
Paris, FR
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $7.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
Seoul (ap-northeast-2) (ap-northeast-2)
Seoul, KR
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $7.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
Singapore (ap-southeast-1) (ap-southeast-1)
Singapore, SG
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $7.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
Stockholm (eu-north-1) (eu-north-1)
Stockholm, SE
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $7.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
Tokyo (ap-northeast-1) (ap-northeast-1)
Tokyo, JP
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $7.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
Virginia (us-east-1) (us-east-1)
Ashburn, VA, US
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $7.00/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.
Similar plans from other providers
| Provider | Plan | vCPU | RAM | Storage | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean | Basic AMD 1 vCPU / 1 GB | 1 shared vCPU | 1 GB | 25 GB NVMe | $7.00 |
| DigitalOcean | Basic Intel 1 vCPU / 1 GB | 1 shared vCPU | 1 GB | 25 GB NVMe | $7.00 |
| Hetzner | CAX11 2 vCPU / 4 GB | 2 shared vCPU | 4 GB | 40 GB NVMe | $6.99 |
| Cherry Servers | Cloud VPS 2 (Gen 2) | 1 shared vCPU | 2 GB | 40 GB SSD | $7.02 |
| HOSTKEY | Standard VPS 4 vCPU / 8 GB RAM / 120 GB NVMe | 4 shared vCPU | 8 GB | 120 GB NVMe | €6.57 EUR |
| Scaleway | DEV1-S | 2 shared vCPU | 2 GB | 20 GB SSD | €6.55 EUR |
| Hetzner | CX 23 2 vCPU / 4 GB | 2 shared vCPU | 4 GB | 40 GB NVMe | $6.49 |
| DigitalOcean | Basic 1 vCPU / 1 GB | 1 shared vCPU | 1 GB | 25 GB SSD | $6.00 |
Advertised specs
- Product line
- General Purpose
- Sold as
- VPS
- Plan identifier
- micro_3_0
- vCPU
- 2
- CPU kind
- Shared vCPU
- Architecture
- x86_64
- RAM
- 1 GB
- Storage
- 40 GB SSD
- Disk class
- Unknown
- Virtualization
- KVM
- Network port
- Unknown
- Transfer
- 2.05 TB
- Overage
- Unknown
- IPv4
- Included
- IPv6
- Included
- Port 25
- On request
- Status
- Active
Price history
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$0.0094 HourlySince Oct 3, 2026
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$7.00 MonthlySince 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