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Amazon Lightsail Micro, 2 TB transfer

Ireland

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 6, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
Skipped
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
3,076
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
    Ireland
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    1 GB
  • Storage
    40 GB SSD
  • Network
    Unknown
  • OS image
    ubuntu_24_04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 6, 2026, 17:04:00 UTC

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.

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 6 MB/s (1,539 IOPS) 6 MB/s (1,537 IOPS) 12 MB/s (3,076 IOPS)
64K 64.5 MB/s (1,031 IOPS) 64.9 MB/s (1,037 IOPS) 129.3 MB/s (2,068 IOPS)
512K 61.9 MB/s (123 IOPS) 64.9 MB/s (129 IOPS) 126.9 MB/s (252 IOPS)
1M 61.2 MB/s (61 IOPS) 65.6 MB/s (65 IOPS) 126.8 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 3.38 Gbps 2.79 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 3.67 Gbps 4.44 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 1.1 Gbps 969 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.13 Gbps 468 Mbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 2.08 Gbps 2.71 Gbps

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

Advertised vs. measured

Spec Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Shared vCPU 24.1% 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
24.1% 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
Ireland
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, 17:04:33 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 6, 2026, 17:04:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 6, 2026, 17:04:25 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 6, 2026, 17:04:25 UTC
Completed
Oct 6, 2026, 17:08:58 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 6, 2026, 17:08:58 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.0094
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