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Amazon Lightsail Micro, 2 TB transfer

Ohio

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 12, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
Skipped
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
3,092
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
    Ohio
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    1 GB
  • Storage
    40 GB SSD
  • Network
    Unknown
  • OS image
    ubuntu_24_04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 12, 2026, 14:14:00 UTC
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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.

Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

Test Result Runs Spread
Copy higher is better 10.9 GB/s 3 0.568%
Scale higher is better 12.7 GB/s 3 1.19%
Add higher is better 13.1 GB/s 3 1.29%
Triad higher is better 13.1 GB/s 3 1.43%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

TLS and crypto (OpenSSL)

Test Result Runs Spread
RSA 4096 signs higher is better 234/s 3 0.238%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 15,359/s 3 0.0188%
SHA-256 higher is better 258 MB/s 3 0.116%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 3.42 GB/s 3 0.0711%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 2.2 GB/s 3 0.0979%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Scheduler latency (schbench)

Test Result Runs Spread
Request latency, median lower is better 7.7 ms 3 0.12%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 257/s 3 0%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 14.4 ms 3 5.62%
Requests per second, average higher is better 256/s 3 0.182%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 6 MB/s (1,547 IOPS) 6 MB/s (1,545 IOPS) 12.1 MB/s (3,092 IOPS)
64K 64.5 MB/s (1,032 IOPS) 64.8 MB/s (1,037 IOPS) 129.4 MB/s (2,069 IOPS)
512K 62 MB/s (123 IOPS) 64.9 MB/s (129 IOPS) 126.9 MB/s (252 IOPS)
1M 61.3 MB/s (61 IOPS) 65.7 MB/s (65 IOPS) 127.1 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 1.51 Gbps 707 Mbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 865 Mbps 2.65 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 704 Mbps 1.05 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.08 Gbps 769 Mbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 2.35 Gbps 3.17 Gbps

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

Datastores

PostgreSQL

fsync speed (pg_test_fsync)

Method Operations per second Time per operation
One 8 kB write
open_datasync 1,059 0.944 ms
fdatasync 1,058 0.946 ms
fsync 349 2.86 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 352 2.84 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 533 1.88 ms
fdatasync 976 1.03 ms
fsync 334 3 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 174 5.74 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 342 2.92 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 176 5.69 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 86.5 11.6 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 44.5 22.5 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 22.2 45 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 349 2.87 ms
write, close, fsync 349 2.87 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 1,009,229 0.001 ms

pg_test_fsync against the Docker volume Postgres keeps its data on. fdatasync is Linux's default wal_sync_method.

pgbench at scale 10

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 671 1.43 ms 2.06 ms 2.39 ms 6.47 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,380 2.99 ms 6.26 ms 9.08 ms 13.1 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 2,943 7.92 ms 28.1 ms 49.1 ms 77 ms 0
Read only 1 17,351 0.054 ms 0.071 ms 0.096 ms 0.187 ms 0
Read only 8 36,244 0.19 ms 0.389 ms 0.51 ms 0.73 ms 0
Read only 32 34,722 0.63 ms 1.31 ms 1.85 ms 3.31 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.18 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

pgbench at scale 100

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 394 2.6 ms 3.08 ms 3.91 ms 9.02 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 1,001 5.88 ms 15.9 ms 20 ms 32.1 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 1,063 27.2 ms 49.9 ms 74.9 ms 247 ms 0
Read only 1 954 1.22 ms 1.49 ms 2.38 ms 5.4 ms 0
Read only 8 1,604 5.2 ms 9.91 ms 12 ms 15 ms 0
Read only 32 1,748 20 ms 31 ms 36.3 ms 293 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 49.6 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

MySQL

sysbench OLTP

Workload Threads Transactions/s Queries/s Median p95 p99 Errors
Read/write 1 130 2,603 7.17 ms 10.7 ms 16.4 ms 0
Read/write 8 474 9,481 13.5 ms 46.6 ms 70.5 ms 0
Read/write 32 675 13,493 46.6 ms 70.5 ms 89.2 ms 0
Read only 1 633 10,120 1.5 ms 2.18 ms 2.91 ms 0
Read only 8 1,192 19,071 6.79 ms 10.5 ms 11.9 ms 0
Read only 32 1,121 17,931 26.7 ms 57.9 ms 65.6 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 15.6 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 56,499 51,363 0.975 ms 2.69 ms 4.38 ms
1:1 set:get 55,836 27,917 0.975 ms 2.75 ms 4.38 ms

1,000,000 keys of 32 bytes. 64 connections over 2 threads, 60 s per ratio.

Web frameworks

Framework Fortunes req/s Single query req/s JSON req/s Fortunes p99 at 256 connections
Next.js nextjs 221 1,037 1,428 3.53 s
Express express-postgresjs 8,080 9,723 14,614 1.12 s
Fastify fastify-postgres 7,941 10,835 15,418 1.16 s
NestJS nestjs 1,056 1,954 8,249 799 ms
Nuxt nuxt 4,883 7,836 12,566 1.89 s
FastAPI fastapi 2,170 2,712 9,394 228 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,023 1,236 2,904 307 ms
Rails rails 1,245 1,741 6,233 322 ms
Laravel laravel 37.9 38 879 6.87 s
Symfony symfony 45 47.1 151 5.76 s

Peak requests per second across the 64 and 256 connection levels, measured with wrk. Each test has to pass the TechEmpower response checks first, or it's marked invalid.

WooCommerce

Page mix

Failed: k6 summary at 32 virtual users didn't parse: k6 recorded no requests for step category

Cart and checkout

Failed: k6 summary at 32 virtual users didn't parse: k6 recorded no requests for step checkout

Discourse

Signed in

Skipped: discourse-setup refuses boxes with less than 1 GB of memory, this one has 909 MB

Anonymous

Skipped: discourse-setup refuses boxes with less than 1 GB of memory, this one has 909 MB

Ghost

Readers

Failed: k6 summary at 4 virtual users didn't parse: k6 recorded no requests for step author

Staff in Ghost Admin

Failed: k6 summary at 4 virtual users didn't parse: k6 recorded no requests for step author

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 0.18 645 ms 955 ms 1.15 s 0%
Blog index 0.18 2.33 s 3.16 s 3.65 s 0%
Blog post 0.525 234 ms 400 ms 462 ms 0%
Bread page 0.525 238 ms 590 ms 799 ms 0%
Location page 0.18 235 ms 726 ms 790 ms 0%
Site search 0.18 396 ms 602 ms 628 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 0.135 2.96 s 4.27 s 4.5 s 0%
Blog index 0.18 12.4 s 15.1 s 15.5 s 0%
Blog post 0.421 960 ms 1.32 s 1.82 s 0%
Bread page 0.451 1.12 s 1.57 s 1.62 s 0%
Location page 0.18 997 ms 1.4 s 1.43 s 0%
Site search 0.135 1.43 s 2.58 s 2.88 s 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 0.0846 11.2 s 15.7 s 16.6 s 0%
Blog index 0.141 31 s 39.8 s 40.1 s 0%
Blog post 0.352 7.76 s 14.5 s 15.2 s 0%
Bread page 0.423 7.28 s 10.7 s 12.6 s 0%
Location page 0.155 6.48 s 10.1 s 11.9 s 0%
Site search 0.127 8.88 s 10.9 s 11.5 s 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.0584 805 ms 985 ms 1.01 s 0%
Page explorer 0.131 2.56 s 3.71 s 3.94 s 0%
Page editor 0.175 1.27 s 2.17 s 2.42 s 0%
Image library 0.0584 716 ms 6.93 s 7.79 s 0%
Admin page search 0.0584 286 ms 591 ms 630 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.0424 5.59 s 5.96 s 5.99 s 0%
Page explorer 0.0847 12.7 s 17.4 s 17.7 s 0%
Page editor 0.127 6.56 s 9.32 s 9.6 s 0%
Image library 0.0424 2.81 s 3.23 s 3.26 s 0%
Admin page search 0.0424 1.05 s 1.25 s 1.27 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 61 to 71 s per level, after a 23 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Wagtail ran the way bakerydemo ships it: uWSGI with 2 workers of 4 threads each, whatever the box, and Postgres and Redis on stock settings. Memory peaked with Wagtail at 298 MB, Postgres at 174 MB, and Redis at 24 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Shared vCPU 10.2% 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 8259CL 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
10.2% 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
Ohio
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 12, 2026, 14:14:33 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 12, 2026, 14:14:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 12, 2026, 14:14:25 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 12, 2026, 14:14:25 UTC
Completed
Oct 12, 2026, 16:01:32 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 12, 2026, 16:01:32 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.017
TestResultTime
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