# Amazon Lightsail Micro, 2 TB transfer

[Frankfurt](https://rackcensus.com/locations/frankfurt-vps-benchmarks "Every provider in Frankfurt")

Benchmark complete

Finished Oct 8, 2026

Geekbench 7 single-core

Skipped

Geekbench 7 multi-core

Skipped

Disk 4K IOPS

3,098

fio random read and write, 50/50

Median here: 3,095 over 3 runs in 90 days

Monthly price at test time

$7.00

Same price today

## Server

[Amazon Lightsail](https://rackcensus.com/vps-providers/lightsail-benchmarks)[Micro, 2 TB transfer](https://rackcensus.com/plans/k4spwg-lightsail-micro-2-tb-transfer-benchmarks?location=eu-central-1)

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Provider

Amazon Lightsail

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Plan

Micro, 2 TB transfer

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Location

Frankfurt

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vCPU

2

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RAM

1 GB

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Storage

40 GB SSD

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Network

Unknown

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OS image

ubuntu\_24\_04

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Trigger

Scheduled

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Queued at

Oct 8, 2026, 11:06:00 UTC

[Visit Amazon Lightsail](https://rackcensus.com/go/lightsail)

## Latest runs of this plan

- [Oregon Oct 8, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/is0cuo-lightsail-micro-2-tb-transfer-us-west-2-benchmark)Skipped
- [Virginia Oct 8, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/o2v9uf-lightsail-micro-2-tb-transfer-us-east-1-benchmark)Skipped
- [Ireland Oct 7, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/gvuau6-lightsail-micro-2-tb-transfer-eu-west-1-benchmark)Skipped
- [Frankfurt Oct 7, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/yn6387-lightsail-micro-2-tb-transfer-eu-central-1-benchmark)Skipped
- [Oregon Oct 7, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/4asywr-lightsail-micro-2-tb-transfer-us-west-2-benchmark)Skipped

[Full history of this plan](https://rackcensus.com/plans/k4spwg-lightsail-micro-2-tb-transfer-benchmarks/history)

## 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 | 11.1 GB/s | 3 | 1.88% |
| Scale higher is better | 12.4 GB/s | 3 | 0.918% |
| Add higher is better | 16.2 GB/s | 3 | 33.5% |
| Triad higher is better | 16.3 GB/s | 3 | 34.6% |

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 | 233/s | 3 | 0.559% |
| RSA 4096 verifies higher is better | 15,348/s | 3 | 0.196% |
| SHA-256 higher is better | 258 MB/s | 3 | 0.0438% |
| AES-256-GCM higher is better | 3.41 GB/s | 3 | 0.086% |
| ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better | 2.2 GB/s | 3 | 0.097% |

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 | 7.77 ms | 3 | 0.206% |
| Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better | 253/s | 3 | 0.228% |
| Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better | 46 ms | 3 | 56.8% |
| Requests per second, average higher is better | 242/s | 3 | 3.38% |

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

## Disk

| Block size | Read | Write | Total |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 4K | 6.1 MB/s (1,550 IOPS) | 6 MB/s (1,548 IOPS) | 12.1 MB/s (3,098 IOPS) |
| 64K | 64.5 MB/s (1,031 IOPS) | 64.9 MB/s (1,038 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 | 61.4 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 | 3.33 Gbps | 2.93 Gbps |
| Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) | IPv4 | 4.28 Gbps | 4.75 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) | IPv4 | 1.17 Gbps | 1.49 Gbps |
| Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | IPv4 | 1.13 Gbps | 548 Mbps |
| Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) | IPv4 | 1.8 Gbps | 2.77 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 | 1,262 | 0.792 ms |
| fdatasync | 1,045 | 0.957 ms |
| fsync | 338 | 2.96 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 338 | 2.96 ms |
| Two 8 kB writes |
| --- |
| open\_datasync | 522 | 1.91 ms |
| fdatasync | 961 | 1.04 ms |
| fsync | 332 | 3.01 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 171 | 5.84 ms |
| open\_sync at different write sizes |
| --- |
| 1 \* 16kB open\_sync write | 202 | 4.94 ms |
| 2 \* 8kB open\_sync writes | 119 | 8.42 ms |
| 4 \* 4kB open\_sync writes | 83.4 | 12 ms |
| 8 \* 2kB open\_sync writes | 43 | 23.2 ms |
| 16 \* 1kB open\_sync writes | 21.6 | 46.4 ms |
| fsync on a non-write descriptor |
| --- |
| write, fsync, close | 336 | 2.97 ms |
| write, close, fsync | 334 | 2.99 ms |
| Non-synced 8 kB writes |
| --- |
| write | 1,036,483 | 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 | 570 | 1.61 ms | 2.41 ms | 4.02 ms | 11.1 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 2,133 | 3.17 ms | 7.18 ms | 11.5 ms | 31.4 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 2,621 | 8.84 ms | 32 ms | 55.1 ms | 107 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 11,933 | 0.072 ms | 0.105 ms | 0.207 ms | 0.923 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 36,221 | 0.19 ms | 0.39 ms | 0.524 ms | 1.22 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 28,416 | 0.745 ms | 1.8 ms | 3.07 ms | 5.28 ms | 0 |

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.5 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 | 322 | 2.93 ms | 4.72 ms | 12.1 ms | 38.4 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 985 | 6.06 ms | 15.8 ms | 21.1 ms | 40.1 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 1,034 | 26.5 ms | 50.2 ms | 81.6 ms | 303 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 800 | 1.29 ms | 1.98 ms | 4.57 ms | 10.3 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 1,609 | 5.04 ms | 10 ms | 12.4 ms | 19.5 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 1,727 | 19.7 ms | 29.6 ms | 35 ms | 441 ms | 0 |

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 49.5 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 | 112 | 2,239 | 7.17 ms | 19 ms | 38.9 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 8 | 428 | 8,563 | 14.5 ms | 48.3 ms | 80 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 32 | 611 | 12,212 | 50.1 ms | 83 ms | 113 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 402 | 6,437 | 2.11 ms | 3.96 ms | 7.57 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 1,110 | 17,755 | 7.17 ms | 10.7 ms | 12.5 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 1,055 | 16,875 | 29.2 ms | 53.9 ms | 66.8 ms | 0 |

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 15.5 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

### Redis

#### memtier

| Mix | Operations/s | Hits/s | Median | p99 | p99.9 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1:10 set:get | 46,810 | 42,554 | 0.815 ms | 4.22 ms | 20.7 ms |
| 1:1 set:get | 47,039 | 23,519 | 0.823 ms | 4 ms | 13.1 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 | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Express | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Fastify | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| NestJS | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Nuxt | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| FastAPI | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Django | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Rails | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Laravel | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Symfony | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |

### 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

## Advertised vs. measured

| Spec | Advertised | Measured |
| --- | --- | --- |
| vCPU | 2 | 2 |
| CPU | Shared vCPU | 27.6% 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:** 27.6% 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:** Frankfurt

**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 8, 2026, 11:07:40 UTC

**Parser version:** 5

## Run timeline

**Queued:** Oct 8, 2026, 11:06:00 UTC

**Server created:** Oct 8, 2026, 11:06:27 UTC

**First update from the server:** Oct 8, 2026, 11:06:27 UTC

**Completed:** Oct 8, 2026, 12:31:57 UTC

**Server deleted:** Oct 8, 2026, 12:31:57 UTC

**Cost of this run:** $0.013

Tests 33 of 35 done Live output 703 lines

Setup 2 cores, 909.5 MiB RAM 4 of 4Done

Disk (fio) 12.7 MB/s at 4k, 133 MB/s at 1m 5 of 5Done

Network, IPv4 (iperf3) Median 1.80 Gbit/s send, 2.77 Gbit/s receive, 1 retried 5 of 5Done

Phoronix (memory, TLS, scheduler) 3 of 3Done

Datastores 5 of 5Done

Web frameworks 2 failed 10 of 12Some failed

TestResultTimevs last run

Next.js fortune 256c 100 req/s rps, fortune 256c 3m 10s

Express fortune 256c 7,138 req/s rps, fortune 256c 2m 54s

Fastify fortune 256c 5,218 req/s rps, fortune 256c 2m 52s

NestJS fortune 256c 445 req/s rps, fortune 256c 3m 10s

Nuxt fortune 256c 4,354 req/s rps, fortune 256c 2m 53s

FastAPI fortune 256c 2,090 req/s rps, fortune 256c 3m 14s

Django fortune 256c 981 req/s rps, fortune 256c 3m 19s

Rails fortune 256c 119 req/s rps, fortune 256c 3m 53s

Laravel fortune 256c 33.5 req/s rps, fortune 256c 5m 59s

Symfony fortune 256c 36.9 req/s rps, fortune 256c 5m 34s

WooCommerce page mix 32 vus Stopped k6 summary at 32 virtual users didn't parse: k6 recorded no requests for step category 7m 33s

WooCommerce cart flow 32 vus Stopped k6 summary at 32 virtual users didn't parse: k6 recorded no requests for step checkout 3m 58s

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