# Amazon Lightsail Micro, 2 TB transfer

[Virginia](https://rackcensus.com/locations/ashburn-vps-benchmarks "Every provider in Ashburn")

Benchmark complete

Finished Oct 8, 2026

Geekbench 7 single-core

Skipped

Geekbench 7 multi-core

Skipped

Disk 4K IOPS

3,089

fio random read and write, 50/50

Median here: 3,094 over 2 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=us-east-1)

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Provider

Amazon Lightsail

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Plan

Micro, 2 TB transfer

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Location

Virginia

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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 7, 2026, 23:04:00 UTC

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

## Latest runs of this plan

- [Frankfurt Oct 8, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/jxqotk-lightsail-micro-2-tb-transfer-eu-central-1-benchmark)Skipped
- [Oregon Oct 8, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/is0cuo-lightsail-micro-2-tb-transfer-us-west-2-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 | 11.3 GB/s | 3 | 5.76% |
| Scale higher is better | 12.7 GB/s | 3 | 0.933% |
| Add higher is better | 13 GB/s | 3 | 0.675% |
| Triad higher is better | 13.1 GB/s | 3 | 0.551% |

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 | 0.745% |
| RSA 4096 verifies higher is better | 14,970/s | 3 | 4.35% |
| SHA-256 higher is better | 258 MB/s | 3 | 0.25% |
| AES-256-GCM higher is better | 3.42 GB/s | 3 | 0.0343% |
| ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better | 2.21 GB/s | 3 | 0.0608% |

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 | 7.73 ms | 3 | 0.12% |
| Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better | 256/s | 3 | 0.226% |
| Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better | 36.3 ms | 3 | 61.7% |
| Requests per second, average higher is better | 249/s | 3 | 2.23% |

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 (1,545 IOPS) | 6 MB/s (1,544 IOPS) | 12.1 MB/s (3,089 IOPS) |
| 64K | 64.4 MB/s (1,030 IOPS) | 64.8 MB/s (1,036 IOPS) | 129.2 MB/s (2,066 IOPS) |
| 512K | 62.1 MB/s (124 IOPS) | 64.9 MB/s (129 IOPS) | 127 MB/s (253 IOPS) |
| 1M | 61.2 MB/s (61 IOPS) | 65.7 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 | 1.33 Gbps | 705 Mbps |
| Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) | IPv4 | 1.62 Gbps | 2.6 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) | IPv4 | 816 Mbps | 1.11 Gbps |
| Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | IPv4 | 2.23 Gbps | 954 Mbps |
| Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) | IPv4 | 4.5 Gbps | 3.34 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 | 1,277 | 0.783 ms |
| fdatasync | 1,050 | 0.953 ms |
| fsync | 347 | 2.88 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 349 | 2.86 ms |
| Two 8 kB writes |
| --- |
| open\_datasync | 521 | 1.92 ms |
| fdatasync | 891 | 1.12 ms |
| fsync | 336 | 2.98 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 174 | 5.76 ms |
| open\_sync at different write sizes |
| --- |
| 1 \* 16kB open\_sync write | 340 | 2.94 ms |
| 2 \* 8kB open\_sync writes | 175 | 5.72 ms |
| 4 \* 4kB open\_sync writes | 88.9 | 11.3 ms |
| 8 \* 2kB open\_sync writes | 44.3 | 22.5 ms |
| 16 \* 1kB open\_sync writes | 22.1 | 45.3 ms |
| fsync on a non-write descriptor |
| --- |
| write, fsync, close | 345 | 2.9 ms |
| write, close, fsync | 346 | 2.89 ms |
| Non-synced 8 kB writes |
| --- |
| write | 1,018,998 | 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 | 644 | 1.44 ms | 1.91 ms | 2.6 ms | 33.1 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 2,330 | 2.99 ms | 6.39 ms | 10.2 ms | 27.5 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 2,876 | 8.03 ms | 29.6 ms | 52.4 ms | 94.8 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 16,763 | 0.054 ms | 0.073 ms | 0.115 ms | 0.361 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 36,558 | 0.189 ms | 0.362 ms | 0.462 ms | 0.667 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 34,774 | 0.629 ms | 1.43 ms | 2.34 ms | 3.79 ms | 0 |

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 3.71 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 | 376 | 2.74 ms | 3.23 ms | 5.52 ms | 19.5 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 1,003 | 5.58 ms | 15.9 ms | 21.3 ms | 32.8 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 1,042 | 27.5 ms | 50.3 ms | 74.2 ms | 396 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 931 | 1.22 ms | 1.54 ms | 2.35 ms | 5.39 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 1,608 | 5.04 ms | 10 ms | 12.3 ms | 23.6 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 1,733 | 20 ms | 30.6 ms | 36 ms | 377 ms | 0 |

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 49.9 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 | 133 | 2,667 | 7.17 ms | 11 ms | 23.1 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 8 | 461 | 9,223 | 14.2 ms | 45 ms | 71.8 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 32 | 641 | 12,827 | 47.5 ms | 77.2 ms | 111 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 608 | 9,733 | 1.52 ms | 2.22 ms | 3.13 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 1,180 | 18,883 | 6.55 ms | 9.56 ms | 11.7 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 1,111 | 17,773 | 26.2 ms | 54.8 ms | 61.1 ms | 0 |

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 15.8 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

### Redis

#### memtier

| Mix | Operations/s | Hits/s | Median | p99 | p99.9 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1:10 set:get | 53,422 | 48,565 | 0.887 ms | 3.31 ms | 8.58 ms |
| 1:1 set:get | 49,935 | 24,967 | 0.799 ms | 3.62 ms | 10.3 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 | 14.2% 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:** 14.2% 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:** Virginia

**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 7, 2026, 23:04:35 UTC

**Parser version:** 5

## Run timeline

**Queued:** Oct 7, 2026, 23:04:00 UTC

**First update from the server:** Oct 7, 2026, 23:04:28 UTC

**Completed:** Oct 8, 2026, 00:27:08 UTC

**Server deleted:** Oct 8, 2026, 00:27:08 UTC

**Cost of this run:** $0.013

Tests 33 of 35 done Live output 704 lines

Setup 2 cores, 909.5 MiB RAM 4 of 4Done

Disk (fio) 12.6 MB/s at 4k, 133 MB/s at 1m 5 of 5Done

Network, IPv4 (iperf3) Median 1.62 Gbit/s send, 1.11 Gbit/s receive, 2 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 95.7 req/s rps, fortune 256c 3m 03s

Express fortune 256c 7,621 req/s rps, fortune 256c 2m 52s

Fastify fortune 256c 7,085 req/s rps, fortune 256c 2m 50s

NestJS fortune 256c 509 req/s rps, fortune 256c 3m 05s

Nuxt fortune 256c 4,464 req/s rps, fortune 256c 2m 49s

FastAPI fortune 256c 2,102 req/s rps, fortune 256c 3m 08s

Django fortune 256c 1,009 req/s rps, fortune 256c 3m 10s

Rails fortune 256c 144 req/s rps, fortune 256c 3m 26s

Laravel fortune 256c 36.2 req/s rps, fortune 256c 5m 35s

Symfony fortune 256c 44.7 req/s rps, fortune 256c 5m 13s

WooCommerce page mix 32 vus Stopped k6 summary at 32 virtual users didn't parse: k6 recorded no requests for step category 6m 42s

WooCommerce cart flow 32 vus Stopped k6 summary at 32 virtual users didn't parse: k6 recorded no requests for step checkout 4m 34s

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