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Amazon Lightsail Micro, 2 TB transfer

Oregon

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 15, 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: 3,097 over 4 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
$7.00
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Amazon Lightsail
  • Plan
    Micro, 2 TB transfer
  • Location
    Oregon
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    1 GB
  • Storage
    40 GB SSD
  • Network
    Unknown
  • OS image
    ubuntu_24_04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 15, 2026, 05:05:00 UTC
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Latest runs of this plan

Full history of this plan

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 0.913%
Scale higher is better 13 GB/s 3 0.588%
Add higher is better 13.4 GB/s 3 0.851%
Triad higher is better 13.4 GB/s 3 1.02%

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 0.0988%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 15,387/s 3 0.0571%
SHA-256 higher is better 258 MB/s 3 0.275%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 3.42 GB/s 3 0.0607%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 2.21 GB/s 3 0.156%

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 0.208%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 257/s 3 0%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 20.2 ms 3 46.7%
Requests per second, average higher is better 254/s 3 1.35%

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 61.3 MB/s (61 IOPS) 65.8 MB/s (65 IOPS) 127 MB/s (126 IOPS)

fio random read and write, 50/50, run by YABS against the boot disk.

Network

iperf3 didn't report network results for this run.

Datastores

PostgreSQL

fsync speed (pg_test_fsync)

Method Operations per second Time per operation
One 8 kB write
open_datasync 1,093 0.915 ms
fdatasync 1,050 0.952 ms
fsync 348 2.87 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 349 2.87 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 529 1.89 ms
fdatasync 975 1.03 ms
fsync 339 2.95 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 175 5.73 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 339 2.95 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 175 5.71 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 88.6 11.3 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 38.6 25.9 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 22 45.5 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 345 2.9 ms
write, close, fsync 345 2.9 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 1,025,202 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) 1 648 1.45 ms 2.16 ms 2.71 ms 6.04 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,304 3.02 ms 6.76 ms 10.5 ms 20 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 2,912 8.01 ms 30.5 ms 52 ms 89.7 ms 0
Read only 1 16,632 0.054 ms 0.073 ms 0.126 ms 0.319 ms 0
Read only 8 36,552 0.186 ms 0.377 ms 0.485 ms 0.73 ms 0
Read only 32 34,743 0.613 ms 1.46 ms 2.38 ms 3.65 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.45 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) 1 383 2.7 ms 3.34 ms 5.31 ms 19.8 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 976 6.15 ms 16.1 ms 23 ms 37 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 1,063 27.2 ms 49.3 ms 71.2 ms 171 ms 0
Read only 1 919 1.24 ms 1.6 ms 2.78 ms 7.76 ms 0
Read only 8 1,608 5.05 ms 9.93 ms 11.9 ms 15.7 ms 0
Read only 32 1,725 20 ms 31 ms 36.1 ms 400 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 50.3 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 1 138 2,751 6.79 ms 11 ms 21.9 ms 0
Read/write 8 455 9,103 14 ms 46.6 ms 75.8 ms 0
Read/write 32 651 13,020 47.5 ms 75.8 ms 97.6 ms 0
Read only 1 618 9,896 1.52 ms 2.18 ms 3.08 ms 0
Read only 8 1,168 18,688 6.79 ms 10.5 ms 12.1 ms 0
Read only 32 1,101 17,621 26.7 ms 47.5 ms 56.8 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 53,115 48,286 0.775 ms 3.39 ms 6.66 ms
1:1 set:get 51,467 25,733 0.695 ms 3.47 ms 8.06 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 193 994 1,404 5.58 s
Express express-postgresjs 7,673 7,739 13,065 890 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 6,826 9,959 15,168 1.13 s
NestJS nestjs 534 702 4,754 1.4 s
Nuxt nuxt 4,982 7,077 11,865 1.86 s
FastAPI fastapi 2,132 2,696 9,612 232 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,087 1,280 2,890 1.1 s
Rails rails 1,219 1,627 6,439 237 ms
Laravel laravel 37.7 427 931 6.8 s
Symfony symfony 29.9 50.4 150 7.99 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.

Web apps

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 home

Staff in Ghost Admin

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

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 0.177 647 ms 970 ms 1.11 s 0%
Blog index 0.177 2.56 s 3 s 3.03 s 0%
Blog post 0.499 236 ms 396 ms 575 ms 0%
Bread page 0.515 239 ms 344 ms 390 ms 0%
Location page 0.177 237 ms 252 ms 255 ms 0%
Site search 0.161 523 ms 812 ms 922 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 0.139 3.91 s 4.41 s 4.47 s 0%
Blog index 0.17 11.4 s 16.1 s 16.5 s 0%
Blog post 0.401 926 ms 1.28 s 1.39 s 0%
Bread page 0.448 1.11 s 1.66 s 1.76 s 0%
Location page 0.17 1.25 s 1.4 s 1.43 s 0%
Site search 0.123 1.72 s 3.18 s 3.52 s 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 0.0845 11.2 s 15.9 s 16.4 s 0%
Blog index 0.183 29.5 s 34.4 s 35.3 s 0%
Blog post 0.38 7.99 s 8.93 s 8.96 s 0%
Bread page 0.395 7.12 s 11.3 s 12.6 s 0%
Location page 0.169 7.36 s 10.8 s 11.1 s 0%
Site search 0.127 8.96 s 10.7 s 11.2 s 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.0597 801 ms 1.04 s 1.07 s 0%
Page explorer 0.134 2.56 s 3.53 s 3.58 s 0%
Page editor 0.179 1.2 s 2.16 s 2.23 s 0%
Image library 0.0597 520 ms 6.51 s 7.36 s 0%
Admin page search 0.0597 399 ms 604 ms 633 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.045 2.16 s 4.9 s 5.14 s 0%
Page explorer 0.0901 14.2 s 15.8 s 15.8 s 0%
Page editor 0.135 6.39 s 8.62 s 8.96 s 0%
Image library 0.045 2.89 s 4.4 s 4.54 s 0%
Admin page search 0.045 1.36 s 2.08 s 2.14 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 62 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 290 MB, Postgres at 173 MB, and Redis at 24 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Shared vCPU 22.7% 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
22.7% 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
Oregon
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 15, 2026, 05:05:38 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 15, 2026, 05:05:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 15, 2026, 05:05:27 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 15, 2026, 05:05:27 UTC
Completed
Oct 15, 2026, 06:50:58 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 15, 2026, 06:50:58 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.017
TestResultTime
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