# 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

[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-west-2)

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Provider

Amazon Lightsail

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Plan

Micro, 2 TB transfer

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Location

Oregon

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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 15, 2026, 05:05:00 UTC

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

## Latest runs of this plan

- [Virginia Oct 15, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/xz1e9q-lightsail-micro-2-tb-transfer-us-east-1-benchmark)Skipped
- [Montreal Oct 13, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/jmp32a-lightsail-micro-2-tb-transfer-ca-central-1-benchmark)Skipped
- [Ohio Oct 12, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/h89a21-lightsail-micro-2-tb-transfer-us-east-2-benchmark)Skipped
- [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

[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 | 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

| Spec | 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

Tests 30 of 34 done Live output 705 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

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

Datastores 5 of 5Done

Web frameworks 10 of 10Done

Web apps 4 failed, 2 skipped 2 of 6Some failed

TestResultTime

WooCommerce page mix 32 vus Stopped k6 summary at 32 virtual users didn't parse: k6 recorded no requests for step category 6m 37s

WooCommerce cart flow 32 vus Stopped k6 summary at 32 virtual users didn't parse: k6 recorded no requests for step checkout 4m 03s

Discourse, signed in Discourse Not run discourse-setup refuses boxes with less than 1 GB of memory, this one has 909 MB

Discourse, anonymous Discourse Not run discourse-setup refuses boxes with less than 1 GB of memory, this one has 909 MB

Ghost, readers warmup Stopped k6 summary at 4 virtual users didn't parse: k6 recorded no requests for step home 13m 50s

Ghost, staff in Ghost Admin warmup Stopped k6 summary at 4 virtual users didn't parse: k6 recorded no requests for step home 4m 27s

Wagtail, visitors 16 vus 1.34 req/s rps, 16 vus 7m 09s

Wagtail, editors in the Wagtail admin 4 vus 0.36 req/s rps, 4 vus 2m 26s

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