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Amazon Lightsail Micro, 2 TB transfer

Virginia

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 15, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
Skipped
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
3,097
fio random read and write, 50/50
Median here: 3,097 over 3 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
$7.00
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Amazon Lightsail
  • Plan
    Micro, 2 TB transfer
  • Location
    Virginia
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    1 GB
  • Storage
    40 GB SSD
  • Network
    Unknown
  • OS image
    ubuntu_24_04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 14, 2026, 23:04:00 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 10.9 GB/s 3 0.622%
Scale higher is better 12.6 GB/s 3 0.959%
Add higher is better 13.2 GB/s 3 1.01%
Triad higher is better 13.2 GB/s 3 0.923%

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 231/s 3 0.558%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 15,364/s 3 0.0825%
SHA-256 higher is better 258 MB/s 3 0.162%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 3.42 GB/s 3 0.188%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 2.2 GB/s 3 0.0694%

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 7.72 ms 3 0.12%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 256/s 3 0%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 23.8 ms 3 66.4%
Requests per second, average higher is better 252/s 3 1.95%

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 (1,549 IOPS) 6 MB/s (1,548 IOPS) 12.1 MB/s (3,097 IOPS)
64K 64.5 MB/s (1,031 IOPS) 64.9 MB/s (1,037 IOPS) 129.3 MB/s (2,068 IOPS)
512K 61.9 MB/s (123 IOPS) 64.9 MB/s (129 IOPS) 126.8 MB/s (252 IOPS)
1M 61.3 MB/s (61 IOPS) 65.6 MB/s (65 IOPS) 126.9 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 1,064 0.94 ms
fdatasync 1,049 0.953 ms
fsync 346 2.89 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 347 2.88 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 527 1.9 ms
fdatasync 972 1.03 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 147 6.82 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 82.4 12.1 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 44.2 22.6 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 21.7 46 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 997,983 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 1.44 ms 2.13 ms 2.66 ms 10.8 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,301 3.03 ms 6.63 ms 10.3 ms 21.9 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 2,786 8.23 ms 30.6 ms 53.3 ms 106 ms 0
Read only 1 16,942 0.054 ms 0.072 ms 0.115 ms 0.255 ms 0
Read only 8 36,386 0.191 ms 0.379 ms 0.498 ms 0.771 ms 0
Read only 32 31,235 0.768 ms 1.48 ms 2.31 ms 3.91 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.29 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 2.71 ms 3.27 ms 4.78 ms 9.8 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 995 5.94 ms 15.8 ms 22.3 ms 38.9 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 1,061 26.4 ms 46.8 ms 69.7 ms 285 ms 0
Read only 1 917 1.23 ms 1.64 ms 4.62 ms 6.11 ms 0
Read only 8 1,623 5.08 ms 9.78 ms 12 ms 15.5 ms 0
Read only 32 1,748 19.6 ms 30.3 ms 39.5 ms 514 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 1 123 2,458 7.43 ms 11.4 ms 23.9 ms 0
Read/write 8 463 9,262 14 ms 45 ms 69.3 ms 0
Read/write 32 654 13,071 48.3 ms 74.5 ms 95.8 ms 0
Read only 1 611 9,782 1.52 ms 2.31 ms 3.19 ms 0
Read only 8 1,190 19,040 6.67 ms 9.91 ms 11.7 ms 0
Read only 32 1,104 17,670 27.7 ms 55.8 ms 63.3 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 15.7 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 51,650 46,954 0.735 ms 3.6 ms 9.22 ms
1:1 set:get 50,783 25,391 0.727 ms 3.47 ms 6.24 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 210 1,028 1,378 3.55 s
Express express-postgresjs 7,778 8,485 12,789 954 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 7,880 10,130 14,916 231 ms
NestJS nestjs 527 741 5,397 1.37 s
Nuxt nuxt 5,112 7,720 13,791 1.52 s
FastAPI fastapi 2,186 2,733 9,421 253 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,085 1,288 3,005 322 ms
Rails rails 1,212 1,585 6,192 591 ms
Laravel laravel 36.6 464 905 7.03 s
Symfony symfony 46 49.2 150 5.59 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: woo-db stopped before it was ready: 0:18:29 0 [Note] mariadbd: Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events 2026-10-15 0:18:29 0 [Note] Replication not automatically started: --skip-slave-start was specified 2026-10-15 0:18:29 0 [Note] mariadbd: ready for connections. Version: '12.3.3-MariaDB-ubu2404' socket: '/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' port: 0 mariadb.org binary distribution 2026-10-15 00:18:29+00:00 [ERROR] [Entrypoint]: Unable to start server.

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 author

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 0.178 719 ms 1.38 s 1.74 s 0%
Blog index 0.178 2.57 s 2.76 s 2.81 s 0%
Blog post 0.501 234 ms 363 ms 459 ms 0%
Bread page 0.517 241 ms 508 ms 778 ms 0%
Location page 0.178 240 ms 244 ms 244 ms 0%
Site search 0.161 398 ms 568 ms 629 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 0.145 3.6 s 4.01 s 4.06 s 0%
Blog index 0.161 14 s 15.8 s 15.8 s 0%
Blog post 0.419 958 ms 1.76 s 2.06 s 0%
Bread page 0.451 959 ms 1.6 s 1.65 s 0%
Location page 0.161 957 ms 2.11 s 2.65 s 0%
Site search 0.129 1.8 s 2.45 s 2.47 s 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 0.0847 10.9 s 16 s 16.9 s 0%
Blog index 0.169 30.2 s 36.6 s 37.7 s 0%
Blog post 0.367 7.16 s 10.3 s 10.8 s 0%
Bread page 0.409 7.21 s 11.6 s 12.2 s 0%
Location page 0.169 7.17 s 11.8 s 11.8 s 0%
Site search 0.127 8.56 s 11 s 11 s 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.0608 757 ms 935 ms 955 ms 0%
Page explorer 0.122 2.72 s 3.7 s 3.74 s 0%
Page editor 0.183 1.32 s 2.3 s 2.9 s 0%
Image library 0.0608 597 ms 6.24 s 7.03 s 0%
Admin page search 0.0608 518 ms 634 ms 645 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.044 5.44 s 5.73 s 5.75 s 0%
Page explorer 0.0879 13.2 s 15.1 s 15.1 s 0%
Page editor 0.147 4.96 s 8.05 s 8.6 s 0%
Image library 0.044 4.8 s 5.59 s 5.66 s 0%
Admin page search 0.044 1.28 s 2.94 s 3.09 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 319 MB, Postgres at 171 MB, and Redis at 26 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Shared vCPU 31.2% 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
31.2% 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 14, 2026, 23:04:41 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 14, 2026, 23:04:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 14, 2026, 23:04:24 UTC
Completed
Oct 15, 2026, 00:46:57 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 15, 2026, 00:46:57 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.016
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