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Amazon Lightsail Small 2 vCPU / 2 GB, 1.5 TB transfer benchmarks

2 shared vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB SSD

Shared CPU
$12.00/mo
$0.016/hr
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Performance by location

Every run of this plan

Averages over the last 90 days. Same plan, same provider, different datacenters.

Location Runs GB7 single GB7 multi 4K IOPS Price Last tested
Sydney (ap-southeast-2) (ap-southeast-2)
Sydney, NSW, AU
 0 n/a n/a n/a $12.00/mo Not tested yet

A location is highlighted only when it leads the next best by 5 percent or more. Smaller gaps are normal run-to-run variance.

Network results are not compared here. iperf3 targets are third-party servers, so distance to each target dominates the number.

Benchmark history

We have not benchmarked this plan yet. It shows up here after its first scheduled run.

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Advertised specs

Product line
General Purpose
Sold as
VPS
Plan identifier
small_3_2
vCPU
2
CPU kind
Shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
2 GB
Storage
60 GB SSD
Disk class
Unknown
Virtualization
KVM
Network port
Unknown
Transfer
1.54 TB
Overage
Unknown
IPv4
Included
IPv6
Included
Port 25
On request
Status
Active

Price history

  • $0.016 Hourly
    Since Oct 3, 2026
  • $12.00 Monthly
    Since Oct 3, 2026

Available in

  • Sydney (ap-southeast-2) (ap-southeast-2) Sydney, NSW, AU