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Amazon Lightsail Large 2 vCPU / 8 GB, 2.5 TB transfer benchmarks

2 shared vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD

Shared CPU
$44.00/mo
$0.059/hr
$43.14/mo at 730 hours
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Performance by location

Every run of this plan

Medians over the last 90 days. Same plan, same provider, different datacenters. Multi per $ divides the multi-core median by each location's current monthly price, USD only.

Price position
$39$70
Cheaper than 54% of 13 similar plans
Same vCPU count and CPU type, 6 to 11 GB RAM, median $45
Location Runs GB7 single GB7 multi 4K IOPS Price Multi per $ Last tested
Sydney
Sydney, NSW, AU
 0 n/a n/a n/a $44.00/mo n/a 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.