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

2 shared vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD

[Shared CPU](https://rackcensus.com/vps-categories/shared-cpu-vps-benchmarks)

$44.00/mo

$0.059/hr

$43.14/mo at 730 hours

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# Performance by location
[Every run of this plan](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks?filter%5Bplan%5D=lightsail-large-3-2&filter%5Bsort%5D=location)

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

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.