Amazon Lightsail Medium 2 vCPU / 4 GB, 4 TB transfer benchmarks
2 shared vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD
Performance by location
Every run of this planAverages over the last 90 days. Same plan, same provider, different datacenters.
| Location | Runs | GB7 single | GB7 multi | 4K IOPS | Price | Last tested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Frankfurt (eu-central-1) (eu-central-1)
Frankfurt, DE
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $24.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
Ireland (eu-west-1) (eu-west-1)
Dublin, IE
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $24.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
London (eu-west-2) (eu-west-2)
London, GB
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $24.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
Montreal (ca-central-1) (ca-central-1)
Montreal, QC, CA
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $24.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
Ohio (us-east-2) (us-east-2)
Columbus, OH, US
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $24.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
Oregon (us-west-2) (us-west-2)
Boardman, OR, US
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $24.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
Paris (eu-west-3) (eu-west-3)
Paris, FR
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $24.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
Seoul (ap-northeast-2) (ap-northeast-2)
Seoul, KR
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $24.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
Singapore (ap-southeast-1) (ap-southeast-1)
Singapore, SG
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $24.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
Stockholm (eu-north-1) (eu-north-1)
Stockholm, SE
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $24.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
Tokyo (ap-northeast-1) (ap-northeast-1)
Tokyo, JP
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $24.00/mo | Not tested yet |
|
Virginia (us-east-1) (us-east-1)
Ashburn, VA, US
|
0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | $24.00/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.
Similar plans from other providers
| Provider | Plan | vCPU | RAM | Storage | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linode | Linode 4GB | 2 shared vCPU | 4 GB | 80 GB SSD | $24.00 |
| DigitalOcean | Basic Intel 2 vCPU / 2 GB | 2 shared vCPU | 2 GB | 90 GB NVMe | $24.00 |
| DigitalOcean | Basic 2 vCPU / 4 GB | 2 shared vCPU | 4 GB | 80 GB SSD | $24.00 |
| Vultr | Cloud Compute High Frequency Intel 2 vCPU / 4 GB | 2 shared vCPU | 4 GB | 128 GB | $24.00 |
| Vultr | Cloud Compute High Performance AMD 2 vCPU / 4 GB | 2 shared vCPU | 4 GB | 100 GB | $24.00 |
| Vultr | Cloud Compute High Performance Intel 2 vCPU / 4 GB | 2 shared vCPU | 4 GB | 100 GB | $24.00 |
| Hetzner | CAX31 8 vCPU / 16 GB | 8 shared vCPU | 16 GB | 160 GB NVMe | $24.99 |
| LayerOne | gc.large | 6 shared vCPU | 16 GB | 320 GB NVMe | $25.00 |
Advertised specs
- Product line
- General Purpose
- Sold as
- VPS
- Plan identifier
- medium_3_0
- vCPU
- 2
- CPU kind
- Shared vCPU
- Architecture
- x86_64
- RAM
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 80 GB SSD
- Disk class
- Unknown
- Virtualization
- KVM
- Network port
- Unknown
- Transfer
- 4.1 TB
- Overage
- Unknown
- IPv4
- Included
- IPv6
- Included
- Port 25
- On request
- Status
- Active
Price history
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$0.032 HourlySince Oct 3, 2026
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$24.00 MonthlySince Oct 3, 2026
Available in
- Frankfurt (eu-central-1) (eu-central-1) Frankfurt, DE
- Ireland (eu-west-1) (eu-west-1) Dublin, IE
- London (eu-west-2) (eu-west-2) London, GB
- Montreal (ca-central-1) (ca-central-1) Montreal, QC, CA
- Ohio (us-east-2) (us-east-2) Columbus, OH, US
- Oregon (us-west-2) (us-west-2) Boardman, OR, US
- Paris (eu-west-3) (eu-west-3) Paris, FR
- Seoul (ap-northeast-2) (ap-northeast-2) Seoul, KR
- Singapore (ap-southeast-1) (ap-southeast-1) Singapore, SG
- Stockholm (eu-north-1) (eu-north-1) Stockholm, SE
- Tokyo (ap-northeast-1) (ap-northeast-1) Tokyo, JP
- Virginia (us-east-1) (us-east-1) Ashburn, VA, US