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We have tested 11 VPS plans from Hetzner and Amazon Lightsail. This page is a summary and a comparison of all test results for those 2 providers.
Amazon Lightsail was founded in 2016.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers VPS hosting products.
Plan Name | Monthly Price | CPU cores | Memory (GB) | Disk Space (GB) | Data Transfer (GB) | Latest trial | |
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CX11 | 2.49€ | 1 | 2.0 | 20 | 20000 | Feb 05 2020 |
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1GB 1core | $5.00 | 1 | 1.0 | 40 | 2000 | Jul 19 2020 |
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CX21 | 4.90€ | 2 | 4.0 | 40 | 20000 | May 09 2020 |
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2GB 1core | $10.00 | 1 | 2.0 | 60 | 3000 | Dec 23 2020 |
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CX31 | 8.90€ | 2 | 8.0 | 80 | 20000 | Oct 17 2020 |
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CPX31 | 12.40€ | 4 | 8.0 | 160 | 20000 | Jul 13 2020 |
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4GB 2cores | $20.00 | 2 | 4.0 | 80 | 4000 | Mar 21 2021 |
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CCX11 | 19.90€ | 2 | 8.0 | 80 | 20000 | Jan 07 2021 |
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CCX12 | 23.68€ | 2 | 8.0 | 80 | 20000 | Mar 31 2021 |
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8GB 2cores | $40.00 | 2 | 8.0 | 160 | 5000 | Oct 04 2020 |
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CCX21 | 34.90€ | 4 | 16.0 | 160 | 20000 | Apr 02 2020 |
To summarize the performance of each VPS plan, we generated grades based on the various tests that were run: web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Each grade focuses on one aspect of the VPS speed or stability (cpu, disk IO, network IO...) and is made of one or more metrics measured during the tests.
Grades are evenly distributed between A and F. A is best, F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
Screen all VPS from Hetzner and Amazon LightsailPlan Name | Web Perf | Raw CPU Power | Perf Stability | Disk IO Perf | Network Perf | |
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CX11
2.49€ |
E | E | C | D | B |
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1GB 1core
$5.00 |
B | F | D | E | D |
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CX21
4.90€ |
D | C | D | D | C |
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2GB 1core
$10.00 |
D | F | C | E | D |
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CX31
8.90€ |
D | C | E | C | C |
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CPX31
12.40€ |
C | A | D | B | B |
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4GB 2cores
$20.00 |
C | E | C | F | C |
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CCX11
19.90€ |
D | D | C | C | B |
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CCX12
23.68€ |
D | C | E | B | B |
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8GB 2cores
$40.00 |
B | E | C | E | C |
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CCX21
34.90€ |
C | A | B | B | B |
These are the CPUs we have seen in Hetzner and Amazon Lightsail instances in the past 18 months.
All Hetzner CPUs | All Amazon Lightsail CPUs |
AMD EPYC Processor AMD EPYC Processor (with IBPB) Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS) |
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2676 v3 @ 2.40GHz Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2686 v4 @ 2.30GHz |
This is the average time it took to create an instance for Hetzner and Amazon Lightsail from instance order to instance accepting connections.
Hetzner | Amazon Lightsail | |
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Number of instance creations in sample | 8 | 9 |
Average provisioning time | 14s | 47s |
These are some of the test results that make up the grades above.
We ran a database intensive web application at various levels of load on cloud servers from Hetzner and Amazon Lightsail. This is the average response time measured locally on the VPS for each plan we tested.
Local Response Time per Plan
Lower is better
We ran a database intensive web application at various levels of load on cloud servers from Hetzner and Amazon Lightsail. This is the maximum rate of HTTP requests that each server handled without error.
Maximum HTTP request rate
Higher is better
We ran the full suite of Sysbench tests on VPS plans of Hetzner and Amazon Lightsail. These are the Sysbench CPU test results:
Rate of operations
Higher is better
We ran the full suite of Sysbench tests on VPS plans of Hetzner and Amazon Lightsail. These are the Sysbench Disk IO Random Read test results:
Rate of operations
Higher is better
We have performed large file transfers from the Hetzner and Amazon Lightsail VPS and we measured the speed of downloads and uploads.
The transfers involve multiple files, 10 threads and last for at least 10 seconds at maximum speed. The transfers are repeated 3 times from different servers and only the fastest transfer is reported here.
Download Speed per Plan
Higher is better
We pushed the CPU of those VPS plans hard for 24 hours straight.
This test shows how fast the VPS can go for long periods of time, how stable the performance is and it also gives clues on how overallocated the VPSs may be.
Average number of operations per hour
Higher is better
Features not included in the VPS price of the plan will be marked as missing but they may be available for the fee.
Amazon Lightsail Review | Hetzner Review | |
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Hourly Billing | Yes | Yes |
DDOS Protection | No | Yes |
Backups | No | No |
Control Panel | custom | Custom |
SSH Keys Setup | Yes | Yes |
Total Number of Datacenters | 13 | 3 |
Number of Datacenter Continents | 4 | 1 |
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