Amazon Lightsail Review
Amazon Lightsail was founded in 2016.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers VPS hosting products.
- Australia
- Canada
- France
- Germany
- India
- Ireland
- Japan
- Singapore
- South Korea
- UK
- USA
This provider is related to Amazon EC2
EC2 is the full featured cloud offering from Amazon
Features and Usability
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
Last updated on August 23 2019.
| Feature | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly Billing | Yes | |
| DDOS Protection | No | No DDoS protection by default. |
| Backups | No | Snapshots are available for a fee: |
| Control Panel | custom | |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 13 | |
| Number of Datacenter Continents | 4 | |
| Monitoring Charts | Yes | CPU, Network In, Network Out, Status checks. |
| Admin REST API | Yes | |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | No | |
| Mobile Friendly UI | No | |
| Reverse DNS | No | No visible option to set the reverse DNS, even for a static IP. |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit cards | |
| Hidden CPU Model | No | |
| Affiliate Program | No | |
| Firewall | Yes | Under networking. |
In VPSBenchmark's opinion
Amazon Lightsail Extra Services
In addition to features included in the VPS plan, Amazon Lightsail also offers the following services (possibly for a fee):
| Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer | Floating IP addresses |
| Teams | Datastores | Serverless | DDoS protection | Kubernetes |
| GPU instances |
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
For each Amazon Lightsail VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
| Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| 45s | 40s | 50s | 5 |
Admin UI Screenshots
Cloud Storage Prices
For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage page.
| Storage Type | Price / GB / month | Restriction | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Block | $0.100 | https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/faq/#Billing_and_account_management | |
| Snapshots | $0.050 | https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/faq/#Billing_and_account_management |
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Amazon Lightsail Plans
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/ |
|---|---|
| Price per month | $5.00 |
| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
| Disk GB | 40 |
| Num Cores | 1 |
| Memory GB | 1.0 |
| Hourly Billing | Yes |
| Virtualization | Xen |
| Data Transfer GB | 2000 |
| Burstable CPU |
Per core CPU allocation: 10%
|
| Dedicated | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 16
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests during the latest trial for Amazon Lightsail - 1GB 1core. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the 1GB 1core plan
This plan was tested 6 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the 1GB 1core plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | Web Results | Sysbench Results | Avg web response time | P99 web response time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22 2019 | Web | Sysbench | 140ms | 1463ms |
| Sep 06 2018 | Web | Sysbench | 58ms | 273ms |
| Apr 19 2018 | Web | Sysbench | 59ms | 260ms |
| Jul 30 2017 | Web | Sysbench | 66ms | 342ms |
| Jul 23 2017 | Web | Sysbench | 59ms | 291ms |
| Dec 03 2016 | Web | Sysbench | 156ms | 1540ms |
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/ |
|---|---|
| Price per month | $10.00 |
| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
| Disk GB | 60 |
| Num Cores | 1 |
| Memory GB | 2.0 |
| Hourly Billing | Yes |
| Virtualization | Xen |
| Data Transfer GB | 3000 |
| Burstable CPU |
Per core CPU allocation: 25%
|
| Dedicated | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 45
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests during the latest trial for Amazon Lightsail - 2GB 1core. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the 2GB 1core plan
This plan was tested 4 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the 2GB 1core plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | Web Results | Sysbench Results | Avg web response time | P99 web response time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20 2019 | Web | Sysbench | 61ms | 275ms |
| Jun 28 2018 | Web | Sysbench | 52ms | 246ms |
| Oct 21 2017 | Web | Sysbench | 53ms | 260ms |
| Jan 29 2017 | Web | Sysbench | 48ms | 222ms |
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/ |
|---|---|
| Price per month | $20.00 |
| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
| Disk GB | 80 |
| Num Cores | 2 |
| Memory GB | 4.0 |
| Hourly Billing | Yes |
| Virtualization | Xen |
| Data Transfer GB | 4000 |
| Burstable CPU |
Per core CPU allocation: 35%
|
| Dedicated | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 55
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests during the latest trial for Amazon Lightsail - 4GB 2cores. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the 4GB 2cores plan
This plan was tested 3 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the 4GB 2cores plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | Web Results | Sysbench Results | Avg web response time | P99 web response time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 07 2019 | Web | Sysbench | 59ms | 190ms |
| Nov 05 2018 | Web | Sysbench | 54ms | 290ms |
| Jun 07 2018 | Web | Sysbench | 46ms | 233ms |
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/ |
|---|---|
| Price per month | $40.00 |
| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
| Disk GB | 160 |
| Num Cores | 2 |
| Memory GB | 8.0 |
| Hourly Billing | Yes |
| Virtualization | Xen |
| Data Transfer GB | 5000 |
| Burstable CPU |
Per core CPU allocation: 70%
|
| Dedicated | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 62
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests during the latest trial for Amazon Lightsail - 8GB 2cores. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the 8GB 2cores plan
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the 8GB 2cores plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | Web Results | Sysbench Results | Avg web response time | P99 web response time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19 2019 | Web | Sysbench | 60ms | 260ms |
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