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Amazon Lightsail 1GB 1core, July 23rd 2017
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We have run a full suite of performance tests on the 1GB 1core VPS plan of Amazon Lightsail. VPSBenchmarks bought, setup the server and started the tests.
On this page, you'll find:
- Price and specifications for the 1GB 1core plan.
- The grades that summarize its performance in 5 categories based on the benchmarks results.
- Links to the detailed benchmarks results that can be compared to other providers and other plans.
| Provider | Plan | Monthly price | Hourly billing | Num CPU cores | Memory (GB) | Disk space (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Lightsail | 1GB 1core | $5.00 | Yes |
1 (burstable) |
1 | 40 |
| Datacenter | CPU type | CPU details | OS, Kernel and Virtualization | Data transfer (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| us-east-2a | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2676 v3 @ 2.40GHz |
Frequency: 2.4 GHz |
Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS 4.4.0 Xen |
2000 |
Note: the CPU details Frequency is the frequency observed at the start of the trial. It may vary as the trial progresses.
Test Results
- Web Runs: performance of a web application running on the server with locally generated load. Latencies and max request rate.
- Sysbench: CPU, disk IO and memory speed tests.
- Endurance: output over time of a long running cpu intensive application.
- Network Transfers: maximum HTTP download and upload speeds between the VPS and servers located nearby.
- Yabs: test suite that includes Geekbench CPU tests, Fio for disk IO and Iperf3 for network transfers.