Amazon Lightsail Web Test
2GB 1core - Jan 29 2017

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Provider Plan Cost per month Disk space (GB) Memory (GB) Num Cores
Amazon Lightsail 2GB 1core $10.00 60 2.0 1

Test Results

The Web performance test lasts for the whole duration of the trial (several days) and reports the response time and system metrics of a popular website running a Ruby on Rails application backed by a Postgres database.

Web Performance

Daily Web Metrics

Response time

CPU utilization



Day Num requests Average Total ms P95 Total ms P99 Total ms Average Db ms Cpu idle Cpu steal Iowait
Jan 29 2017 204313 45 80 170 3 87.73% 0.04% 0.21%
Jan 30 2017 193090 47 88 190 4 86.86% 0.06% 0.45%
Jan 31 2017 247900 49 92 240 4 83.54% 0.08% 0.54%
Feb 01 2017 174702 48 90 240 4 87.43% 0.08% 0.58%
Feb 02 2017 151962 48 90 240 4 88.66% 0.09% 0.67%
Feb 03 2017 177556 49 92 240 4 87.14% 0.10% 0.60%
Feb 04 2017 170912 51 96 240 4 86.86% 0.12% 0.59%

Weekly Web Metrics


Day Num requests Average Total ms P95 Total ms P99 Total ms Average Db ms Cpu idle Cpu steal Iowait
Jan 29 2017 1317672 48 90 240 4 86.84% 0.08% 0.55%

Web Performance comparison


Web performance is measured locally on the VPS and includes Rails app response times as well as system metrics.

Compare Amazon Lightsail - 2GB 1core web performance with other VPS providers or review the daily and weekly web metrics below.

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