Amazon Lightsail Web Test
1GB 1core - Jul 30 2017

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Provider Plan Cost per month Disk space (GB) Memory (GB) Num Cores
Amazon Lightsail 1GB 1core $5.00 40 1.0 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
Jul 30 2017 87237 59 100 280 12 92.05% 0.07% 1.21%
Jul 31 2017 81134 65 120 360 15 92.09% 0.07% 1.29%
Aug 01 2017 80468 64 120 340 14 91.91% 0.07% 1.41%
Aug 02 2017 74190 67 120 320 15 92.04% 0.07% 1.51%
Aug 03 2017 86656 75 120 400 20 90.09% 0.08% 2.61%
Aug 04 2017 94885 69 130 400 17 90.22% 0.08% 2.14%
Aug 05 2017 82229 64 110 300 16 91.42% 0.08% 1.72%

Weekly Web Metrics


Day Num requests Average Total ms P95 Total ms P99 Total ms Average Db ms Cpu idle Cpu steal Iowait
Jul 30 2017 584340 66 120 340 16 91.37% 0.08% 1.72%

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

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