# Amazon Lightsail Micro, 2 TB transfer

Oregon

Benchmark complete

Finished Oct 6, 2026

Geekbench 7 single-core

Skipped

Geekbench 7 multi-core

Skipped

Disk 4K IOPS

3,077

fio random read and write, 50/50

Monthly price at test time

$7.00

Same price today

## Server

[Amazon Lightsail](https://74pzd.hatchboxapp.com/vps-providers/lightsail-benchmarks)[Micro, 2 TB transfer](https://74pzd.hatchboxapp.com/plans/k4spwg-lightsail-micro-2-tb-transfer-benchmarks?location=us-west-2)

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Provider

Amazon Lightsail

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Plan

Micro, 2 TB transfer

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Location

Oregon

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vCPU

2

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RAM

1 GB

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Storage

40 GB SSD

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Network

Unknown

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OS image

ubuntu\_24\_04

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Trigger

Scheduled

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Queued at

Oct 6, 2026, 05:04:00 UTC

[Visit Amazon Lightsail](https://74pzd.hatchboxapp.com/go/lightsail)

## Latest runs of this plan

- [Frankfurt Oct 6, 2026](https://74pzd.hatchboxapp.com/benchmarks/3t916y-lightsail-micro-2-tb-transfer-eu-central-1-benchmark)Skipped

[Full history of this plan](https://74pzd.hatchboxapp.com/plans/k4spwg-lightsail-micro-2-tb-transfer-benchmarks/history)

## CPU

Geekbench was skipped because this plan has less than 4 GB of RAM, which isn't enough for Geekbench 7 to finish without swap.

## Disk

| Block size | Read | Write | Total |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 4K | 6 MB/s (1,539 IOPS) | 6 MB/s (1,538 IOPS) | 12 MB/s (3,077 IOPS) |
| 64K | 64.5 MB/s (1,031 IOPS) | 64.9 MB/s (1,038 IOPS) | 129.4 MB/s (2,069 IOPS) |
| 512K | 62 MB/s (123 IOPS) | 64.9 MB/s (129 IOPS) | 126.9 MB/s (252 IOPS) |
| 1M | 61.4 MB/s (61 IOPS) | 65.7 MB/s (65 IOPS) | 127.1 MB/s (126 IOPS) |

fio random read and write, 50/50, run by YABS against the boot disk.

## Network

### IPv4 transfer speed

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| Target | Protocol | Send | Receive |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Clouvider, London, UK (10G) | IPv4 | 1.14 Gbps | 716 Mbps |
| Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) | IPv4 | 137 Mbps | 1.89 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) | IPv4 | 840 Mbps | 1.34 Gbps |
| Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | IPv4 | 1.81 Gbps | 1.64 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) | IPv4 | 1.78 Gbps | 2.85 Gbps |

Public iperf3 servers vary in capacity and availability. Compare a target only with itself over time.

## Advertised vs. measured

| Spec | Advertised | Measured |
| --- | --- | --- |
| vCPU | 2 | 2 |
| CPU | Shared vCPU | 11.4% of busy CPU time stolen |
| RAM | 1 GB | 910 MiB |
| Storage | 40 GB SSD | 38.7 GiB |
| Architecture | x86\_64 | x86\_64 |
| Virtualization | KVM | AMAZON |

Guests usually report slightly less RAM and disk than advertised because of kernel reservations and filesystem overhead.

## Detected hardware

**CPU model:** Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8259CL CPU @ 2.50GHz

**CPU cores:** 2

**CPU frequency:** 2500 MHz

**AES-NI:** Yes

**VM-x/AMD-V:** No

**RAM reported:** 910 MiB

**Swap reported:** 0 MiB

**Disk reported:** 38.7 GiB

**Virtualization reported:** AMAZON

**CPU steal:** 11.4% of busy CPU time stolen

**Distro:** Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

**Kernel:** 7.0.0-1012-aws

**Architecture:** x86\_64

**IPv4 reachable:** Yes

**IPv6 reachable:** Yes

## Advertised at test time

**Plan:** Micro, 2 TB transfer

**Product line:** General Purpose

**Location:** Oregon

**vCPU:** 2 shared vCPU

**Architecture:** x86\_64

**RAM:** 1 GB

**Storage:** 40 GB SSD

**Virtualization:** KVM

**Network:** Unknown

**Transfer:** 2.05 TB

**Port 25:** On request

**Monthly price at test time:** $7.00

**Hourly price at test time:** $0.0094

**YABS version:** v2026-09-20

**Ran at:** Oct 6, 2026, 05:04:43 UTC

**Parser version:** 4

## Run timeline

**Queued:** Oct 6, 2026, 05:04:00 UTC

**Server created:** Oct 6, 2026, 05:04:36 UTC

**First update from the server:** Oct 6, 2026, 05:04:36 UTC

**Completed:** Oct 6, 2026, 05:09:14 UTC

**Server deleted:** Oct 6, 2026, 05:09:14 UTC

**Cost of this run:** $0.0094

Tests 15 of 15 done Live output 82 lines

Setup 2 cores, 909.5 MiB RAM 4 of 4Done

Disk (fio) 12.6 MB/s at 4k, 133 MB/s at 1m 5 of 5Done

Network, IPv4 (iperf3) Median 1.14 Gbit/s send, 1.64 Gbit/s receive 5 of 5Done

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