Kamatera vs Amazon Lightsail
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We have tested 11 VPS plans from Kamatera and Amazon Lightsail. We'll show which one is best based on a detailed performance analysis, on features and prices.
Kamatera
Kamatera was founded as a VPS provider in 1995.
It is headquartered in Israel.
It offers VPS managed and unmanaged hosting products.
- Australia
- Canada
- Germany
- Hong Kong
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Netherlands
- Singapore
- Spain
- Sweden
- United Kingdom
- United States
Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Lightsail was founded as a VPS provider in 2016.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers VPS hosting products.
- Australia
- Canada
- France
- Germany
- India
- Ireland
- Japan
- Singapore
- South Korea
- United Kingdom
- United States
VPS Plans
| Plan Name | Monthly Price | CPU cores | Memory (GB) | Disk Space (GB) | Data Transfer (GB) | Latest trial | |
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Availability 1GB 1core | $4.00 | 1 | 1.0 | 20 | 5000 | Nov 05 2023 |
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Availability 2GB 1 core | $6.00 | 1 | 2.0 | 20 | 5000 | Nov 14 2024 |
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General 1GB 1 core | $9.00 | 1 | 1.0 | 20 | 5000 | Feb 07 2024 |
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2GB 2cores | $12.00 | 2 | 2.0 | 60 | 3000 | Oct 14 2023 |
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General 2GB 1 core | $15.00 | 1 | 2.0 | 20 | 5000 | Jun 28 2024 |
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Availability 4GB 2 cores | $19.00 | 2 | 4.0 | 40 | 5000 | Mar 27 2024 |
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General 4GB 2 cores | $42.00 | 2 | 4.0 | 40 | 5000 | Aug 13 2024 |
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Availability 8GB 4 cores (Off rankings) | $42.00 | 4 | 8.0 | 80 | 5000 | Sep 28 2024 |
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8GB 2cores | $44.00 | 2 | 8.0 | 160 | 5000 | May 03 2024 |
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General 8GB 4 cores | $90.00 | 4 | 8.0 | 80 | 5000 | Dec 20 2023 |
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Availability 16GB 8 cores | $99.00 | 8 | 16.0 | 150 | 5000 | May 13 2024 |
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Note: "Off rankings" plans are not included in the Screener and are not considered for Best VPS rankings. They may either be previews where the VPS have been directly provisioned by the provider, they may be too old or they may exceed the maximum number of plans that can be listed for each provider.
Performance Grades
To summarize the performance of each VPS plan, we generated grades based on the various tests that were run: web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Each grade focuses on one aspect of the VPS speed or stability (cpu, disk IO, network IO...) and is made of one or more metrics measured during the tests.
Grades are evenly distributed between A and F. A is best, F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
Screen all VPS from Kamatera and Amazon Lightsail| Plan Name | Web Perf | Raw CPU Power | Perf Stability | Disk IO Perf | Network Perf | |
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Availability 1GB 1core
$4.00 |
C | F | E | B | C |
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Availability 2GB 1 core
$6.00 |
D | F | E | B | C |
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General 1GB 1 core
$9.00 |
D | F | D | B | B |
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2GB 2cores
$12.00 |
F | E | F | F | C |
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General 2GB 1 core
$15.00 |
E | F | C | B | B |
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Availability 4GB 2 cores
$19.00 |
D | E | E | B | B |
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General 4GB 2 cores
$42.00 |
C | E | B | B | C |
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Availability 8GB 4 cores (Off rankings)
$42.00 |
B | C | D | D | C |
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8GB 2cores
$44.00 |
F | E | E | F | C |
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General 8GB 4 cores
$90.00 |
B | C | B | A | B |
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Availability 16GB 8 cores
$99.00 |
C | C | E | B | B |
Features and Datacenters
This list is a subset of the features each provider may offer.
CPUs
These are the CPUs we have seen in Kamatera and Amazon Lightsail instances in the past 18 months.
| Kamatera | Amazon Lightsail |
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| All Kamatera CPUs by plan | All Amazon Lightsail CPUs by plan |
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Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8358P CPU @ 2.60GHz QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.5+ |
Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8259CL CPU @ 2.50GHz |
Performance Consistency
The provider consistency score shows how much variation can be expected between 2 servers of the same type at the same provider. A high consistency score (>65) means the performance of all servers of the provider is consistent over many trials and many plans.
Providers who don't have enough data yet at VPSBenchmarks don't have a consistency score.
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VPS Instance Provisioning Time
This is the average time it took to create an instance for Kamatera and Amazon Lightsail from instance order to instance accepting connections.
| Kamatera | Amazon Lightsail | |
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| Number of instance creations in sample | 12 | 2 |
| Average provisioning time | 302s | 60s |
Performance in Depth...
These are some of the test results that are used to determine the grades above.
Web Response Times
We ran a database intensive web application at various levels of load on cloud servers from Kamatera and Amazon Lightsail. This is the average response time measured locally on the VPS for each plan we tested.
Local Response Time per Plan
Lower is better
Maximum HTTP Load
We ran a database intensive web application at various levels of load on cloud servers from Kamatera and Amazon Lightsail. This is the maximum rate of HTTP requests that each server handled without timing out.
Maximum HTTP request rate
Higher is better
Sysbench CPU Performance
We ran the full suite of Sysbench tests on VPS plans of Kamatera and Amazon Lightsail. These are the Sysbench CPU test results:
Rate of operations
Higher is better
Sysbench Disk IO Performance
We ran the full suite of Sysbench tests on VPS plans of Kamatera and Amazon Lightsail. These are the Sysbench Disk IO Random Read test results:
Rate of operations
Higher is better
Review and compare all Sysbench numbers on the Sysbench Comparison page for Kamatera and Amazon Lightsail.
Network Transfers
We have performed large file transfers from the Kamatera and Amazon Lightsail VPS and we measured the speed of downloads and uploads.
The transfers involve multiple files, 10 threads and last for at least 10 seconds at maximum speed. The transfers are repeated 3 times from different servers and only the fastest transfer is reported here.
Download Speed per Plan
Higher is better
Sustained CPU Endurance Tests
We pushed the CPU of those VPS plans hard for 24 hours straight.
This test shows how fast the VPS can go for long periods of time, how stable the performance is and it also gives clues on how overallocated the VPSs may be.
Throughput variations of the endurance test over 24 hours. The coefficient of variation is the standard deviation of the test throughput divided by its average value. Low variations mean that resources allocated to the server were stable for the duration of the test and there was little contention.
Ops/hour coefficient of variation
Lower is better
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