8GB 2cores by Amazon Lightsail
Specifications and performance for Amazon Lightsail - 8GB 2cores
Instance Type: General purpose
This plan belongs to the Amazon Lightsail General purpose server line (Single server line).
Instance Type Description
Lightsail gets you started quickly with preconfigured Linux and Windows application stacks and an intuitive management console.
Focus on your code, not your bill. Lightsail bundles all the resources you need into a single, simple price.
Lightsail automatically configures networking, access, and security environments, taking the guesswork out of launching your server.
Instance Type Specifications
| Approximate Cost per vCPU | Between $12.00 and $22.00 |
| Approximate RAM per vCPU | Between 2.0 and 4.0GB |
| Hourly billing | yes |
| CPU type | INTEL |
| Shared CPU | yes |
| Storage included | yes |
See also all Amazon Lightsail instance types.
"8GB 2cores" Plan Specifications
| Provider | Amazon Lightsail |
|---|---|
| Plan URL | https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/ |
| Price per month |
$44.00
Amazon Lightsail lets you deduct $4.00 from this price if you don't need an IPv4 address. |
| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
| Hourly Billing | Yes: $0.0610/hour |
| Disk GB | 160 |
| Num Cores | 2 |
| Memory GB | 8 |
| Virtualization | Xen |
| Data Transfer GB | 5000 |
| Burstable CPU | Per core CPU allocation: 70% |
| Dedicated CPU | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst. The grades below are those of the most recent trial run for this plan.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 25
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests during the latest trial for Amazon Lightsail - 8GB 2cores. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
| Yabs | Web Runs | Network Transfers | Sysbench | Endurance |
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| Review | Review | Review | Review | Review |
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Performance trials run on the 8GB 2cores plan
This plan was tested 2 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the 8GB 2cores plan with its grade and CPU type.
| Start of Trial | CPU | Datacenter | Overall Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 03 2024 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8259CL CPU @ 2.50GHz | Paris, France | E |
| Nov 14 2021 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2676 v3 @ 2.40GHz | Virginia, USA | D |