How much does AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GB cost?

$5 a month excl. VAT, which is $10 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on AWS Lightsail's own site.

What do you get with AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GB?

2 shared vCPU, 512 MB of RAM, 20 GB SSD of disk and 1 TB of traffic a month.

Where does AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GB run?

In 19 locations: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Dublin, IE, Europe (Spain), Frankfurt, DE, Jakarta, ID, London, GB, Montreal, CA, and more.

How does AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GB compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 96% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 90% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 79/100 on hardware per dollar, #103 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GB.

Prices checked 31 Oct

AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GB costs $5 a month for 2 vCPU, 512 MB of RAM and 20 GB SSD, cheaper than 96% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

Bundleshared vCPU

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Price

AWS Lightsail

$5/mo

$10 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 96% of the 527 plans we track.

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Value

79/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #103 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

Bundleshared vCPU

Compare withvs Cherry Servers Cloud VPS 2 (Gen 2)or any plan

What you get

RAM: 512 MBmore than 0% of plans
vCPU: 2 sharedmore than 14% of plans
Disk: 20 GB SSDmore than 30% of plans
Traffic: 1 TB a month

19 locations

Flat-rate bundle incl. public IPv4; monthly derived from the published hourly USD rate × 744 h (matches AWS's advertised bundle price within a cent). Specs anchored to US East (N. Virginia); transfer quota is lower in some Asia-Pacific regions.

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How it scores

Value 79/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.89 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.

RAM, 512 MB: 0.5
vCPU, 2: 3.0
Disk, 20 GB SSD: 0.6
Traffic, 1 TB: 0.3
4.4 points for $5: 0.89 a dollar

1 point per GB of RAM, 1.5 per vCPU, 1 per 25 GB of disk up to 500 GB (SSD × 0.8, HDD × 0.4), and 0.3 per TB of traffic up to 20 TB.

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Frequently asked

How much does AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GB cost?: $5 a month excl. VAT, which is $10 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on AWS Lightsail's own site.
What do you get with AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GB?: 2 shared vCPU, 512 MB of RAM, 20 GB SSD of disk and 1 TB of traffic a month.
Where does AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GB run?: In 19 locations: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Dublin, IE, Europe (Spain), Frankfurt, DE, Jakarta, ID, London, GB, Montreal, CA, and more.
How does AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GB compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 96% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 90% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 79/100 on hardware per dollar, #103 of the 374 plans that include a disk.