AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C.
Prices checked
AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C costs $6.99 a month for 2 vCPU, 1 GB of RAM and 40 GB SSD, cheaper than 91% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked .
Price
AWS Lightsail
$6.99 per GB of RAM a month
Cheaper than 91% of the 527 plans we track.
Value
hardware per dollar
It ranks #106 of the 374 plans that include a disk.
What you get
- RAM
- 1 GBmore than 1% of plans
- vCPU
- 2 sharedmore than 14% of plans
- Disk
- 40 GB SSDmore than 37% of plans
- Traffic
- 2 TB a month
19 locations
- Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)
- Asia Pacific (Malaysia)
- Dublin, IE
- Europe (Spain)
- Frankfurt, DE
- Jakarta, ID
- London, GB
- Montreal, CA
- Mumbai, IN
- N. Virginia, US
- Ohio, US
- Oregon, US
- Paris, FR
- Seoul, KR
- Singapore, SG
- Stockholm, SE
- Sydney, AU
- São Paulo, BR
- Tokyo, JP
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.
How it scores
Value 79/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.84 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.
- RAM, 1 GB
- 1.0
- vCPU, 2
- 3.0
- Disk, 40 GB SSD
- 1.3
- Traffic, 2 TB
- 0.6
- 5.9 points for $6.99
- 0.84 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.
Similar plans
Plans from other providers with about the same vCPU and RAM, cheapest first. Each percentage is against this plan's $6.99 a month.
Frequently asked
- How much does AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C cost?
- $6.99 a month excl. VAT, which is $6.99 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?
- 2 shared vCPU, 1 GB of RAM, 40 GB SSD of disk and 2 TB of traffic a month.
- Where does AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C 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 compare with other VPS plans?
- It is cheaper than 91% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 33% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 79/100 on hardware per dollar, #106 of the 374 plans that include a disk.