AWS Lightsail

General Purpose 2C · 1 GB

Bundle

AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C costs $6.99/mo for 2 vCPU, 1 GB of RAM and 40 GB SSD, cheaper than 92% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Price

$6.99/mo

$0.0094/hour

$6.99 per GB RAM

Cheaper than 92% of tracked offers

Specs vs the whole index

RAM
1 GB> 1% of offers
vCPU
2 shared> 14% of offers
Disk
40 GB SSD> 37% of offers
Bandwidth
2 TB/mo

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.

Value score

79/100

RAM · 1 GB
1.0
vCPU · 2
3.0
Disk · 40 GB SSD
1.3
Traffic · 2 TB
0.6
5.9 points ÷ $6.99
0.84 per $

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.

The score ranks 0.84 points per dollar against the 524 tracked VPS plans, whose median is 0.43. A higher score means more machine for the money.

Data provenance

AWS Lightsail · AWS public price list · pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (AmazonLightsail)

Fetched 16 Sept 2026

Prices exclude VAT. Always confirm on the provider's site.

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Where this sits in the market

At $6.99/mo, General Purpose 2C · 1 GB is cheaper than 92% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 1 GB of RAM at $6.99/GB, 29% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 79/100 ranks it #103 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 2nd cheapest of AWS Lightsail's 12 tracked plans.

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