AWS LightsailGeneral Purpose 2C · 2 GB
Bundle
AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C costs $11.99/mo for 2 vCPU, 2 GB of RAM and 60 GB SSD, cheaper than 85% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$11.99/mo
$0.0161/hour
$6 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 85% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 2 GB> 6% of offers
- vCPU
- 2 shared> 14% of offers
- Disk
- 60 GB SSD> 45% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 3 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
73/100
- RAM · 2 GB
- 2.0
- vCPU · 2
- 3.0
- Disk · 60 GB SSD
- 1.9
- Traffic · 3 TB
- 0.9
- 7.8 points ÷ $11.99
- 0.65 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 0.65 points per dollar against the 524 tracked VPS plans, whose median is 0.43. A higher score means more machine for the money.
Regions · 19
- 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
Data provenance
AWS Lightsail · AWS public price list · pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (AmazonLightsail)
Fetched 16 Sept 2026
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Where this sits in the market
At $11.99/mo, General Purpose 2C · 2 GB is cheaper than 85% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 2 GB of RAM at $6/GB, 11% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 73/100 ranks it #133 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 3rd cheapest of AWS Lightsail's 12 tracked plans.
