How much does AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C cost?

$43.99 a month excl. VAT, which is $5.50 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, 8 GB of RAM, 160 GB SSD of disk and 5 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 57% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 5% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 42/100 on hardware per dollar, #245 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C.

Prices checked 31 Oct

AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C costs $43.99 a month for 2 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 160 GB SSD, cheaper than 57% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

Bundleshared vCPU

Compare withvs DigitalOcean Basic Premium AMD 2C or any plan

Price

AWS Lightsail

$43.99/mo

$5.50 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 57% of the 527 plans we track.

View at AWS Lightsail

Value

42/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #245 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

Bundleshared vCPU

Compare withvs DigitalOcean Basic Premium AMD 2C or any plan

What you get

RAM: 8 GBmore than 31% of plans
vCPU: 2 sharedmore than 14% of plans
Disk: 160 GB SSDmore than 65% of plans
Traffic: 5 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 42/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.40 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.

RAM, 8 GB: 8.0
vCPU, 2: 3.0
Disk, 160 GB SSD: 5.1
Traffic, 5 TB: 1.5
17.6 points for $43.99: 0.40 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.

Models it can run

The largest two per family that fit 8 GB with room to spare, on its 2 shared vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B, about 1–2.1 tok/s Gemma 3 4B, about 1.8–3.7 tok/s Qwen3 4B, about 2–3.9 tok/s Phi-4-mini 3.8B, about 2.1–4.1 tok/s Llama 3.2 3B, about 2.5–4.9 tok/s Llama 3.2 1B, about 6.4–13 tok/s Gemma 3 1B, about 7.9–16 tok/s

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Frequently asked

How much does AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C cost?: $43.99 a month excl. VAT, which is $5.50 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, 8 GB of RAM, 160 GB SSD of disk and 5 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 57% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 5% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 42/100 on hardware per dollar, #245 of the 374 plans that include a disk.