AWS Lightsail VPS pricing.
Prices checked
AWS Lightsail sells 12 VPS plans from $5 a month, checked .
All 12 AWS Lightsail plans
- 1
2 vCPU · 512 MB · 20 GB SSD
$5/mo - 2
2 vCPU · 1 GB · 40 GB SSD
$6.99/mo - 3
2 vCPU · 2 GB · 60 GB SSD
$11.99/mo - 4
2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD
$23.99/mo - 5
2 vCPU · 4 GB · 160 GB SSD
$42/mo - 6
2 vCPU · 8 GB · 160 GB SSD
$43.99/mo - 7
2 vCPU · 16 GB · 160 GB SSD
$74/mo - 8
4 vCPU · 8 GB · 320 GB SSD
$84/mo - 9
4 vCPU · 16 GB · 320 GB SSD
$84/mo - 10
4 vCPU · 32 GB · 320 GB SSD
$144/mo - 11
8 vCPU · 32 GB · 640 GB SSD
$164/mo - 12
8 vCPU · 16 GB · 640 GB SSD
$168/mo
Where to start
Cheapest and best value
General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GB
2 vCPU · 512 MB · 20 GB SSD
AWS Lightsail
The least you can pay for a AWS Lightsail plan today.
Cheapest with 4 GB
General Purpose 2C
2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD
AWS Lightsail
The least you pay for 4 GB of RAM or more.
Cheapest with 8 GB
General Purpose 2C
2 vCPU · 8 GB · 160 GB SSD
AWS Lightsail
The least you pay for 8 GB of RAM or more.
Locations
19
in 17 countries
Dedicated vCPU
0%
0 of 12 plans
On NVMe
0%
of plans, the rest SSD or HDD
Average value
45/100
hardware per dollar
AWS Lightsail installs WordPress and Node.js in one click from Lightsail blueprints (every provider's apps). Its largest plan, with 32 GB of RAM, runs Qwen3 32B, DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 32B, Gemma 3 27B and Mistral Small 3.2 24B on its own CPU.
Frequently asked
- What is the cheapest AWS Lightsail VPS?
- General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GB at $5 a month excl. VAT, with 2 vCPU, 512 MB of RAM and 20 GB SSD of disk, checked 31 Oct 2026.
- Is AWS Lightsail good value compared with other providers?
- A GB of RAM costs $6 a month at AWS Lightsail in a typical plan, 14% more than the $5.25 typical across the 25 providers we track. Its best plan, General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GB, scores Value 79/100 on hardware per dollar.
- How current are these AWS Lightsail prices?
- We read them from AWS Lightsail's own site every 3 days; the reading on this page is from 31 Oct 2026. Prices exclude VAT and are converted to US dollars at ECB rates.
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