Aruba Cloud vs AWS Lightsail.

vps pricing compared · prices as of 16 Sept 2026

On today's data, Aruba Cloud undercuts AWS Lightsail on memory pricing, with a median RAM price of $1.76/GB against $6/GB. The cheapest way in is Aruba Cloud at $2.87/mo (VPS O1I1 · 1 vCPU · 1 GB). AWS Lightsail counters with broader reach: 19 locations vs 1.

At 4 GB of RAM the cheaper of the two is Aruba Cloud VPS O2A4 at $7.26/mo, against AWS Lightsail at $23.99/mo, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Aruba Cloudall plans →

• Cheapest

  VPS O1I1 · 1 vCPU · 1 GB

  1 vCPU · 1 GB · 20 GB NVMe

  $2.87/moView at Aruba Cloud ↗
• Best value

  VPS O2A4 · 2 vCPU · 4 GB

  2 vCPU · 4 GB · 40 GB NVMe

  $7.26/moView at Aruba Cloud ↗

AWS Lightsailall plans →

• Cheapest · best value

  General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GB

  2 vCPU · 512 MB · 20 GB SSD

  $5/moView at AWS Lightsail ↗

compare the two best-value plans side by side →

MetricAruba CloudAWS Lightsail

Plans tracked612

Cheapest plan$2.87/mo$5/mo

Median $/GB RAM$1.76/GB$6/GB

Avg value score90/10047/100

Locations119

Dedicated-vCPU plans00

NVMe share100%0%

Unmetered bandwidth0% of plans0% of plans

Cheapest plan at each RAM tier

≥ 2 GB RAM

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Aruba Cloudwins

VPS O1I2 · 1 vCPU · 2 GB

1 vCPU · 2 GB · 40 GB NVMe · $5.18/mo

AWS Lightsail

General Purpose 2C · 2 GB

2 vCPU · 2 GB · 60 GB SSD · $11.99/mo

≥ 4 GB RAM

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Aruba Cloudwins

VPS O2A4 · 2 vCPU · 4 GB

2 vCPU · 4 GB · 40 GB NVMe · $7.26/mo

AWS Lightsail

General Purpose 2C · 4 GB

2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD · $23.99/mo

≥ 8 GB RAM

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Aruba Cloudwins

VPS O4A8 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB

4 vCPU · 8 GB · 80 GB NVMe · $13.60/mo

AWS Lightsail

General Purpose 2C · 8 GB

2 vCPU · 8 GB · 160 GB SSD · $43.99/mo

Top value plans from each

Aruba Cloud

• VPS O2A4 · 2 vCPU · 4 GBvalue 94/100$7.26
• VPS O8A16 · 8 vCPU · 16 GBvalue 92/100$22.95
• VPS O4A8 · 4 vCPU · 8 GBvalue 91/100$13.60
• VPS O16A32 · 16 vCPU · 32 GBvalue 91/100$44.89
• VPS O1I1 · 1 vCPU · 1 GBvalue 87/100$2.87

AWS Lightsail

• General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GBvalue 80/100$5
• General Purpose 2C · 1 GBvalue 79/100$6.99
• General Purpose 2C · 2 GBvalue 73/100$11.99
• General Purpose 2C · 4 GBvalue 54/100$23.99
• General Purpose 2C · 8 GBvalue 45/100$43.99

Prices exclude VAT, fetched 16 Sept 2026 from each provider's own API or public price page. Aruba Cloud data: Live web · Cloud VPS OpenStack price table on arubacloud.com (EUR + VAT, IPv4 rows). AWS Lightsail data: AWS public price list · pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (AmazonLightsail).