General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GB
Bundle
Price
$5/mo
$0.0067/hour
$10 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 98% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 512 MB> 0% of offers
- vCPU
- 2 shared> 10% of offers
- Disk
- 20 GB SSD> 24% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 1 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
85/100
Percentile of RAM, vCPU, disk and bandwidth per dollar across all 280 tracked offers. Higher = 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 5 Sept 2026
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Where this sits in the market
At $5/mo, General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GB is cheaper than 98% of the 280 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 512 MB of RAM at $10/GB — 67% above the $6/GB market median. Its value score of 85/100 ranks it #43 overall, and it is the 1st cheapest of AWS Lightsail's 12 tracked plans.