[MaBu]

There are benchmarks on on VPSbenchmarks: http://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/posts/amazon_lightsail_1gb_is_n...

I'm not sure how reliable they are but if they are this doesn't seem good for AWS:

  >TLDR: Amazon Lightsail 1GB will melt down with less than 15% sustained cpu usage
  >
  >Okay then, experiment aborted. 25% sustained cpu usage is too much, all other VPS at the same price can handle that but maybe we're just over the limit, we moved traffic to another machine and let the Lightsail VM cool down for a few hours.
  >It should be noted that for $7, Vpsdime easily handles that traffic.
  >For less than $4, OVH "VPS SSD 1" can do the same.

[tyingq]

It will be interesting to see if Amazon changes that. I can see how it happened in the first place...basically reusing the same setup they use for a t2.micro.

If they leave it as-is, I can imagine anyone using it for something non-trivial being highly disappointed.