Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) vs. Amazon Lightsail

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) from AWS is designed for application workloads that benefit from fine tuning for performance, cost and capacity. Typical use cases include Big Data analytics engines (like the Hadoop/HDFS ecosystem and Amazon EMR clusters), relational and NoSQL databases (like Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL or Cassandra and MongoDB), stream and log processing applications (like Kafka and Splunk), and data warehousing applications (like Vertica and Teradata).N/A
Amazon Lightsail
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
Amazon Lightsail is a virtual private server (VPS) designed to present an easy-to-use cloud platform that offers everything needed to build an application or website, plus a cost-effective, monthly plan.
$3.50
per month
Pricing
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Amazon Lightsail
Editions & Modules
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512 MB Linux
$3.50
per month
1 GB Linux
$5.00
per month
2 GB Linux
$10.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Amazon Lightsail
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
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Ratings
Amazon Lightsail
8.8
6 Ratings
7% above category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Dynamic scaling00 Ratings5.05 Ratings
Elastic load balancing00 Ratings9.34 Ratings
Pre-configured templates00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Monitoring tools00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
Operating system support00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Security controls00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Automation00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Amazon Lightsail
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(20 ratings)
10.0
(6 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Amazon Lightsail
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
It provides the optimized storage performance and cost for your workload and these options really work with SSD-backed storage and it improves the database performance. Keeping backups of your EC2 resources, including EBS volumes is a little bit tricky and its takes some more time and increase through put is also a tiring job to do.
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Amazon AWS
We utilized Amazon Lightsail to get a web application proof of concept up and running. It's easy to set up, requires minimal configuration, and lets us to concentrate on the coding. It's designed to help you get started fast and easily, but it's not designed for corporate applications or workloads.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Raw storage capacity attached to your instance operative system
  • Frequent data rewriting (mission critical for reporting)
  • Low latency connectivity (14 reporting subsidiaries in different time zones)
  • Videly spreaded for implementation
  • Fast accessible drive
  • Block storage are core for Java, Net mobile applications
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Amazon AWS
  • Its provide pre configured Apps and operating system
  • Very easy to use interface and the cost is also very low
  • Integration with other AWS services like route53, S3 etc
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Creating too much EBS can be disaster if you are not properly organized by tags
  • In terms of pricing it's a bit on higher side.
  • In terms of performance, there is room for improvement as sometimes reading or saving the data can be painful.
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Amazon AWS
  • slow
  • complex integration to AWS Cloudwatch - complex setup required
  • No IPv6, a big downside
  • less value compared with Linode or Digital Ocean
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Usability
Amazon AWS
Amazon EBS is a great tool and fairly easy to use as long as you are familiar with the Amazon Web Service ecosystem. It allows a great way for you to move storage around easily and allows you to quickly provision storage as needed based on the business requirement. For us, it's easy to move between our EC2 images that had been linked with EBS storage between these Amazon accounts.
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Amazon AWS
My overall experience with Amazon Lightsail is very good, and the online community of Lightsail users is very large and its helps to resolve any kind of issue i faced on my server. I also like the integration of other AWS services with Amazon Lightsail like we can export our Lightsail instance into ec2 server using snapshots.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
The support for Amazon Elastic Block Store is great as long as you can articulate your needs. Like most tools, there may be some back and forth before you find a support person that is knowledgable in the tool and can provide you with necessary insights.
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Amazon AWS
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
So far I have only used Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Azure but comparatively [I] prefer AWS elastic Block store as its having more advantages than Azure and I found it quite satisfactory and it helped a lot for information storage. We are not looking for any other hosting provider at this time.
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Amazon AWS
Amazon Lightsail is a great platform. Before we started using it, we were using AWS EC2 instances as our primary servers after being dissatisfied with other providers. After Amazon Lightsail's introduction, we were able to reduce our operating costs, improve our quality assurance tasks, and provide much more efficient and better apps with our microservices architecture.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • When your application needs high IOPS storage, this is a great solution that will keep your business functioning.
  • Without Amazon Elastic Block Store you could try spreading your data across several standard drives, but that introduces complexity and still has IOPS limits.
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Amazon AWS
  • Hosting a production application on Lightsail will guarantee you a loss
  • Saved lots of time for our prototyping
  • Other VPS providers are better
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