Amazon FSx vs. Amazon Lightsail

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon FSx
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Amazon FSx is a cloud storage service designed to make it easy and cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a range of workloads boasting reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. As a fully managed service, it handles hardware provisioning, patching, and backups, and supports four widely-used file systems: NetApp ONTAP, OpenZFS, Windows File Server, and Lustre.N/A
Amazon Lightsail
Score 7.1 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 FSxAmazon 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 FSxAmazon 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
Amazon FSxAmazon Lightsail
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Amazon FSx
8.0
1 Ratings
5% below category average
Amazon Lightsail
-
Ratings
Versioning8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Video files6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Audio files6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Document collaboration10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Access control10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
File search8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Device sync8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
Amazon FSx
10.0
1 Ratings
15% above category average
Amazon Lightsail
-
Ratings
User and role management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
File organization10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Device management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Storage Platform
Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
Amazon FSx
10.0
1 Ratings
16% above category average
Amazon Lightsail
-
Ratings
Performance10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Reliability10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Storage Reports10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Amazon FSx
-
Ratings
Amazon Lightsail
9.1
5 Ratings
11% above category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
Dynamic scaling00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Elastic load balancing00 Ratings9.34 Ratings
Pre-configured templates00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
Monitoring tools00 Ratings8.85 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
Operating system support00 Ratings9.65 Ratings
Security controls00 Ratings8.85 Ratings
Automation00 Ratings9.64 Ratings
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Amazon FSxAmazon Lightsail
Small Businesses
SugarSync
SugarSync
Score 10.0 out of 10
Linode
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Score 9.6 out of 10
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Score 9.6 out of 10
SAP on IBM Cloud
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon FSxAmazon Lightsail
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
(2 ratings)
9.7
(5 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon FSxAmazon Lightsail
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
- For any enterprise-grade storage, this is the best option. - EDA workloads are very strong with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and NetApp's FlexCache technologies. - Random read workloads such as OLTP are awesome on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. - File Services are the best in class on FSxN. - DR sites from ONTAP on-premises are amazing.
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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
  • Enterprise grade unified storage in the cloud
  • Multiprotocol access
  • PV for EKS
  • Data mobility
  • Data security
  • Integration with NetApp Cloud Manager
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Amazon AWS
  • static web hosting & non public managments
  • low cost remote access
  • media distribution
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Data Protection from AWS console
  • Advance Matrix
  • FlexGroups creating as part of AWS console
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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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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
I have not worked with other reliable and powerful platform that is as reliable as this product. This platform has given us room to concentrate on more productive activities leaving our data under a safe system. It automates file transfer and saves time in uploading documents across all team members. It interlinks all our applications systems to enhance teamwork and increase production.
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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
  • It improved our TCO by optimizing storage costs between SSDs and S3
  • It speeded our TTM with speedy deployment and orchestration
  • It removed needed expertise from our engineers
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Amazon AWS
  • Saved a lot of time on set up and configuration
  • Saved money on trial period
  • Customer service was less helpful
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