Amazon Lightsail

Amazon Lightsail

Amazon Lightsail

20 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Lightsail	Score 7.0 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 Lightsail

Editions & Modules

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 Lightsail
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Amazon Lightsail
Considered Both Products	Amazon Lightsail AP Arpit Patel Student Chose Amazon Lightsail Amazon Lightsail is ideal for beginners looking for a low-cost VPS to try out new things. It's especially useful if you're at a hackathon and need a quick way to prototype a quick idea. I would never recommend Lightsail for any kind of production work. In terms of uptime, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Former Employee Chose Amazon Lightsail I believe Lightsail has worse support than DigitalOcean and the pay more for better service model is not great as most customers are trying it for the first time. They are both very fast to set up and get started, but we went with AWS Lightsail because we were familiar with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User C-Level Executive Chose Amazon Lightsail Linode and Digital Ocean are far more reliable than Amazon Lightsail. I would recommend against hosting any production applications in Lightsail. Even for prototyping, I would also suggest using the VPS provider of your choice for your production application because you can … Incentivized Helpful? Sandesh Singh FrontEnd Development Engineer Chose Amazon Lightsail 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 … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Easy to use Pro Virtual machine Pro Easily transfer
Top Cons	Minus Customer service Minus Better service Minus Getting stuck

Features

Amazon Lightsail

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon Lightsail 9.1 5 Ratings 11% above category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	8.95 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	9.04 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	9.34 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	8.95 Ratings
Monitoring tools	8.85 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	8.95 Ratings
Operating system support	9.65 Ratings
Security controls	8.85 Ratings
Automation	9.64 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Amazon Lightsail
Small Businesses	Linode Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Amazon Lightsail
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (5 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Lightsail
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized AP Arpit Patel Student Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS static web hosting & non public managments low cost remote access media distribution Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Amazon AWS slow complex integration to AWS Cloudwatch - complex setup required No IPv6, a big downside less value compared with Linode or Digital Ocean Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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. Incentivized Sandesh Singh FrontEnd Development Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS Saved a lot of time on set up and configuration Saved money on trial period Customer service was less helpful Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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