Amazon Lightsail

Amazon Lightsail

Amazon Lightsail

21 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Lightsail	Score 9.1 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 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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Community Pulse
	Amazon Lightsail
Considered Both Products	Amazon Lightsail PB Pintu Barman Web Developer Chose Amazon Lightsail The only reason to shift from Liquid Web to Amazon Lightsail is the cost. Amazon Lightsail's cost is very low as compared to Liquid Web. Incentivized Helpful? 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?

Features

Amazon Lightsail

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon Lightsail 8.8 6 Ratings 7% above category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	10.06 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	5.05 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	9.34 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	8.06 Ratings
Monitoring tools	8.06 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	8.95 Ratings
Operating system support	10.06 Ratings
Security controls	10.06 Ratings
Automation	10.05 Ratings

Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 9.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Amazon Lightsail
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (6 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (1 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 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 Incentivized PB Pintu Barman Web Developer 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
Usability	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. Incentivized PB Pintu Barman Web Developer 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 Hosting a production application on Lightsail will guarantee you a loss Saved lots of time for our prototyping Other VPS providers are better Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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