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Amazon Lightsail vs. AWS Auto Scaling

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
AWS Auto Scaling
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
AWS Auto Scaling monitors applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. The vendor states that using AWS Auto Scaling, it’s easy to setup application scaling for multiple resources across multiple services in minutes.N/A
Pricing
Amazon LightsailAWS Auto Scaling
Editions & Modules
512 MB Linux
$3.50
per month
1 GB Linux
$5.00
per month
2 GB Linux
$10.00
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon LightsailAWS Auto Scaling
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
Amazon LightsailAWS Auto Scaling
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
AWS Auto Scaling
-
Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling5.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing9.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring tools8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images8.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Operating system support10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Security controls10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Automation10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Amazon LightsailAWS Auto Scaling
Small Businesses
DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets
Score 9.4 out of 10
NGINX
NGINX
Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
NGINX
NGINX
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
NGINX
NGINX
Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon LightsailAWS Auto Scaling
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(6 ratings)
8.8
(5 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon LightsailAWS Auto Scaling
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.
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Amazon AWS
It is well suited for scaling up our cloud virtual machines to handle the increase or decrease in workload. It really helps us to satisfy the demand because it doesn't take lot of time to spin up new machines. If there is unpredictability in the demand it is very useful. But it is a over kill if demand is consistent.
Verified User
Anonymous
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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
PB
Pintu Barman
Web Developer
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Amazon AWS
  • Set policies to add more instances when CPU utilization exceeds.
  • Prevents downtime, as we don't need to stop the servers.
  • Auto Scaling group can be setup for different types of apps.
Verified User
Anonymous
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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
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Anonymous
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Amazon AWS
  • Update code and configuration when the number of servers is always changing
  • How will user-uploaded content make it to new servers
Seshu Giri | TrustRadius Reviewer
Seshu Giri
Senior Data Scientist
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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.
PB
Pintu Barman
Web Developer
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Amazon AWS
We use AWS auto scaling for scaling up our cloud virtual machines to handle the increase or decrease in workload. It really helps us to satisfy the demand because it doesn't take lot of time to spin up new machines. I gave the rating 10 because it really does help you to handle the sudden spike in number of requests.
Verified User
Anonymous
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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.
Sandesh Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sandesh Singh
FrontEnd Development Engineer
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Amazon AWS
Used for the below reasons:
  • Easy to implement and use
  • Pay per use, cost savings
  • Automate and build scaling plans
  • Automate performance and workload
Verified User
Anonymous
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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
Verified User
Anonymous
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Amazon AWS
  • optimized the cost effectiveness
  • save lot of money which help the organization to use it in effective areas
  • Not applicable for all use cases.It is specific use cases and business problems
Verified User
Anonymous
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