Amazon Lightsail vs. Azure Bastion

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

It is the best suited to access your Azure VM's fast, secure and with a reliable connection. It may be less suitable then and RDP connection in case you need more customization with your networking especcially with your subnets. Also copy paste feature can be a limitation.

Incentivized

• static web hosting & non public managments
• low cost remote access
• media distribution

Incentivized

• Fast browser based connection
• Secure and Reliable
• Ease of use

Incentivized

• slow
• complex integration to AWS Cloudwatch - complex setup required
• No IPv6, a big downside
• less value compared with Linode or Digital Ocean

Incentivized

• Flexibility in copy paste feature (resticts it)
• More control during the boot of VMs

Incentivized

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

Bastion is like one of the best feature of Azure portal as it enables a very easy browser based connection to your VM's in your Azure subscription. It is easier and faster to use RDP .

Incentivized

• Saved a lot of time on set up and configuration
• Saved money on trial period
• Customer service was less helpful

Incentivized

• Very positive as it enabled our admins to connect to servers of our clients from any devices
• Security and speed
• Copy Paste needs to be solved

Incentivized