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Amazon Lightsail vs. Azure Managed Disks

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Lightsail
Score 9.6 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
Azure Managed Disks
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft's Managed Disks service on Azure are the company's recommended disk storage offering for use with Azure virtual machines for persistent storage of data.N/A
Pricing
Amazon LightsailAzure Managed Disks
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 LightsailAzure Managed Disks
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Amazon LightsailAzure Managed Disks
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.
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, …
Verified User
Anonymous
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 …
Verified User
Anonymous
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 …
Sandesh Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
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 …
Azure Managed Disks
Rao Tahir | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rao Tahir
DotNet Project Manager
Chose Azure Managed Disks
We have been using miscrosoft products from the start so it was quite natural to go with Azure Managed Disks as it would be very easy to integrate with other products that we have in use and obviously the knowledge most of our engineeirs have also played a big part it, so we …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Azure Managed Disks
MS Azure managed disks are easy to manage and implement compared to other cloud storage / disks. It is functional for a lot of apps to create data bases and support new apps without configuring for 3rd party platforms. This is almost impossible with other services that provide …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Azure Managed Disks
Azure Managed Disks comes with rich security features that includes encryption capabilities. Accessing, managing and transfering data is easy, which was a big advantage for our clients' final decision to choose it compared to other competitors.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Azure Managed Disks
Azure has a longer history of capabilities and service. On an institutional basis the product has served our back office at a higher level than we perceived with GA.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Azure Managed Disks
Since we are using many Microsoft Products, Azure Managed Disk was a better option. I have used Google Cloud Persistent Disk in a different company and it was equally good.
Kimberly Brooke | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kimberly Brooke
Marketing Analyst
Chose Azure Managed Disks
Azure Managed Disks is the most effective data storage platform that has given us the most reliable services in our company. It enhances data security and data backup plans that contribute to better workflow infrastructure. It gives us hope of our continuity in case of any lost …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Azure Managed Disks
It is a cleaner setup since we are already bought into the Microsoft Infrastructure. Without the ecosystem they have built at Microsoft, we would not have such a seamless experience. While AWS is simpler to use, it is not set in the same model as how the Azure system is built …
Kyle Kochtan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kyle Kochtan
Application Development Manager
Chose Azure Managed Disks
Azure Managed Disks stacked up very well against Amazon Elastic Block Store. In the End it really came down to the fact we are running numerous other Microsoft Azure products and Azure Managed Disks would fit nicely into that ecosystem. We had less ramp up for training and …
Features
Amazon LightsailAzure Managed Disks
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Lightsail
8.8
Ratings
7% above category average
Azure Managed Disks
-
Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring tools8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Operating system support10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Security controls10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automation10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.6 out of 10
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Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
SAP on IBM Cloud
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Score 8.3 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon LightsailAzure Managed Disks
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon LightsailAzure Managed Disks
Likelihood to Recommend
It is best suited for the small applications which do not need much CPU powers to executes tasks and when integration with other AWS services but it is less suited for the applications which need very frequent auto scaling for the performance purpose, as AWS Lightsail did not support system downgrading so not recommend to use in this case.
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Pintu Barman
Web Developer
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Virtual Machines: Managed Disks are the recommended storage option for Azure Virtual Machines Backup and Disaster Recovery: Although more expensive than Blob storage, Managed Disks can be used as the storage target for Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery where high performance is a requirement. High-performance workloads: Managed Disks can be used for other high-performance workloads such as databases
Verified User
Anonymous
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Pros
  • Value instances packages
  • Better organized UI
  • Easy billing resulting in higher efficiency
  • Cheaper than competition
  • Better support staff
  • Can adjust for any bills you may have incurred by accident
Sandesh Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sandesh Singh
FrontEnd Development Engineer
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  • Redundancy and high availability is best in class
  • The ability to manage this in one central place and the Azure ecosystem integration is great.
  • Infrastructure as code and the ability to manage and maintain has become best in class.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Cons
  • Lack of flexibility in terms of configuration
  • Customer service tiers - have to pay more for better service
  • Usage not shown in obvious place
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • High pricing can be midified to make it more feasable for the community.
  • A handful number of UI settings can be changed from complex to normal.
Rao Tahir | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rao Tahir
DotNet Project Manager
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Usability
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.
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Pintu Barman
Web Developer
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Alternatives Considered
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, Lightsail has proved unreliable. Occasionally, the instance will simply crash or reboot at random. Without warning, Amazon will perform maintenance on your Lightsail instance. Lightsail's networking is likewise lacking, with no support for IPv6.
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We have been using miscrosoft products from the start so it was quite natural to go with Azure Managed Disks as it would be very easy to integrate with other products that we have in use and obviously the knowledge most of our engineeirs have also played a big part it, so we prefferd Azure Managed Disks
Rao Tahir | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rao Tahir
DotNet Project Manager
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • Instantaneous trading updates often leads to additional transactions. Revenue stream increases with knowledge of an execution
  • Quick payment feature reduces float time and compliance concerns in receiving funds
  • Cloud and networking capabilities allow team members to be more responsive and productive with the access of data.
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Anonymous
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