Amazon Lightsail vs. DigitalOcean Load Balancers

Amazon Lightsail

DigitalOcean Load Balancers

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
DigitalOcean Load Balancers	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	DigitalOcean's Load Balancers are used to scale applications and improve availability, security, and performance across the user's infrastructure in a few clicks. The Load Balancers are monitored for availability and if any anomalies are detected, DigitalOcean's systems will correct them and fix them. Load Balancers automatically provision and renew SSL certificates free of charge through Let’s Encrypt. Load Balancers also support HTTP/2, providing better performance for users.	$12 per month per node

Pricing

Amazon Lightsail

DigitalOcean Load Balancers

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 Lightsail	DigitalOcean Load Balancers
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Amazon Lightsail	DigitalOcean Load Balancers
Top Pros	Pro Easy to use Pro Virtual machine Pro Easily transfer	No answers on this topic
Top Cons	Minus Customer service Minus Better service Minus Getting stuck	No answers on this topic

Features

Amazon Lightsail

DigitalOcean Load Balancers

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	DigitalOcean Load Balancers - Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	8.95 Ratings	00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	9.04 Ratings	00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	9.34 Ratings	00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	9.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Monitoring tools	8.85 Ratings	00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	8.95 Ratings	00 Ratings
Operating system support	9.65 Ratings	00 Ratings
Security controls	8.95 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automation	9.64 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Amazon Lightsail	DigitalOcean Load Balancers
Small Businesses	Akamai Connected Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10	Akamai Connected Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.4 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.4 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.4 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Amazon Lightsail	DigitalOcean Load Balancers
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Lightsail	DigitalOcean Load Balancers
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	DigitalOcean No answers on this topic
Pros	Amazon AWS static web hosting & non public managments low cost remote access media distribution Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	DigitalOcean No answers on this topic
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	DigitalOcean No answers on this topic
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	DigitalOcean No answers on this topic
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	DigitalOcean No answers on this topic
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