Amazon Lightsail vs. eApps

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 may be good for a big site with a lot of traffic, but there are so many better sites if you don't have huge traffic.

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

Incentivized

• Eapps support is very good. We can always call and speak to a tech support technician 24 hours a day. They are also very knowledgable.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

• They did nothing to try and save me money. [I feel] the price was ridiculously high for what I needed.

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

Eapps is a cheaper alternative to AWS and Rackspace.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

• Uptime is critical for my business. Recently we had some issues with uptime, but they were resolved rather quickly.

Incentivized