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Amazon Lightsail vs. IBM Cloud Internet Services

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
IBM Cloud Internet Services
Score 9.8 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
IBM Cloud Internet Services is a set of edge network services for securing internet-facing applications from DDoS attacks, data theft, and bot attacks, as well as optimizing their web apps or ensuring global responsiveness and the ongoing availability of their internet-facing applications.
$275
per month, per domain
Pricing
Amazon LightsailIBM Cloud Internet Services
Editions & Modules
512 MB Linux
$3.50
per month
1 GB Linux
$5.00
per month
2 GB Linux
$10.00
per month
IBM Cloud Internet Services - Standard
$275.00
per month, per domain
IBM Cloud Internet Services - Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon LightsailIBM Cloud Internet Services
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Amazon LightsailIBM Cloud Internet Services
Considered Both Products
Amazon Lightsail
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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 …
IBM Cloud Internet Services
Alexandre Carvalho | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alexandre Carvalho
Senior Technical Support Engineer
Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services
IBM Cloud difference is the ability to use PPC hardware and to use IBM I operating system. Other cloud providers have a better interface and features for regular unix/windows vms.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services
I have used Salesforce to explore it as an app but I have found them both able to solve my needs and requirements when it comes to security. While I choose IBM Cloud Internet Services for more accessibility, a better price was available with Saleforce. Although that is just my …
Ramindu Deshapriya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ramindu Deshapriya
Lead Consultant - Technology
Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services
IBM Cloud Internet Services is the best service to use to ensure security, performance and reliability of applications deployed to IBM Cloud, as it is a service that provides in-built solutions for IBM Cloud Foundry applications. It also provides a great deal of pre-configured …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services
Another option we looked into was Cloudflare, but we ended up with IBM Cloud Internet services mostly because of the intuitive interface and reliable customer support center.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services
IBM Cloud Internet Services edged out Cisco solutions in terms of quality of user experience and need to have flexibility in parameterizing the solution in global organization. Amazon cloud solutions are comparable to IBM solutions.
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Telmo Salazar
Gerente Tecnologías de la Información
Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services
Barracuda Web Filter is used to limit internet access to certain websites. This is a great tool with an easy to use interface that you can log into to monitor web browsing activities from your end user.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services
They are IBM products that my engineers ramp up on in terms of skills
Features
Amazon LightsailIBM Cloud Internet Services
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Lightsail
8.8
Ratings
6% above category average
IBM Cloud Internet Services
-
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
Best Alternatives
Amazon LightsailIBM Cloud Internet Services
Small Businesses
DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets
Score 9.7 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI
Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprises
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI
Score 8.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon LightsailIBM Cloud Internet Services
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(0 ratings)
7.5
(0 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(0 ratings)
6.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon LightsailIBM Cloud Internet Services
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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In terms of business challenges, it simplifies the job of my engineers and significantly increases the productivity of my teams when they collaborate with IBM teams all over the world. Now that we have completed a proof-of-concept using the services supplied by IBM, we expect it to assist us in managing them more efficiently; thus far, management has been straightforward.
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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  • build servers in Power PC architecture (ppc)
  • take advantage of IBM datacenters infrastructure around the world
  • continue to use your apps running on AIX
Alexandre Carvalho | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alexandre Carvalho
Senior Technical Support Engineer
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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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  • Request proxying is done by way of DNS name resolution, which is inflexible.
  • Proxy services do not work on wildcard DNS entries.
Verified User
Anonymous
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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.
PB
Pintu Barman
Web Developer
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I have seen faster and more user friendly interfaces like Azure
Alexandre Carvalho | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alexandre Carvalho
Senior Technical Support Engineer
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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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I have used Salesforce to explore it as an app but I have found them both able to solve my needs and requirements when it comes to security. While I choose IBM Cloud Internet Services for more accessibility, a better price was available with Saleforce. Although that is just my observation.
Verified User
Anonymous
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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
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Anonymous
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  • Reduced security configuration time for Internet of Things applications by more than 50%
  • Provided better security incident SLA for CouchDB databases via IBM Cloudant
  • Reduced security verification time for CloudFoundry applications by ~15%
Ramindu Deshapriya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ramindu Deshapriya
Lead Consultant - Technology
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