Amazon Lightsail vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Likelihood to Recommend

1. It's highly recommended for users who are looking to build their own VPN service2. Amazon Lightsail provides plenty of outgoing data for any use case (e.g., a $3.50 plan provides 500GB of outgoing data)3. Can be used to deploy containerized applications that require scaling4. Plans ranging from $3.50 to $160 a month, which is awesome

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Sandesh Singh

FrontEnd Development Engineer

Genius Systems Pvt. LtdInternet, 201-500 employees

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a fantastic product for most Oracle environments. As far as I know, it supports almost all of the Oracle environments. The only scenarios I could think of where it would be less appropriate to use this product would be if you have an Oracle environment that is outdated by quite a few versions, or if you couldn't afford migrating to OCI.

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon Lightsail

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

Dynamic scaling

Elastic load balancing

Pre-configured templates

Monitoring tools

Pre-defined machine images

Operating system support

Security controls

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

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FrontEnd Development Engineer

Genius Systems Pvt. LtdInternet, 201-500 employees

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Block Volume provides durability and stability to data. IOPS can be changed on the fly. Always stay true to the promised performance.
Block Volume can be encrypted with ease to meet compliance. Can also be easily integrated with OCI vault service for extra security.
Object Storage and File Storage are other forms of storage that are secure and extremely easy to configure. FSS is one of the best in the industry when it comes to reliability and performance.
SSD block volumes are persistent in OCI unlike many other clouds.

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Cons

Very little documentation
Fewer support options in Amazon Lightsail
They only allow one adjustment and force you to terminate the instance that caused the issue before adjusting
Be aware of your usage in AWS
Always check for any extra unwanted bills

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Sandesh Singh

FrontEnd Development Engineer

Genius Systems Pvt. LtdInternet, 201-500 employees

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) is a fully managed service that makes it a little hard sometimes to fine tune HPC workloads, for example AI/Deep learning training where a lot of data transfer and compute is needed.
The initial setup can certainly be improved with less steps to make it faster and easier to deploy compared to the competition, for example Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
Documentation and best practice documentation for OKE can be improved especially since there are not a lot of customer references available for large scale deployments that need fine tuned performance.

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Likelihood to Renew

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 10.0

Based on 2 answers

Very likely. Our business solely relies on OCI

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Usability

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 9.0

Based on 2 answers

doesn't have a mobile version

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Adriana Grama

Junior Assistant Developer

Technology Network ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Reliability and Availability

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 9.0

Based on 1 answer

highly available.

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Performance

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 8.0

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good performance . good integration.

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Support Rating

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 8.0

Based on 1 answer

Good rating. Always advancing.

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Online Training

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 6.0

Based on 1 answer

detailed and easy to understand.

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Implementation Rating

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 7.0

Based on 1 answer

Easy to implement.Easy to navigate

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Alternatives Considered

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.

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Sandesh Singh

FrontEnd Development Engineer

Genius Systems Pvt. LtdInternet, 201-500 employees

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The main thing we discussed while we Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is [that] we can use/integrate other Oracle products like Oracle Infrastructure storage [and] Infrastructure networking. To be simple, it support[s] all Oracle services, which make the process more reliable in the production environment. Oracle also stacks up against other as it has lesser billing rate as compared with other vendor.

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Scalability

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 7.0

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useful product.

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Return on Investment

Highly efficient for our microservices architecture
Price to performance
Scalability
Adjustments for unwanted bills or charges
Wide selection of services entice you to use Amazon Lightsail
Able to deploy web apps to a full infrastructure.

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Sandesh Singh

FrontEnd Development Engineer

Genius Systems Pvt. LtdInternet, 201-500 employees

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We have been able to test at low scale complex solutions using OCI
The Free Tier option can be used to test easy of configuration and deployment
Since pricing is in U.S. Dollars, it can be a problem in countries with less stable currencies

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Lisandro Fernigrini

Database Practice Leader

Kapsch TrafficcomInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Amazon Lightsail Editions & Modules

Edition

512 MB Linux	$3.50¹
1 GB Linux	$5.00¹
2 GB Linux	$10.00¹

Per Month

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is built for enterprises looking for higher performance, consistently lower costs, and easier cloud migration for their existing on-premises applications. OCI is consistently less expensive than AWS for a wide range of popular cloud workloads for several reasons: (1) in the area of networking, charges for outbound bandwidth are 74% less expensive than AWS, (2) for compute, Oracle delivers > 2X better price/performance over AWS for general purpose and memory-optimized instances. (3) for HPC workloads, AWS provides similar performance to Oracle, but is 44% more expensive and provides no local SSDs, half the RAM, no RDMS networking, and no performance SLA, and (4) for block storage, OCI offers as much as 20X the IOPS performance of AWS for less than half the cost. Check out these links to learn more: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/economics/ https://www.oracle.com/webfolder/workload-estimator/index.html

Rating Summary

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