Amazon Lightsail vs. Sherweb Performance Cloud, powered by VMware

Amazon Lightsail

Sherweb Performance Cloud, powered by VMware

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Lightsail	Score 9.5 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
Sherweb Performance Cloud, powered by VMware	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	Performance Cloud powered by VMware is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform designed to make it quick and easy to set up a cloud environment and scale applications, from Sherweb in Quebec. Built to support different workloads, disaster recovery and compliance needs, it allows users to have full control of cloud server costs and innovate with market-leading price-to-performance.	N/A

Pricing

Amazon Lightsail

Sherweb Performance Cloud, powered by VMware

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	Sherweb Performance Cloud, powered by VMware
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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	Amazon Lightsail	Sherweb Performance Cloud, powered by VMware

Features

Amazon Lightsail

Sherweb Performance Cloud, powered by VMware

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon Lightsail 8.8 6 Ratings 7% above category average	Sherweb Performance Cloud, powered by VMware - Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	10.06 Ratings	00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	5.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	9.34 Ratings	00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	8.06 Ratings	00 Ratings
Monitoring tools	8.06 Ratings	00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	8.95 Ratings	00 Ratings
Operating system support	10.06 Ratings	00 Ratings
Security controls	10.06 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automation	10.05 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Amazon Lightsail	Sherweb Performance Cloud, powered by VMware
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Medium-sized Companies	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Amazon Lightsail	Sherweb Performance Cloud, powered by VMware
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (6 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Lightsail	Sherweb Performance Cloud, powered by VMware
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	Sherweb No answers on this topic
Pros	Amazon AWS Its provide pre configured Apps and operating system Very easy to use interface and the cost is also very low Integration with other AWS services like route53, S3 etc Incentivized PB Pintu Barman Web Developer Read full review	Sherweb 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	Sherweb No answers on this topic
Usability	Amazon AWS 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. Incentivized PB Pintu Barman Web Developer Read full review	Sherweb 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	Sherweb No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS Hosting a production application on Lightsail will guarantee you a loss Saved lots of time for our prototyping Other VPS providers are better Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Sherweb No answers on this topic
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