Lightsail a saver
I use Amazon Lightsail for most of my projects which are web based. The organization that I use to work for in the past uses it for the …
Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Lightsail
Starting at $3.50 per month
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Popular Features
View all 9 featuresPre-configured templates (5)
8.7
87%
Pre-defined machine images (5)
8.5
85%
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime (5)
7.7
77%
Monitoring tools (5)
7.5
75%
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View all pricing512 MB Linux
$3.50
Cloud
per month
1 GB Linux
$5.00
Cloud
per month
2 GB Linux
$10.00
Cloud
per month
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting / Integration Services
Features Scorecard
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
8.6
86%
Product Details
What is Amazon Lightsail?
Amazon Lightsail is a virtual private server (VPS) that supports a number of different use cases:
Simple web applications
Deploy a web application with pre-configured development stacks like LAMP, Nginx, MEAN, and Node.js.
Websites
Create and customize a blog, e-commerce, or personal website with Lightsail's pre-configured applications like WordPress, Magento, Plesk, and Joomla.
Business software
Run open source and commercial software, as Lightsail helps launch a line-of-business software, like file storage and sharing, backups, financial and accounting software.
Dev/test environments
Spin up a developer or test environment. Creating dev sandboxes and testing environments outside of production environments lets users test without the concern of breaking something.
Lightsail automatically configures networking, access, and security environments. Lightsail plans include a static IP address, DNS management, resource monitoring and alerting, remote access via SSH or RDP, and secure key management.
Lightsail automatically configures networking, access, and security environments. Lightsail plans include a static IP address, DNS management, resource monitoring and alerting, remote access via SSH or RDP, and secure key management.
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Amazon Lightsail Technical Details
| Deployment Types | SaaS |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Amazon Lightsail?
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.
What is Amazon Lightsail's best feature?
Reviewers rate Operating system support highest, with a score of 9.4.
Who uses Amazon Lightsail?
The most common users of Amazon Lightsail are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees) and the Computer Software industry.
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March 14, 2022
Lightsail a saver
I use Amazon Lightsail for most of my projects which are web based. The organization that I use to work for in the past uses it for the employee which makes the task easy for them and it boost up the process of development. It is very easy to setup with minimal configuration.
- Predictable billing
- Intuitive UI/UX
- ease of use
- Customer service tiers - have to pay more for better service
- Usage not shown in obvious place
March 08, 2022
Low Cost But High Stability for Small Loads
For standalone showcase and any other static web contents, we and the customers use AWS Lightsail as a low cost solution.The low cost, very stable , scalable services and easy managment service is the best option for small business and small web hosting application. With the bundled ec2 instance, no need to care the traffic cost and the segmented start-up , It gives the ability which customers can run applications without our support.
- static web hosting & non public managments
- low cost remote access
- media distribution
- more powerful or burst more instances
- low cost container services
February 28, 2022
Sailing easy on Lightsail - easy setup
We used Amazon Lightsail to get a proof of concept project up running for a web application. It is very simple to set up, minimal configuration, and allows us to focus on the code. It is meant for getting started quickly, with minimal hassle but not for enterprise applications and workloads.
- Documentation
- Pay as you go
- Easy to set up
- Lack of flexibility in terms of configuration
- Customer service tiers - have to pay more for better service
- Usage not shown in obvious place
September 14, 2021
Stay away from Lightsail
We use a Amazon Lightsail as a simple VPS provider as an alternative to Linode or Digital Ocean. Our systems hosted on Lightsail include apache websites, NodeJS applications, Python Flask applications as well as databases. Amazon lightsail is actually preconfigured EC2 instances and we use Lightsail instead of EC2 for its simplicity. The services provided by Lightsail is actually just a VPS - however, you need some AWS knowledge to be able to set up system metrics monitoring.
- simple
- easy to use
- slow
- complex integration to AWS Cloudwatch - complex setup required
- No IPv6, a big downside
- less value compared with Linode or Digital Ocean
May 03, 2021
The must-have service provider for startups
Amazon Lightsail is a powerful service, and with the launch of Amazon Lightsail, we were able to do more things and scale our apps much more than the traditional EC2-instances-based deployment. It's more economical and organized, and we can get every piece of info from a single page, which is awesome. We were able to stretch our legs using Amazon Lightsail and be more productive and economical. We primarily use Amazon Lightsail for our deployment apps after they pass Q/C and CI/CD. Amazon Lightsail is an amazing product that has helped us deploy more web apps and worry less about our APIs, Serverless, and EC2 Instances.
- 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
- 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