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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.
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Lightsail a saver
Rating: 10 out of 10
March 14, 2022
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 ...
Arpit Patel
Employee - Information Technology
Student
Stevens Institute of technology
3 years of experienceLow Cost But High Stability for Small Loads
Rating: 10 out of 10
March 8, 2022For 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...
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General Manager
3 years of experienceSailing easy on Lightsail - easy setup
Rating: 10 out of 10
February 28, 2022We 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 ...
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Former Employee
1 year of experienceStay away from Lightsail
Rating: 5 out of 10
September 14, 2021
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, ...
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C-Level Executive
2 years of experienceThe must-have service provider for startups
Rating: 9 out of 10
May 3, 2021Amazon 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...
Sandesh Singh
Engineer - Research & Development
FrontEnd Development Engineer
Genius Systems Pvt. Ltd
2 years of experience
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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 | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
Reviewers rate Operating system support and Automation highest, with a score of 9.6.
The most common users of Amazon Lightsail are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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