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    Amazon Lightsail

    Score5.3 out of 10
    N/AAmazon 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

    Pricing
    Amazon Lightsail
    Editions & Modules
    512 MB Linux
    $3.50
    per month
    1 GB Linux
    $5.00
    per month
    2 GB Linux
    $10.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Lightsail
    Free Trial
    No
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon Lightsail
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    Amazon AWS
    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.
    Incentivized
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    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, …
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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 …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    67%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    80%
    Delivers good value for the price
    4 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    Amazon Lightsail
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Lightsail
    Feature
    Amazon Lightsail
    9.1
    5 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.95 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.04 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.34 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates9.05 Ratings
    Monitoring tools8.85 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images8.95 Ratings
    Operating system support9.65 Ratings
    Security controls8.95 Ratings
    Automation9.64 Ratings
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    Amazon Lightsail
    Small Businesses
    DigitalOcean Droplets
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon Lightsail
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon Lightsail
    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.
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    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
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    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
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    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.
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    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
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    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
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