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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) lets users provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where they can launch AWS resources in a virtual network. Users have control over the virtual networking environment, including selection of one's IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways. Users can use both IPv4 and IPv6 in the VPC for secure and easy access to resources and applications.

    $0.05

    per month per NAT gateway

    Pricing
    Amazon LightsailAmazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    Editions & Modules
    512 MB Linux
    $3.50
    per month
    1 GB Linux
    $5.00
    per month
    2 GB Linux
    $10.00
    per month
    IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    $0.00027 per active IP address managed by IPAM
    Hourly
    Traffic Monitoring
    $0.015 per ENI ($/hour)
    Hourly
    NAT Gateway
    $0.045 per NAT gateway
    Hourly
    Standard
    Free
    Hourly
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon LightsailAmazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—There is no additional charge for creating and using an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) itself, you can pay for optional VPC capabilities with usage-based charges. AWS provides features and services that give you the ability to customize control, connectivity, monitoring, and security for your Amazon VPC.
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon LightsailAmazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    67%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    80%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
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    Features
    Amazon LightsailAmazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Lightsail and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    Feature
    Amazon Lightsail
    9.1
    5 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.95 Ratings7.12 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.04 Ratings8.12 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.34 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates9.05 Ratings8.12 Ratings
    Monitoring tools8.85 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images8.95 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Operating system support9.65 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Security controls8.95 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Automation9.64 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    Amazon LightsailAmazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    Small Businesses
    DigitalOcean Droplets
    Score8.7 out of 10
    DigitalOcean Droplets
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9.5 out of 10
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon LightsailAmazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon LightsailAmazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    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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    Amazon AWS
    If you are going to deploy within AWS, you need to know how to leverage VPCs. VPCs have several items you must configure for them to be usable and to even link one VPC to another. If you are only going to deploy a few resources or use some of the default configurations, you still need to have working knowledge of how a VPC functions. If you are used to working with VLANs and the ideology behind those, that is the best direct reference to how a VPC can be described, but with additional layers on top of that with route tables, internet gateways, etc.
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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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    Amazon AWS
    • Pricing model & On demand service commitment.
    • Well, architectural infrastructure development processing before spending the money.
    • AWS VPC are providing hassle-free using with all others services from AWS very easily.
    • AWS business support is very helpful & [gives] the right direction according to client’s situations.
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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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    Amazon AWS
    • The biggest issue with VPC networks is knowing how you can leverage VPC endpoints to ensure your resources within the VPC are not reaching out over the Internet to get to AWS services such as S3 and others.
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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.
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    Amazon AWS
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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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    Amazon AWS
    • AWS VPCs are actively used for following various compliance and regulatory needs such as network separation for PCI DSS. The ability to keep resources and access to those resources controlled through the initial steps of creating VPCs has helped tremendously.
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