We performed a comparison between Amazon Lightsail and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."In Lightsail, they simplified to do it in as few clicks as possible. So, around ten clicks, I have a virtual machine deployed."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"We use Amazon Lightsail for hosting security components in-house and AI modules."
"The most valuable features are the usability and customer service."
"The most valuable features of the solution are APEX, Threat Detector, and Cloud Guard."
"The stability of the solution is very good...The technical support is good."
"It is a stable solution since it offers a very powerful performance to its users."
"The solution offers many features and it is a complete replica of our data center."
"Oracle offers more of the basic functionality needs."
"Overall, I would say that Oracle Cloud provides support with zero down time and the high probability is very good."
"The product's configuration is simple."
"A good feature of the solution is the clear roadmap it provides specifically from Oracle to PC, there are good options to use OTP."
"I don't see this solution as enterprise-ready, for bigger companies like banks."
"Currently, there is limited support available while installing or configuring it, and resources are primarily available through community-contributed articles."
"When you need to add some custom rules to Amazon Lightsail, the auto scaling feature is a bit difficult."
"To improve, I feel the disk management is too basic. I can't easily partition the disk for the operating system. I have to follow the main configuration that is already set up in the template. To partition the disk, I would need to deploy the operating system first and then make changes, but it's not an ideal method. I would recommend improving the disk management."
"Oracle Cloud could be improved with better third-party integrations."
"In general, the systems application needs improvement."
"The solution should integrate better with other tools and different vendors."
"There's one app I have to install on my device, the Articulate Player app. It's only available on Apple and Android, but it's not available for Windows. I can't run the program on my desktop, to use it to learn Java."
"Managed services for Postgres are not available in Oracle Cloud."
"With the Oracle Cloud Platform, they have to give first some proper documentation with a step-by-step process. Then the customer is able to use it properly. Nowadays, the Oracle Cloud Platform requires lots of floor work."
"Areas that need improvement are the pricing and the support."
"It could be more affordable."
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Amazon Lightsail is ranked 14th in PaaS Clouds with 4 reviews while Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is ranked 3rd in PaaS Clouds with 91 reviews. Amazon Lightsail is rated 8.2, while Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon Lightsail writes "Provides preconfigured templates for common setups and allows for easy configuration of firewall settings directly from the console". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) writes "Cost-effective and can be used to host OIC and APEX". Amazon Lightsail is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Heroku and Google App Engine, whereas Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Public Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift. See our Amazon Lightsail vs. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) report.
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