Amazon Lightsail Reviews

Name: Amazon Lightsail
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4 (4 reviews)

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Lightsail is ideal for simpler workloads, quick deployments, and getting started on AWS. It’s designed to help you start small, and then scale as you grow.

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Amazon Lightsail is the #14 ranked solution in PaaS Services. PeerSpot users give Amazon Lightsail an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. Amazon Lightsail is most commonly compared to Microsoft Azure: Amazon Lightsail vs Microsoft Azure. Amazon Lightsail is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 57% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 19% of all views.

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Vitor Gabriel Reis Lux Barboza

IT Specialist Architecture at Nidec Global Appliance

Jan 30, 2024

There were templates for Ubuntu, for instance, that I used. I used it if I remember, going to 20.04, I guess. It was ready, and I just used the template and it worked well. There is a template for Windows Server, but I didn't test them. Also, the configurations over the firewall in the console work very good for the purpose that we need to isolate it from the internet but allow the connection from specific IP addresses in specific ports. So the filtering in the Lightsail Firewall works good. And I am able to isolate the virtual machine well from the internet in order to avoid DDoS attacks and stuff like that.

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Poulav Biswas

Senior Technical Lead at Coach Foundation

Jul 26, 2023

It didn't prove to be that much helpful just to switch around from DigitalOcean to Amazon Lightsail. Because of this, what we were considering is the cost as well as the speed of the server, especially since the website is running under the server. Moreover, there's an overhead cost in terms of setting up and running the server, which is higher when comparing DigitalOcean to Lightsail. It's not a direct comparison, but since with DigitalOcean, I'm using Cloudways as a majority between the two services, it's way easier to set up and manage. However, in the case of Lightsail, it's not that straightforward, although as our cloud developers, it was not that difficult either. Nevertheless, the performance didn't improve as much as we expected. So, we decided not to switch everything over to Lightsail.

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PankajSharma5

DevOps Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Mar 5, 2024

We use Amazon Lightsail for hosting security components in-house and AI modules When you need to add some custom rules to Amazon Lightsail, the auto scaling feature is a bit difficult. You can create custom rules while using a Lambda function or EC2 EKS cluster, but it's not feasible to do so in…

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Amazon Lightsail market share

As of March 2024, the market share of Amazon Lightsail in the PaaS Clouds category stands at 1.2%, marking a decrease of 16.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Last updated Mar 6, 2024

Valuable Features

"We use Amazon Lightsail for hosting security components in-house and AI modules."
"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."

Room for Improvement

"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."
"Currently, there is limited support available while installing or configuring it, and resources are primarily available through community-contributed articles."

Pricing

"Amazon Lightsail is a bit cheaper than Amazon EC2."
"The prices are better than EC2 machines, for instance, because they are simplified management, but it works well, and I am able to run everything that I need on it."
"It's very cheap."

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