We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and Amazon Lightsail 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."The stability is magnificent, it's spectacular."
"The ecosystem offered by the product has almost everything."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The availability is good, you can get any service you need immediately."
"The performance of AWS is excellent."
"I like that is very easy to use and that it's flexible."
"For testing, it is a cheap alternative to having to build your own labs."
"User friendly solution."
"The most valuable features are the usability and customer service."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"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."
"There should be seminars and online training sessions available from AWS because a lot of people who are not using it would benefit from having the basic knowledge or basic hands-on experience."
"Our API Management solution is integrated with Lambda, and last year, we had an issue while upgrading Lambda from version 8.0 to version 10. It seemed like Lambda runtime was changed by AWS, and there was a bug that caused the downtime. The loading of the dashboard is slow. It could be because I am located in China."
"Some services which were easy to use through shortcuts are now more complicated to use."
"The product would be better if it was more secure."
"There is room for improvement in cost. Everyone complains about AWS being expensive. The initial cost starts small but can skyrocket unexpectedly."
"They do not yet have a complete solution for APM monitoring. But this, along with real user monitoring, is something that they are actively working on improving."
"They should implement the command shell by default. As it is now, to open the console, you have to download the command application."
"Accessing apps on AWS via my iPhone is awful."
"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."
"I don't see this solution as enterprise-ready, for bigger companies like banks."
"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."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in PaaS Clouds with 250 reviews while Amazon Lightsail is ranked 14th in PaaS Clouds with 4 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Amazon Lightsail is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, 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". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas Amazon Lightsail is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Heroku, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Pantheon. See our Amazon AWS vs. Amazon Lightsail report.
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