We performed a comparison between Amazon Lightsail and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle and others in PaaS Clouds."The initial setup is pretty easy."
"In Lightsail, they simplified to do it in as few clicks as possible. So, around ten clicks, I have a virtual machine deployed."
"We use Amazon Lightsail for hosting security components in-house and AI modules."
"The most valuable features are the usability and customer service."
"Just having the many options and features offered by the product through the cloud is a major benefit."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring."
"I haven't experienced any instability or downtime in Oracle Cloud over the past three years. It is scalable The support team was good. The initial setup is straightforward to configure. I rate the solution a nine out of ten with ten being the highest."
"Apart from the licensing, there's support from Oracle Cloud Platform which improved our day to day operations. Time is reduced. Based on this service, we are able to scale up dependent applications as quickly as we can."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Interface."
"I like having the ability to easily run Oracle Linux server instances and to deploy Oracle Middleware and WebLogic servers. Oracle's Infrastructure as a Service products are also very useful, and we're using those right now within Oracle OCI."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the high level of performance for the databases."
"In terms of features, upgradeability to the latest version of Oracle suites has been a good feature. All we have to do is just patching or an upgrade, it's pretty easy. Then, it gets regularly updated. That's what I like about it."
"I don't see this solution as enterprise-ready, for bigger companies like banks."
"When you need to add some custom rules to Amazon Lightsail, the auto scaling feature is a bit difficult."
"Currently, there is limited support available while installing or configuring it, and resources are primarily available through community-contributed articles."
"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 is not a user-friendly tool. From an improvement perspective, I want Oracle Cloud to be more user-friendly."
"The solution isn't very mature. The on-premises deployment has more features and the cloud needs to work to match those options."
"Amazon AWS has a better solution overall."
"More technical papers could be published to help out professionals."
"The product features related to the manufacturing domain must be improved."
"The configuration through the cloud is complicated. It's not straightforward."
"I would recommend this solution to other people."
"The solution needs to improve the discovery and assessment of the existing infrastructure."
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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, Google App Engine and Amazon AWS, whereas Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud and IBM Public Cloud.
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