Amazon Lightsail Reviews

Name: Amazon Lightsail
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4 (7 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

7 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is Amazon Lightsail?

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 #10 ranked solution in PaaS Services. PeerSpot users give Amazon Lightsail an average rating of 8.6 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 58% 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

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

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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Muhammad Burhan Sultan

Wordpress Developer & AWS Solution Architect at Seahorse Data

We are a company based in Ireland, and we are AWS partners. We have built some solutions for AWS, and we have developed a WordPress plugin that we use to migrate websites from any hosting site to AWS. We specifically create Lightsail instances using that plugin. When the website is migrated, it is…

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Amazon Lightsail mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of Amazon Lightsail in the PaaS Clouds category stands at 1.5%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Last updated Sep 24, 2024

Valuable Features

"One of the product's most valuable features is its fixed pricing, which makes it ideal for small projects and websites that do not require scaling."
"The instances optimized for WordPress are very lightweight and straightforward in configuration."
"EC2 instances are pre-configured and upgraded, so you can simply select and instantly pay for an EC2 instance to set up WordPress, Node.js, or a server container using Docker."

Room for Improvement

"The product's network features need enhancement."
"Backward compatibility and the flexibility to choose software versions while installing would be improvements."
"The solution could be smoother than it is."

Pricing

"A few months ago, Lightsail's pricing increased, likely due to the addition of the new VPC feature."
"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."

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