Amazon Lightsail Features

Clear and pre-determined storage limits are associated with a hosting plan, and storage limits can be expanded if normal site usage is exceeded.

Hosting providers outline the amount of data that you and your visitors are able to cumulatively upload and download over a given period of time. Pay for additional bandwidth as needed to accommodate web traffic.

Manage email accounts associated with web domains through a built-in or third-party email interface. Support is provided for POP3 and IMAP email systems.

Integrate hosting plans with either open-source or proprietary web hosting control panels in order to use a graphical user interface (GUI) that facilitates access to additional web hosting management features.

Providers allow for a variety of content management systems to be used when managing websites. Support is offered for "one-click" or rapid installations of CMS tools.

The website hosting provider offers support for a variety of server-side coding languages, as well as multiple versions of the web frameworks.

Install e-commerce tools, such as shopping carts, into your website. Certain e-commerce integrations may incur an additional fee.

Access and management of files through FTP, .htaccess, and shell access is provided to users.

Support is provided for a variety of database types, including MySQL, PostsgreSQL, SQL Server, and more. Choose from these and manage your database within the control panel associated with your hosting plan.

Site backup, spam detection, firewalls, malware detection tools, and other security features are offered within the hosting plan.

Access work applications remotely, for when working away from the office and/or traveling

Addition of necessary external data, applications, tools, or features

Integration with content management software

Publishing and managing websites across the internet.

Identify component attributes like servers, hardware, software, and manage relationships across all services

Manage and store data in a database

Organize and manage the accomplishments and development of employees or performance of applications or systems

Security protocol that ensures secure, encrypted communication over the internet, safeguarding sensitive data from unauthorized access

Functions when integrated with multiple forms of external applications.

Allows admisistrators to manage and organize storage, networks, and datacenters.

Monitors performance and statistics related to memory, caches and connections.

Alerts users when unauthorized parties or malware is detected allowing administrators to remedy the issue.

Secures data at rest and in transit from unauthorized access.

Allows administrators to organize components of the database to maintain instance efficiency.

Allows the creating and relinquishing of database access credentials.

Documents access and alterations of the database for analytics and reporting.

Expands functionality while maintaining balanced loads. Serves growing demand without reducing functionality.

The abillity to restore files to its original loacation or alternative sources on-demand.

Stores historical records of information for reverting or reference.

Helps users navigate databases by labeling and organizing datasets.

Data masking provides an additional layer of access control that can be applied to tables and views.

Verifies identity of database users.

Allows users to gain statistically valid insights from their data while protecting the privacy of individuals.

Provides encryption to data during transit and storage

Maintain activity and data access logs

Allows administrators to provide access to storage based on roles

Helps in improving the availability of data.

Uses machine learning algorithms to gain actionable insights.

Store copies of old objects when deleted or overwritten

Ability to scale storage capacity as data increases

Low latency access to data

Multiple copies of data in different data centers

Accessible anywhere, anytime, with low downtime

Compatible with a variety of cloud infrastructure

Compatible with object storage from other providers to ensure seamless integration with multiple sources

Provides an intuitive interface for managing configurations and monitoring activity.

Simplifies the setup process with clear instructions and minimal technical effort.

Integrates seamlessly with cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

Works effectively with containerized applications and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.

Distributes traffic across multiple data centers or regions to optimize performance.

Adjusts resources automatically to handle traffic spikes efficiently.

Continuously monitors server availability to prevent routing to unresponsive systems.

Restores operations quickly and effectively after failures or disruptions.

Active monitoring of systems, applications, or networks

Gain insights into the health of employees, equipment, registered instances or any other organizational asset to check their status

Tracks and makes accessible data on the health of servers and other network components.

Monitor the IP addresses of the incoming traffic

Efficiently manages encryption and decryption of traffic to secure data in transit.

Supports integration with web application firewalls (WAF) for additional protection against vulnerabilities.

Protects against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks to maintain service availability.

Provides mechanisms to restrict unauthorized access and manage user or system permissions.

Controls traffic by allowing or blocking specific IP addresses to enhance security.

Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems

Distributing traffic by sending client requests across servers capable of completing the request

Protect networks against DDoS (Distributed denial-of-service) attacks

Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Decrypting traffic and routing it to different inspection tools to identify potential threats.

Receive data and information in real time

A chronological record of actions or occurrences within a network, software, or process

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

Removing the SSL based encryption from incoming traffic

Determine the configuration of network traffic between clients and web applications based on the content being sent

Directing traffic in a circular pattern such as round robin pattern to each load balancer node in succession

Automatic configuration of devices/instances without manual intervention

Securely stores data to prevent data loss or breaches

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Temporarily stored data recently accessed in order to improve website performance and reduce load on bandwidth

Analyze and gain insights into data in real-time

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Process to improve load performance and handle unnecessary network requests.

Identify component attributes like servers, hardware, software, and manage relationships across all services

A set of indicators that tracks the performance of networks, applications, systems, teams, etc.

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users

Allows businesses to monitor and secure applications and workloads across multiple public clouds

View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data

Safeguard confidential data and meet compliance regulations

Accepting a request from client, forwarding it to a server that can fulfil it, and returning the server's response back to the client

Reduction in the number of bits needed to represent data

Track the status over time for a request, process, asset, or transaction

Verify the identity of users/devices to enable secure access

Checking for another server when one is down and all the traffic needs to be routed to another one.

Interact with data visualization elements, such as charts and graphs, to drill down into data

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.

Set up and configure network resources to make them accessible for authorized users, devices and servers

Remotely monitor and manage client networks, endpoints, systems, and devices via locally installed applications

Distribute client requests or network load across multiple servers

Manage user accounts, profiles, roles, permissions, and other details across applications, devices or networks

Security protocol that ensures secure, encrypted communication over the internet, safeguarding sensitive data from unauthorized access

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.

Creates a virtual server that replicates all the functionalities of a dedicated physical server

View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data

Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems

Reallocate existing resources to better utilize capacity

Assembly of graphs and charts for visualizing and tracking statistics/metrics

Set & manage permission levels based on user roles and restrict access to only authorized individuals

Centralized portal to help users host and manage multiple websites and resources.

Observe and track the demand, usage, progress or quality of a system, product, or user

Create backups and provide methods to recover deleted/lost data

Track the availability time for a designated network or website over a given period of time

Measure the actual bandwidth available on a local network (LAN or WiFi)

Continuously scan servers on a designated network to monitor health and search for any irregularities or failures

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

Assign available resources (human and/or non-human) to various projects and tasks

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users

Receive system updates as soon as any changes are made

Process of distributing a set of tasks over a set of resources, with the aim of making their overall processing more efficient

Offers dedicated resources like RAM, CPU, bandwidth, and storage for managing hosting, software installation, and other operations.