Amazon Lightsail Reviews & Product Details

Amazon LightSail is a very good service from Amazon. The servers are very good, but it needs ongoing developer maintenance which has costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The fact that the servers need ongoing developer maintenance and it has costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You get full control over your website, domain, network IP, and server size. You can choose the system you need based on usage and upgrade anytime you need to. You have access to all the high-end features like backups and databases as needed. I felt right at home on the platform. I set up a WordPress website and was able to have it live in minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For a beginner, you might have trouble since this is a fully integrated package. This isn't something to dislike. It puts the power of control in your hands. You do have to have some background to set up the sites completely. For example, you will need to configure your own DNS entries. YouTube videos have you covered if you need help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to setup, FREE Cloudfront (limited bandwidth), Price & Availabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not well optimized and easily get crashed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lightsail is a great lightweight web server. I most like the ability to set up and run a WordPress installation on an Amazon server - that was a breakthrough and helped us set up the website as we wanted it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lightsail is rather technical and setting up caching mechanisms on it was hard. I had to ask for help from more experienced colleagues. The issue was also a lack of documentation for the most used features, like that cache. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Lightsail prove itself best in terms of computing at cheap cost with the accessibility of databases, autoscaling load balancers etc. this is good and cheap for small projects and functions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is not as much to mention for its dislike as it is an excellent service, but as compared to ec2, it is only suitable for small functions and has fewer managed VMs in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how effectively you can select location to deploy your project across the world. It's easy and simple. Performance is also fair to price we check it on production Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing is little bit concern and IAM from AWS is hectic. It should be improved as it's required feature. Apart from that, I haven't seen any performance issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

They have one of the best eco-system in the industry. Performance is also fair enough. With there vast available locations it's prime cloud provider in industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UI and eco-system is somewhat overwhelming for new beginners. Must require prior experience with any other provider to start here. Also, pricing is little bit more then competition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lots of options for creating an instance, variable cost options. Easy to deploy the instances. Very good for small business to start development. It is very cost effective and seamless. The documentation for installation of different instances is provided very effectively which makes it easier to use. It does not have much complex function like that of an EC2 instance. The walkaround is user friendly and everything is readable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Documentations for connecting one or more instances are usually not there. Initially i struggles with connecting two or more instances such as the front to the back end on the Lightsail instance as different documentation needs to be provided. However I got much help from Youtube and other open source tutorials which made it easier to navigate and deploy 2 or more instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's a super intuitive UI/UX to work with, the basic configurations would work for anyone trying to make a quick site for testing envs or staging products. It also gives you multiple choices for content management or if you want only a operative system on the instance, that is possible too. Which I recommend to use since the other apps have a common configuration with bitnami which is more difficult to understand and manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The configurations steps and tricks to make it work with other services like Route53 or ELB's are not working, deprecated or not exist. Also when installing packages such as wordpress or joomla they are not updated so it makes more difficult to reach a production point, since you have to spend time updating, analyzing and trying new fixes. There's a fix opportunity when talking about the DNS configuration for wordpress, if you want to get rid of the default DNS record, you must go trough the bitnami configuration to update the DNS entry for your site, however that doesn't work for standalone sites just for the multione. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its best among students which helps them to create their website and small scale applications. AWS Lightsail is the best and the cheapest among all the competition int the market. The feature I like the most is that it is different in terms of pricing from AWS EC2 as it has its own pricing structure and packages based on a fixed pricing model. I run a VPN server and its not cheap to pay for each GB you use in AWS EC2, this issue was fixed in AWS Lightsail as they provide a fixed amount of bandwidth for each tier which is very useful so that we don't have to pay per GB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is not much to complain about AWS Lightsail, but the only thing that I stumbled upon was that I accidentally had a charge regarding a snapshot that I created for my VM that incurred charges during my one month trial of the basic $3.5 package which was due to inadequate documentation and information about what services we can or cannot use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.