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.

The most attractive feature of AWS LightSail is that it is completely different from classic AWS EC2.

The one thing that I like most is that there are packages with very cheap monthly rate so a student like me can afford it and deploy our projects or create a testing environment. AWS LightSail has a targeted amount of bandwidth set for every specific package and this is very good from Classic AWS EC2 where you need to pay for data out bandwidth charge, which is trust me HUGE!! and also the free trial for a month for (0.5MB RAM/ 1VCPU / 500GB bandwidth ) Just for $3.5/month is sweet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing much but there is lot less documentation on LightSail than the classic AWS EC2, lot less regions to deploy servers in.

No current usage shown /month or how much days you have left in free trial, you have to dig deeper in the AWS billing page to find the data shown in hours, which is pretty bad and not time freindly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the things that I liked about Amazon Lightsail was that it came pre-configured with development stacks like LAMP and Nginx making it easy for us to get your web application online. To add, Amazon Lightsail scales well to handle an increase in traffic and heavier workloads ensuring that any app hosted using Lightsail does not lag or be unable to handle requests.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In my use of Lightsail, there was nothing that I disliked. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like most about this product is the ease with which it allows you to mount your web server, in less than 10 minutes you can mount on your server without major difficulties. Another feature that improves even more the ease of implementation is that it has more than 12 images of stacks and applications such as wordpress or magento. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The main problem is that since it is designed for beginners and lacks flexibility in making more advanced configurations, it sacrifices power for ease of use. Therefore it is not recommended for very complex applications and that have a very specific configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Configuration can be confusing sometimes. With Lightsail, configuration and launch of an AWS EC2 instance takes almost no time, and removes the need for intricate knowledge of how AWS networking, VPC, and other services work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be nice to be able to configure Lightsail for loadbalancing and auto-scaling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The templates provided are excellent for starting up small projects. The fact that it manages most of the drudge work of spinning up a sever is a lifesaver. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's not that good for projects that you're expecting a ton of traffic for. For a proof-of-concept mockup, however, it's really good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the way I can interact with the instance in the browser when I need to. It's way quicker that actually SSH to the instance. Apart from that, I love how I can set up Auto-Scalling and other features and integrate them so freely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do not really like the option of having it insecure and be able to SSH it through the browser without having .PEM key. It is something I mentioned as an advantage (it is fast and easy) but also a disadvantage (highly insecure). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lightsail is a Amazon cloud service which provide virtual private servers to users which can be used for starting a new project. The best thing is that it rely on Amazon own AWS which is the most reliable and used cloud computing platform.

Its really fast and easy and particularly designed for users that are new on cloud service.

It provide really competitive plans which are affordable for new projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its not good to use lightsail services for bigger projects. It is basically built for small and new projects. Its plans compete woth DigitalOcean which provide better RAM optiona in this price point Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Love that I don't have to worry about setup up thew environment and can concentrate on coding! Love that there's a Plesk images as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alittle new, so out of scope problems take a bit to get resolved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

From time to time we need a new worpress instance for a stand alone project or for testing. Lightsale allows us to build a WP server in 2 minutes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As long as you realize lightsail is not an enterprise solution, there is nothing to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.