Amazon Lightsail
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Jose J G.
Verified UserMarket Research · 2-10 employees
A Quick Tool to run Apps in AWS Cloud
I think Amazon Lightsail is one of the best cloud computing solutions for small businesses and new projects. It's easy to use and deploy with just a few clicks.
I like how easy is to deploy virtual machine instances, containers for web apps, and the network solutions offered for cloud computing
- I think that Amazon Lightsail could offer additional virtual machines environments
- Aside from that I believe Amazon Lightsail is great and is fulfilling its purpose
Why they chose it
"I believe Amazon Lightsail user interface is better."
Matthew S.
Verified UserRetail · 11-50 employees
Fast, reliable and infinitely configurable virtual servers
We needed a secure web server to run our custom application. Lightsail gave us the security we needed at a very reasonable price. It was a little complicated to set up, but it has been everything we had hoped for: fast, reliable, secure. Overall we are very pleased with the experience and would highly recommend it.
- One of the key features that sold us on Lightsail was their security
- Our application needs to be HIPAA compliant, and Lightsail gave us the security we needed (data is encrypted at rest, firewall, authentication, etc
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- The downside of being such a full-featured offering is that Lightsail (and all AWS services) is complex
- Setting everything up the first time is a fair bit of effort, and you really have to be meticulous
- The AWS documentation is fairly limited, but there is a lot of additional info available on the web because AWS is so ubiquitous
Why they chose it
"Lightsail offered the security we needed at a reasonable price."
Eitan T.
Verified UserInformation Technology and Services · Self-Employed
A simple tool to deploy and manage servers
Verified reviewer
Deploying, managing and the pricing structure is much simpler to get compared to products like AWS ec2 and other such products
- It's quite disappointing that you have to pay to get better customer service
mohamed m.
Verified UserComputer Software · 201-500 employees
My best choice for renting virtual servers
Verified reviewer
- The most I like is the large variety of price planes Amazon Lightsail has
The least I like is the SSH control for the servers is so annoying to set up with putty or any other software, also the documentation is not good for this part
Switched From
I switched because server's stability and pricing plans.
Why they chose it
"I have chosen Amazon Lightsail because of the server's stability and pricing plans."
Viktoria J.
Verified UserInformation Technology and Services · 2-10 employees
Easy to deploy Amazon service that supports Wordpress
We used Amazon services for our web app, but when I was tasked with creating a new version of the local newspaper website with WordPress, I discovered LightSail. Once set up, it created a very basic WordPress installation. Securing it and dealing with caching was also easy as all of my colleagues were already familiar with Amazon's services. Bottom line is, if you want a WordPress website and you want to run it on Amazon servers, take a look at LightSail - it works great!
- The service is easier to set up for someone just starting with Amazon hosting than their other services
- I loved how fast LightSail was
- It increased the performance of my WordPress setup and made the pages load much faster
- It is not a beginner's thing
- If you want a simple WordPress and you don't want to have to write a line of code, a shared hosting is a better option
Switched From
All of our services were on Amazon servers and we decided it was time to move on from the shared hosting for that particular website.
Dasser B.
Verified UserComputer Software · 11-50 employees
Best Choice for Owning Servers
It's a greatly satisfying experience to have my server on AWS Lightsail
- Amazon Lightsail is very simple, straight to the point, fast, full-featured and gives a 3 months period that is enough to test the service and projects
- Really service my case very well
- To give someone permission to access, it's complicated
- Also, to log in there is a Captcha that must be written every single time
Why they chose it
"Amazon Lightsail is better in latency, good pricing plan with enough free trial period and can limit the cost."
Collis C.
Verified UserInternet · Self-Employed
My Amazon Lightsail Review
My overall experience was great, unfortunately, I no longer use this amazing product due to my circumstances.
I liked everything about using Lightsail, it can be technical yes, but sets up quickly and works very well
- I have no cons to report about using Amazon Lightsail, its a great product
John D.
Verified UserInformation Technology and Services · Self-Employed
Cloud Servers Priced Right
I'm very happy with it and have six users on their own servers. Two of the servers are for web sites and web applications while the others are for Quickbooks. They all work well.
- Lightsail is a great self-service system to initiate cloud servers quickly and easily
- The admin console and the underlying tools are great
The first time I used it I was a little confused by the CPU time sharing and how that would impact my users
Switched From
The Lightsail virtual servers are much less expensive and require less maintenance.
Benjamin S.
Verified UserMining & Metals · 51-200 employees
Easy to set up server
Verified reviewer
- It is extremly easy to get up and running with AWS Lightsail
- New servers are deployed within minutes
- Easy access and easy network configuration if you have multiple server
- Switching to a higher tier server could be easier
- You have to create a snapshot and restore the snapshot to the newly purchased machine
- Not a big deal but would be nice to just adjust hardware specs
Switched From
Accessibility for remote users
Why they chose it
"Ease of setup and billing."
Verified Professional
Consumer Services · 201-500 employees
Light Sail Your Dream Set Sail
easy to use overall, and cheap cost compares with other similars.
- flexible in size, CPUs, Memories, Storages, event bandwidths
- lighting setup and deployment
- secure remote admin charge by usage is reasonable and innovative
- some concepts are easily confused, like public IP, private IP, static IP or unique amazon address
- billings are not easy to read out, even some zero usage instances being charged around 40 cents
- customer services are very slow in the free tier
Why they chose it
"the usage and cost, and security"
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