Amazon LightSail Instances
Amazon LightSail is one of the newest services in the AWS Compute suite of products.
Amazon LightSail is great for users who do not have deep AWS technical expertise as it makes it very easy to provision compute services.
Amazon LightSail provides developers compute, storage, and networking capacity and capabilities to deploy and manage websites, web applications, and databases in the cloud.
Amazon LightSail includes everything you need to launch your project quickly – a virtual machine, SSD-based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a static IP.
Amazon LightSail provides preconfigured virtual private servers (instances) that include everything required to deploy and application or create a database.
The underlying infrastructure and operating system are managed by Amazon LightSail.
Best suited to projects that require a few dozen instances or fewer.
Provides a simple management interface.
Good for blogs, websites, web applications, e-commerce etc.
Can deploy load balancers and attach block storage.
Public API.
Limited to 20 Amazon LightSail instances, 5 static IPs, 3 DNS zones, 20 TB block storage, 40 databases, and 5 load balancers per account.
Up to 20 certificates per calendar year.
Can connect to each other and other AWS resources through public Internet and private (VPC peering) networking.
Application templates include WordPress, WordPress Multisite, Drupal, Joomla!, Magento, Redmine, LAMP, Nginx (LEMP), MEAN, Node.js, and more.
Amazon LightSail currently supports 6 Linux or Unix-like distributions: Amazon Linux, CentOS, Debian, FreeBSD, OpenSUSE, and Ubuntu, as well as 2 Windows Server versions: 2012 R2 and 2016.