Amazon Lightsail Reviews and Pricing

PankajSharma5

DevOps Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Mar 6, 2024

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Cheap, easy to install, and used for hosting security components

Pros and Cons

"We use Amazon Lightsail for hosting security components in-house and AI modules."

"When you need to add some custom rules to Amazon Lightsail, the auto scaling feature is a bit difficult."

What is most valuable?

We use Amazon Lightsail for hosting security components in-house and AI modules.

What needs improvement?

When you need to add some custom rules to Amazon Lightsail, the auto scaling feature is a bit difficult. You can create custom rules while using a Lambda function or EC2 EKS cluster, but it's not feasible to do so in Amazon Lightsail.

For how long have I used the solution?

We are a service-based organization, and we have been using Amazon Lightsail for more than three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

If your organization's DevOps team has good troubleshooting skills, you can easily manage stability issues by creating custom scripts.

I rate the solution nine and a half out of ten for stability.

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What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

You cannot implement a Lambda function and custom rules in Amazon Lightsail. When an application's specific process or service takes time and too much load, taking a network-based or IOPS-based autoscaling is not feasible.

I rate the solution seven and a half out of ten for scalability.

How are customer service and support?

The solution's technical support team assists you as per the SLAs. The support gets a bit delayed for beginners.

I rate the solution’s technical support six and a half out of ten.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

How was the initial setup?

The solution's initial setup is easy and takes around one to two days for someone with a background in SDA or Linux administration. Since it is UI-based, the solution's installation is easy to learn.

What about the implementation team?

The solution's deployment takes five to ten minutes. We implement zero-downtime deployment as well.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Amazon Lightsail is a bit cheaper than Amazon EC2. Amazon Lightsail is a cheap solution for startups.

What other advice do I have?

Amazon Lightsail makes it easy to deploy any application on any cloud. You do not need to set up the whole website. Instead, you can just drag and drop your applications. I would recommend Amazon Lightsail to users who do not have much traffic. Amazon Lightsail is a bit cheaper than Amazon EC2.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner