Amazon Lightsail Reviews

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. 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Neutral

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.

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

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

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.

We were using Amazon Lightsail to reduce our on-premises cost and also to make it available for use anytime and anywhere.

The most valuable features are the usability and customer service.

In the next release, they need better integration with Oracle, Big Data systems, and DevOps. In general, with new serverless technology and microservices architecture, they need to do more on an enterprise scale. As it is now, I see this as a PoC or at a basic consumer level. I don't see this solution as enterprise-ready, for bigger companies like banks.

I have been using Amazon Lightsail for between five and six years.

Lightsail is fairly stable, I'd say. We did have an issue with stability, although it was not with Amazon rather, it was with how we were deploying on Amazon.

The technical support was quite good. I found that they were available, although I'm not sure that they were actually able to solve our problem.

I have used Oracle but I have not compared the pricing between the two.

The services that it provides are good for the price.

This solution is still new in terms of containerized platforms. If you have your own vendor then Amazon may or may not support that. One of the biggest issues is the technology that is not supported on Amazon, which means that you can't migrate to the cloud.

My advice for anybody who is considering this solution is that it is suitable for SaaS services. On the other hand, for IaaS, I would say that it shouldn't be used for financially critical data. The reason is that there is no security compliance. For example, your account information and confidential data should not be moved to this system. On the other hand, if it is analytics with simple, non-critical reports, then it is fine.

Every cloud provider has its own plusses and minuses. In some areas, I would rate this solution a ten out of ten, while in other areas I would rate it a three.

Overall, I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Lightsail is easier to set up and prepare the environment for production and similar tasks. 

EC2 instances are pre-configured and upgraded, so you can simply select and instantly pay for an EC2 instance to set up WordPress, Node.js, or a server container using Docker. 

You can configure the server settings and network settings easily.

The solution could be smoother than it is.

I have been using Amazon Lightsail for two to three months.

Amazon Lightsail guarantees 99.9% uptime.

Twenty employees use this solution.

The initial setup is straightforward and takes five minutes to complete. Two cloud engineer can handle the deployment.

I rate the initial setup a ten out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy.

The tool works pretty well. The instance is working well, and the price is good. We can achieve scalability like AWS at a lower cost. We can accommodate more clients at a lower cost.

The product has a good price.

The user interface is good. I never encountered any problems or issues using the application.

I strongly recommend the solution. 

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

I deploy Linux machines and web pages such as Joomla and WordPress using the product. I have also deployed basic web pages using HTML, CSS, and a bit of JavaScript.

One of the product's most valuable features is its fixed pricing, which makes it ideal for small projects and websites that do not require scaling. For larger applications or projects that need to scale, I recommend using EC2 or Lambda instead.

The product's network features need enhancement. 

I have used Lightsail for approximately two years.

If you are familiar with AWS, I rate the initial setup process as a nine. The web-based command line feature is especially useful because it eliminates the need for manual certificate configuration.

It requires minimal maintenance. I occasionally update the Linux environment, but the service is highly stable overall.

A few months ago, Lightsail's pricing increased, likely due to the addition of the new VPC feature. However, I still believe that it offers excellent value compared to other services on the market.

The solution's networking features are basic, but the response times are excellent. These features are more than adequate for small-scale projects, and I have not needed to configure advanced options such as regions or VPNs.

Overall, I rate it a ten out of ten.