Amazon Lightsail

Amazon provides different variety of compute as service. It contains EC2 that allows you to have full control on a machine, Elastic Beanstalk provide a managed environment with some control and now amazon new service AmazonLightsail provides the lowest cost for a web server with full managed service. AmazonLightsail has a different plan for different needs. It starts at 5$ a month.

AmazonLightsail provides the virtual private server with little control over it. That user who does not want to get the complexity of managing environment can simply use Lightsail for web hosting. Lightsail comes with static IP, SSD based storage, DNS management, data transfer and virtual machine all in one package.

Getting starting with AmazonLightsail is easy. You just need to choose an image and AWS will do everything for you. You can access your instance using SSH and you can connect using browser also.

You can scale your web application by connecting AmazonLightsail with other AWS services. You can connect databases (RDS, DynamoDB), CloudFront, S3 etc. AmazonLightsail provides the flexibility of using other AWS services.

AmazonLightsail supports different operating systems, applications and stacks.

AmazonLightsail basic plan starts at 5$ a month and it can go up to 80$ per month. It comes with one-month free trail.

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