Amazon Lightsail
Explore the Amazon Lightsail compute service and how it is different compared to EC2.
Amazon Lightsail is a simplified, low-cost compute service that Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides. Lightsail provides all the essential tools for launching a project quickly. This includes instances, containers, databases, networking, storage, DNS management for registered domains, and resource backups.
Amazon Lightsail offers a user-friendly interface that simplifies the process of deploying and managing websites, applications, and other cloud-based workloads.
Lightsail instances
Lightsail instances are virtual private servers (VPS) that we launch in the cloud. They provide computing power, memory, and storage resources. Instances are among the core computing services offered by AWS. Lightsail gives us the flexibility to select an image that includes an operating system, along with images that come with preconfigured applications or development stacks and the base operating system.
Instance blueprints
Instance blueprints in Amazon Lightsail are pre-configured templates that can be used to launch virtual private servers (VPS) with specific software stacks or applications already installed. Blueprints help simplify the process of ...