We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and Amazon Lightsail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Very good automation and very stable."
"We can easily upgrade and downgrade the Instance."
"Serverless computing: This can be more cost-efficient just regarding computing resources than renting or purchasing a fixed quantity of servers, which involves periods of underutilization or nonuse."
"The interface of the solution is good."
"Amazon AWS has a good Redshift database."
"Technical support has been great."
"It has many choices of computer options, storage options, and even database options."
"It's very easy to use."
"We use Amazon Lightsail for hosting security components in-house and AI modules."
"In Lightsail, they simplified to do it in as few clicks as possible. So, around ten clicks, I have a virtual machine deployed."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The most valuable features are the usability and customer service."
"The initial setup is not easy at all."
"Instead of using some third-party solutions, Amazon should include them as part of its offering."
"Its only cons are on the data warehouse side. AWS' data warehouse Redshift is not as good as it should be."
"A person with no AWS experience might find it overwhelming at first."
"The pricing of the solution could be better. It's a little pricey."
"The response time of technical support could be better."
"They do not yet have a complete solution for APM monitoring. But this, along with real user monitoring, is something that they are actively working on improving."
"The problem with AWS is you have to keep up with the technology. If you don't stay up to date with the technology and its latest changes then you won't know what to use in your infrastructure."
"I don't see this solution as enterprise-ready, for bigger companies like banks."
"When you need to add some custom rules to Amazon Lightsail, the auto scaling feature is a bit difficult."
"To improve, I feel the disk management is too basic. I can't easily partition the disk for the operating system. I have to follow the main configuration that is already set up in the template. To partition the disk, I would need to deploy the operating system first and then make changes, but it's not an ideal method. I would recommend improving the disk management."
"Currently, there is limited support available while installing or configuring it, and resources are primarily available through community-contributed articles."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in PaaS Clouds with 250 reviews while Amazon Lightsail is ranked 14th in PaaS Clouds with 4 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Amazon Lightsail is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon Lightsail writes "Provides preconfigured templates for common setups and allows for easy configuration of firewall settings directly from the console". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, SAP Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas Amazon Lightsail is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Heroku, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google App Engine. See our Amazon AWS vs. Amazon Lightsail report.
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