Amazon Lightsail
About Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Lightsail Pricing
Lightsail bundles all the resources you into one simple pricing plan.
Starting price:
$3.50 per month
Free trial:
Available
Free version:
Available
Most Helpful Reviews for Amazon Lightsail
1 - 5 of 16 Reviews
Collis
Verified reviewer
Internet, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2024
My Amazon Lightsail Review
My overall experience was great, unfortunately, I no longer use this amazing product due to my circumstances.
PROSI liked everything about using Lightsail, it can be technical yes, but sets up quickly and works very well.
CONSI have no cons to report about using Amazon Lightsail, its a great product.
Viktoria
Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2021
Easy to deploy Amazon service that supports Wordpress
We used Amazon services for our web app, but when I was tasked with creating a new version of the local newspaper website with WordPress, I discovered LightSail. Once set up, it created a very basic WordPress installation. Securing it and dealing with caching was also easy as all of my colleagues were already familiar with Amazon's services. Bottom line is, if you want a WordPress website and you want to run it on Amazon servers, take a look at LightSail - it works great!
PROSThe service is easier to set up for someone just starting with Amazon hosting than their other services. I loved how fast LightSail was. It increased the performance of my WordPress setup and made the pages load much faster.
CONSIt is not a beginner's thing. If you want a simple WordPress and you don't want to have to write a line of code, a shared hosting is a better option.
Reasons for switching to Amazon Lightsail
All of our services were on Amazon servers and we decided it was time to move on from the shared hosting for that particular website.
Eitan
Information Technology and Services, 1 employee
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2022
A simple tool to deploy and manage servers
Deploying, managing and the pricing structure is much simpler to get compared to products like AWS ec2 and other such products.
CONSIt's quite disappointing that you have to pay to get better customer service.
mohamed
Computer Software, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2022
My best choice for renting virtual servers
The most I like is the large variety of price planes Amazon Lightsail has.
CONSThe least I like is the SSH control for the servers is so annoying to set up with putty or any other software, also the documentation is not good for this part.
Reason for choosing Amazon Lightsail
I have chosen Amazon Lightsail because of the server's stability and pricing plans.
Reasons for switching to Amazon Lightsail
I switched because server's stability and pricing plans.
Matthew
Verified reviewer
Retail, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
2
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2022
Fast, reliable and infinitely configurable virtual servers
We needed a secure web server to run our custom application. Lightsail gave us the security we needed at a very reasonable price. It was a little complicated to set up, but it has been everything we had hoped for: fast, reliable, secure. Overall we are very pleased with the experience and would highly recommend it.
PROSOne of the key features that sold us on Lightsail was their security. Our application needs to be HIPAA compliant, and Lightsail gave us the security we needed (data is encrypted at rest, firewall, authentication, etc.).
CONSThe downside of being such a full-featured offering is that Lightsail (and all AWS services) is complex. Setting everything up the first time is a fair bit of effort, and you really have to be meticulous. The AWS documentation is fairly limited, but there is a lot of additional info available on the web because AWS is so ubiquitous.
Reason for choosing Amazon Lightsail
Lightsail offered the security we needed at a reasonable price.