Amazon Lightsail

RATING:

4.9

(16)

About Amazon Lightsail

Lightsail is an Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) service solution designed to help small businesses, students, developers and other professionals host applications, websites, software and developer or test environments on cloud. The platform automatically configures access, security environments, networking or other specifications and includes a static IP address, resource monitoring and domain name system (DNS) management capabilities. Lightsail enables businesses to create virtual servers by launching operating systems, pre-configured applications, or development stack including tools such as WordPress, Plesk, Lamp and more. Developers can receive email or text notifications about discrepancies and deploy multi-tiered applications according to requirements. Add...

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

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Amazon Lightsail Reviews

Overall Rating

4.9

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

5

Customer Support

4

Value for money

5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Amazon Lightsail

1 - 5 of 16 Reviews

User Profile

Collis

Verified reviewer

Internet, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

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.

PROS

I liked everything about using Lightsail, it can be technical yes, but sets up quickly and works very well.

CONS

I 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

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

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!

PROS

The 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.

CONS

It 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

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2022

A simple tool to deploy and manage servers

PROS

Deploying, managing and the pricing structure is much simpler to get compared to products like AWS ec2 and other such products.

CONS

It'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

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

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

PROS

The most I like is the large variety of price planes Amazon Lightsail has.

CONS

The 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

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

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.

PROS

One 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.).

CONS

The 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.