All Amazon Lightsail Reviews
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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.
Jose J
Verified reviewer
Market Research, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2022
A Quick Tool to run Apps in AWS Cloud
I think Amazon Lightsail is one of the best cloud computing solutions for small businesses and new projects. It's easy to use and deploy with just a few clicks.
PROSI like how easy is to deploy virtual machine instances, containers for web apps, and the network solutions offered for cloud computing.
CONSI think that Amazon Lightsail could offer additional virtual machines environments. Aside from that I believe Amazon Lightsail is great and is fulfilling its purpose.
Reason for choosing Amazon Lightsail
I believe Amazon Lightsail user interface is better.
Anonymous
201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2021
Light Sail Your Dream Set Sail
easy to use overall, and cheap cost compares with other similars.
PROSflexible in size, CPUs, Memories, Storages, event bandwidths. lighting setup and deployment. secure remote admin charge by usage is reasonable and innovative.
CONSsome concepts are easily confused, like public IP, private IP, static IP or unique amazon address. billings are not easy to read out, even some zero usage instances being charged around 40 cents. customer services are very slow in the free tier.
Reason for choosing Amazon Lightsail
the usage and cost, and security
Benjamin
Mining & Metals, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2022
Easy to set up server
It is extremly easy to get up and running with AWS Lightsail. New servers are deployed within minutes. Easy access and easy network configuration if you have multiple server.
CONSSwitching to a higher tier server could be easier. You have to create a snapshot and restore the snapshot to the newly purchased machine. Not a big deal but would be nice to just adjust hardware specs.
Reason for choosing Amazon Lightsail
Ease of setup and billing.
Reasons for switching to Amazon Lightsail
Accessibility for remote users
John
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 1 employee
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2022
Cloud Servers Priced Right
I'm very happy with it and have six users on their own servers. Two of the servers are for web sites and web applications while the others are for Quickbooks. They all work well.
PROSLightsail is a great self-service system to initiate cloud servers quickly and easily. The admin console and the underlying tools are great.
CONSThe first time I used it I was a little confused by the CPU time sharing and how that would impact my users.
Reasons for switching to Amazon Lightsail
The Lightsail virtual servers are much less expensive and require less maintenance.
Greg
Consumer Services, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2021
Pricey But the Best!
Easy to use most of the time and better I think than the others out there
PROSSmooth operation and transistions to every platform in the cloud software. Also finding a file is very easy as well
CONSThe language can be a little over your head at times and the software is probably out of a lot of businesses heads
Reason for choosing Amazon Lightsail
Overall better performance
Dasser
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2021
Best Choice for Owning Servers
It's a greatly satisfying experience to have my server on AWS Lightsail
PROSAmazon Lightsail is very simple, straight to the point, fast, full-featured and gives a 3 months period that is enough to test the service and projects. Really service my case very well.
CONSTo give someone permission to access, it's complicated. Also, to log in there is a Captcha that must be written every single time.
Reason for choosing Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Lightsail is better in latency, good pricing plan with enough free trial period and can limit the cost.
Mohammad Sami
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2021
Cloud Service Redefined
I am using Lightsail for Linux VM, and from using that machine for development or connecting to it via SSH client on my smartphone, I love the fact that I'm only bound by my thinking, but with this service I can do everything at nominal prices
PROSAt this price, I was shocked to know how much support, services and software I was getting, a full operating system either Windows or Linux, and 100% uptime it is just amazing
CONSThere is nothing that I can complain about, everything that this service has to offer is simply amazing
Pradip
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2021
Cheapest IAAS provider
To install the services like WordPress in a small instance with provided security, and protection I prefer to choose AWS Lightsail as it is cheap, reliable and easier to use.
CONSNothing to least like about the AWS lightsail.
Chris
Entertainment, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2021
AWS made simple
I am sooo happy that I found lightsail. I use AWS in general, but I find the UI and finding what you need a nightmare especially as you add services, but with Lightsail it is super easy. Although its more limited it has most of what I need
PROSWith Amazon Lightsail you can deploy a wide array of instances super super easily. The pricing is also really great for the specs!
CONSIf I am being totally honest, so far I have not run into any serious issues that I could not easily overcome
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2021
Great and easy way to start AWS
Great VPS solution for small businesses and students
CONSIt can be a bit bulky at times but overall gets the job done