- Virtual servers, storage, databases, and networking
- Low & predictable pricing
- Simpler alternative to using EC2, RDS, ELB, EBS, Route 53...
- Great for people with little cloud experience!
- Can setup notifications and monitoring of your Lightsail resources
- Use cases:
- Simple web applications (has templates for LAMP, Nginx, MEAN, Node.js...)
- Websites (templates for WordPress, Magento, Plesk, Joomla)
- Dev / Test environment
- Has high availability but no auto-scaling, limited AWS integrations