Amazon Lightsail Cloud Services

Why Amazon Lightsail Introduced:

Amazon LightSail was launched as a direct competitor to DigitalOcean as a way to encourage smaller startups and individual developers to start using AWS. This was for two reasons. The first is that while AWS has done a great job of selling to large companies and enterprises their service offering can seem overly complex to individuals and small companies when they are just starting out because of how many services are offered.

How does Amazon Lightsail differ from regular EC2?

First, let's see what both can do in common, they can run services for you on an instance.

To run an EC2 instance it is mandated to know

1. Create the VPC(you can also use the default).
2. How big your website going to be to select the size of the instance.
3. Take care of the security groups(SSH, HTTP, HTTPS).
4. Attach the elastic IP to the instance running.

In light sail,

For a layperson who wants to build his WP website, he just goes into Lightsail

1. Create the WP instance(one click).
2. Uses its WP dashboard with the non-static IP(the IP changes whenever you restart the instance) and builds his website.
3. Pricing starts at 3.5$ a month. That’s it, No confusion but a great combination.

Insights:

You can create web services with both of those, but the EC2 needs other knowledge too, whereas AWS lightsail does not demand other knowledge. Making a pizza at home and ordering one through Domino’s differs.

FAQ's

Q) Does Lightsail offer an API? 

A) Truly. All that you do in the Lightsail console is supported by a publically accessible API. Figure out how to introduce and utilize the Lightsail CLI and API.

Q) What is a Lightsail plan?

A) Likewise introduced to as a pack, a Lightsail plan incorporates a virtual server with a fixed measure of memory (RAM) and process (vCPUs), SSD-based capacity (disks), and a free information transfer. Lightsail Packages additionally offer static IP addresses (5 for every record) and DNS management (3 area zones for every record). 

Q)What is a Lightsail instance?

A)A Lightsail instance is a virtual private server (VPS) that lives in the AWS Cloud. using your Lightsail instances to store your information, run your code, and build online applications or sites. Your instances can associate with one another and to different AWS assets through both open (Internet) and private (VPC) networks. You can make, manage, and interface effectively to instances directly from the Lightsail console.