Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
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Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
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Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
#2Just announced on AWS Reinvent Keynote.
It's nicely packaged their existing products (EC2, VPC, ...). So you can get Digital Ocean like experience on AWS. You can still tune the underlying services.
Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
#3Just to be clear: This service is offered by Amazon/AWS themselves, it isn't a third party. That's a question I had when I first clicked, which is why I am answering it here.
One big "gotcha" for AWS newbies which I cannot tell if this addresses: Does this set or allow the user to set a cost ceiling?
AWS have offered billing alerts since forever. They'll also occasionally refund unexpected expenses (one time thing). But they've never offered a hard "suspend my account" ceiling that a lot of people with limited budgets have asked for.
They claim this is a competitor for Digital Ocean, but with DO what they say they charge is what they actually charge. I'm already seeing looking through the FAQ various ways for this to exceed the supposed monthly charges listed on the homepage (and no way to stop that).
Why even offer a service like this if you cannot GUARANTEE that the $5 they say they charge is all you'll ever get charged? How is this different from AWS if a $5 VPS can cost $50, or $500?
That's what Amazon is missing. People want ironclad guarantees about how much this can cost under any and all circumstances. I'd welcome an account suspend instead of bill shock.
Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
#4I have a growing list of cloud / vps providers I like to kick the tires on. I'll be adding this to the list as well.
Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
#5Just announced on AWS Reinvent Keynote. It's nicely packaged their existing products (EC2, VPC, ...). So you can get Digital Ocean like experience on AWS. You can still tune the underlying services.
Digital Ocean was the first thing that I thought.
Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
#6How much of a threat is this to Digital Ocean, Linode, and others?
Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
#7I have a growing list of cloud / vps providers I like to kick the tires on. I'll be adding this to the list as well.
Care to post your list? After it was filled out with details it'd be a nice resource to share.
Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
#8I have a growing list of cloud / vps providers I like to kick the tires on. I'll be adding this to the list as well.
What are your thoughts on Vultr?
Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
#9This is the first cheap bandwidth option I've seen on AWS. Transferring 1TB out of S3 or EC2 is costs about $90, but is included in a $5 server with Lightsail.
Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
#10I could see the appeal of some of the lower range hardware plans, but especially the higher tiers seem way off in terms of pricing. Can someone clarify why a 2 core/8GB machine costs 80$, where other IaaS providers charge far less for such rigs? (DigitalOcean gets you 4 cores for 80$/m, TransIP gets you 4 cores, 8GB and 300GB SSD for <55$/m...)