AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers

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Post by Elect2 » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 7:38 AM UTC

AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers
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Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers

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Post by grezql » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 8:22 AM UTC

great news, I love spinning up Lightsail instances for new projects!! my current running instances are not updated, I suppose I have to recreate them then..

Edit: It seems they have added new instance types. My current instances are now 3.50$

https://snag.gy/3Q1fL0.jpg

Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers

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Post by andy_ppp » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 8:26 AM UTC

Can I have everything be as simple as Digital Ocean but still use their Managed Services like RDS?

Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers

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Post by patd » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 8:28 AM UTC

Why is there only 3 providers there ? This should probably include others like OVH, Scaleway, Vultr,

Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers

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Post by eahman09 » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 8:36 AM UTC

DO and Linode are very expensive compared to OVH, Scaleway or Hetzner. So this reads as "Lightsail announces 50% price drop, will still be very expensive"

(From another comment: https://snag.gy/3Q1fL0.jpg) -> $3.50 for 512 MB of RAM is a fucking rip-off compared to this: https://www.scaleway.com/

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Post by candiodari » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 8:36 AM UTC

Kimsufi has dedicated servers starting at 5$ per month. Yes, it's an atom, but it's yours alone, and is going to beat these on performance, memory and riskspace.

Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers

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Post by zython » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 8:36 AM UTC

patd wrote: post #4

Why is there only 3 providers there ? This should probably include others like OVH, Scaleway, Vultr,

Also hetzner cloud

I dont know about the cores that hetzner provides and how they compare to the competitors, but ~3$ for a somewhat usable VPS is damn competetive

(not affiliated with hetzner in any way, other than I have one of those 3$ instances)

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Post by krn » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 8:38 AM UTC

andy_ppp wrote: post #3

Can I have everything be as simple as Digital Ocean but still use their Managed Services like RDS?

OVH provides Cloud Database[1], but only up to 4 GB RAM / 64 GB storage.

[1] https://www.ovh.co.uk/cloud/cloud-databases/

Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers

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Post by cbg0 » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 8:41 AM UTC

eahman09 wrote: post #5

DO and Linode are very expensive compared to OVH, Scaleway or Hetzner. So this reads as "Lightsail announces 50% price drop, will still be very expensive" (From another comment: https://snag.gy/3Q1fL0.jpg ) -> $3.50 for 512 MB of RAM is a fucking rip-off compared to this: https://www.scaleway.com/

If all you're interested in comparing is price, then yes it is still expensive, but there are other considerations such as network quality, support responsiveness, the actual performance of the VPS.

Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers

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Post by omgtehlion » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 8:41 AM UTC

grezql wrote: post #2

great news, I love spinning up Lightsail instances for new projects!! my current running instances are not updated, I suppose I have to recreate them then.. Edit: It seems they have added new instance types. My current instances are now 3.50$ https://snag.gy/3Q1fL0.jpg

Wow, tree fiddy.

How is cpu usage on these nodes? Aren't they oversubscribed as hell?