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Transfer to and from other AWS resources is free (see their FAQ).
I'm not seeing that in the FAQ. In my reading it pointedly leaves open the possibility of incurring AWS egress charges when transferring to LightSail.
Which means it's free since transfering data from one VPC to another one or peering is free (at least it was with bare aws)
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All low-end VPS offerings use shared cores, so # of cores is a fairly useless comparison unless they also tell you the oversubscription rate or all of your neighbors are idle.
BuyVM offer non-shared cores at a cheaper rate than either Linode or DO. https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices (No affiliation, happy customer with minimal downtime for ~5 years now.)
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The terrible IOPS performance on AWS is the biggest downside for me. All competitors seem to outstrip AWS on this. Do they have some legacy infrastructure that is just too big too upgrade to something more modern, or is this "on purpose"?
As @STRML said, the difference is that Amazon is using network attached (EBS) storage as the primary instance storage, instead of local SSD. This provides a ton of benefit to Amazon, and some benefit for the user as well: CoW backend allows for nearly instant snapshots and clones, multi server/rack redundancy with EC, ability to scale up with provisioned IOPS easily, etc. The downside is that the access methods for b…
So network-attached storage for Lightsail is upside for AWS, but all downside for the customer.
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There are also many less known VPS providers with truly great deals. I've been using these two: NodeServ: $1.25/month = 50GB HDD, 512MB RAM, 1 core, 1TB bandwidth, location in Jacksonville. Host.us: $6/month = 150GB HDD, 6GB RAM, 4 cores, 5.12TB bandwidth, location in Dallas. Both deals found on LowEndBox.
Your lesser known VPS providers probably have lower tier bandwith, more crowded hypervisors, old virtualization tech or old hardware. That's not to say getting a 8GB openVZ vps for $4 a month isn't an amazing deal, but just that there are caveats.
I have a bunch of sites running on it without stepping on each other, and I doubt that would be the case on AWS / Google / DO.
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Looks like you can spin up three of these instances as a proxy and pay $15 for 3 TB of bandwidth from AWS.
Where do you see that? To me it looks like bandwidth is plan-wide. For example, from the FAQ: "If you delete your instance early and create another one, the free data transfer allowance is shared between the two instances."
Just 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).…
It would be nice if they offered an option of adaptive bandwidth throttling, so that once you're past 75% of your allotment it starts slowing you down such that you never reach your entire quota, and never get charged for overages. The Zeno's paradox in action - once you reach half your limit, the speed is cut in half. "Zeno" throttling if you will. :)
Price breakdown vs DigitalOcean, VULTR and Linode. Of course all things are not equal (i.e. CPUs, SSDs, bandwidth, etc). Provider: RAM, CPU Cores, Storage, Transfer ---------- $5/mo LightSail: 512MB, 1, 20GB SSD, 1TB DO: 512MB, 1, 20GB SSD, 1TB VULTR: 768MB, 1, 15GB SSD, 1TB ---------- $10/mo LightSail: 1GB, 1, 30GB SSD, 2TB DO: 1GB, 1, 30GB SSD, 2TB VULTR: 1GB, 1, 20GB SSD, 2TB Linode: 2GB, 1, 24GB SSD, 2TB --------…
Curious, why don't you compare with known "non-cloud" hosting companies too, that provide vps services, like ovh, hetzner, leaseweb, etc.? EDIT: Anyone cares to explain his reasons behind a downvote?
Price breakdown vs DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, OVH, and Online.net / Scaleway:
$5/mo
| Provider | RAM | Cores | Storage | Transfer |
| ---------------------- | ----- | ----- | ---------- | -------- |
| LightSail | 512MB | 1 | 20GB SSD | 1TB |
| DO | 512MB | 1 | 20GB SSD | 1TB |
| VULTR | 768MB | 1 | 15GB SSD | 1TB |
| Hetzner (virtual) | 1GB | 1 | 25GB SSD | 2TB |
| OVH | 2GB | 1 | 10GB SSD | ∞TB |
| Scaleway (virtual) | 2GB | 2 | 50GB SSD | ∞TB |
| Provider | RAM | Cores | Storage | Transfer |
| ---------------------- | ----- | ----- | ---------- | -------- |
| LightSail | 1GB | 1 | 30GB SSD | 2TB |
| DO | 1GB | 1 | 30GB SSD | 2TB |
| VULTR | 1GB | 1 | 20GB SSD | 2TB |
| Linode | 2GB | 1 | 24GB SSD | 2TB |
| Hetzner (virtual) | 2GB | 2 | 50GB SSD | 5TB |
| OVH | 4GB | 1 | 20GB SSD | ∞TB |
| Scaleway (virtual) | 8GB | 8 | 200GB SSD | ∞TB |
| Online.net (dedicated) | 4GB | 2 | 120GB SSD | ∞TB |
| Provider | RAM | Cores | Storage | Transfer |
| ---------------------- | ----- | ----- | ---------- | -------- |
| LightSail | 2GB | 1 | 40GB SSD | 3TB |
| DO | 2GB | 2 | 40GB SSD | 3TB |
| VULTR | 2GB | 2 | 45GB SSD | 3TB |
| Linode | 4GB | 2 | 48GB SSD | 3TB |
| Hetzner (virtual) | 4GB | 2 | 100GB SSD | 8TB |
| OVH | 8GB | 2 | 40GB SSD | ∞TB |
| Scaleway (dedicated) | 16GB | 8 | 50GB SSD | ∞TB |
| Online.net (dedicated) | 16GB | 8 | 250GB SSD | ∞TB |
| Provider | RAM | Cores | Storage | Transfer |
| ---------------------- | ----- | ----- | ---------- | -------- |
| LightSail | 4GB | 2 | 60GB SSD | 4TB |
| DO | 4GB | 2 | 60GB SSD | 4TB |
| VULTR | 4GB | 4 | 45GB SSD | 4TB |
| Linode | 8GB | 4 | 96GB SSD | 4TB |
| Hetzner (virtual) | 16GB | 4 | 400GB SSD | 20TB |
| OVH | 8GB | 2 | 40GB SSD | ∞TB |
| Scaleway (dedicated) | 32GB | 8 | 50GB SSD | ∞TB |
| Online.net (dedicated) | 32GB | 8 | 750GB SSD | ∞TB |
| Provider | RAM | Cores | Storage | Transfer |
| ---------------------- | ----- | ----- | ---------- | -------- |
| LightSail | 8GB | 2 | 80GB SSD | 5TB |
| DO | 8GB | 4 | 80GB SSD | 5TB |
| VULTR | 8GB | 6 | 150GB SSD | 5TB |
| Linode | 12GB | 6 | 192GB SSD | 8TB |
| Hetzner (virtual) | 32GB | 8 | 600GB SSD | 30TB |
| Hetzner (dedicated) | 64GB | 8 | 1024GB SSD | 30TB |
| OVH | 8GB | 2 | 40GB SSD | ∞TB |
| Scaleway (dedicated) | 32GB | 8 | 50GB SSD | ∞TB |
| Online.net (dedicated) | 64GB | 8 | 1500GB SSD | ∞TB |
Here is a comparison of $20 instances across DO, Linode and LightSail All have 3TB transfer Linode(Best): 4GB RAM, 2 Core, 48 GB SSD DO: 2GB RAM, 2 Core, 40 GB SSD LightSail(Worst): 2GB RAM, 1 Core, 40 GB SSD I use this exact instance on Linode for my site https://dictanote.co ; that one extra core makes a lot of difference when you want to take a backup of db or something intensive like that.
Such comparisons are nearly meaningless. - What kind of SSD? - What kind of "core"? - How much are you over-provisioned on the physical hardware? People are treating cloud resources like they're commodity, but they are not (cloud service providers make it very hard to compare apples to apples). You can have first-class PCIe SSDs on RAID 10 underneath that virtualized storage, or you can have consumer-grade non-RAIDed…
t2 instances notoriously throttle way down to 10% if your workload is too consistent. The full performance is quite good from the 2.40 GHz E2676 v3, but at 10% it's worse than a Raspberry Pi. And this will always hit you at the worst time (when under load).
As for the SSDs, they're just GP2 storage, which is an order of magnitude slower than DO and nearly 2 orders of magnitude slower than Joyent Triton.
So AWS is providing a seriously inferior product here, but it's under the AWS umbrella and peers with the rest of their services. The question is: will the target market care about any of AWS's other services enough to make the inferior $/perf worthwhile, and will they integrate easily enough for the average developer to use them?