Amazon Lightsail is AWS's simplified virtual private server offering, bundling compute, SSD storage, and data transfer into flat monthly plans aimed at developers, small businesses, and simple workloads such as websites, blogs, and small apps. Linux/Unix instances start at $5/month (or $3.50/month for IPv6-only), with larger instance, managed-database, and container-service bundles available. It abstracts away the complexity of EC2 while living inside the AWS ecosystem, allowing later scaling to full AWS services. New accounts can use a 90-day free trial on select bundles, but there is no standing always-free Lightsail tier.
awssimple-vpsflat-pricinglow-cost
Overview
- Founded
- 2016
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- No
Cloud infrastructure
- Starting price
- $5/mo
- Regions
- 25
- SLA uptime
- 99.9%
- Managed Kubernetes
- No
- Helm support
- No
- Free tier
- No
- Vendor lock-in
- Medium
- Open standards
- Yes
- Easy data export
- Yes
- Multi-cloud friendly
- No
- Org size
- Startup
- Support tier
- Standard
- Ease of use
- 5/5