- Greater for people with little cloud experience!
- Virtual servers, storage, databases, and networking
- Low and predictable pricing
- Simpler alternative to use EC2, RDS, ELB, EBS, Route 53, etc.
- Can setup notifications and monitoring of your Lightsail resoruces
- Has high availability but no auto-scaling, limited AWS integrations
- Use cases:
- Simple web applications (templates for LAMP, Nginx, MEAN, Node.js, etc.)
- Websites (templates for Wordpress, Magento, Plesk, Joomla)
- Dev or Test environments
