On November 30, public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Amazon Lightsail, a service that gives you quick access to a virtual private server (VPS). At first glance, ...

The success of upstarts like DigitalOcean that focus on simplicity has caught the attention of the cloud computing giant. For all of the success AWS has achieved, it's not exactly a simple service.

Amazon Web Services Inc. is rolling out more cloud instance types, this time for its AWS Lightsail service. AWS Lightsail is a private virtual server offering introduced in 2016, aimed at small ...

AWS Lightsail, which launched in 2016, is Amazon’s answer to the rise of Digital Ocean, OVH and other affordable virtual private server (VPS) players. Lightsail started as a pretty basic service, but ...

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Before the cloud, we often rented servers from hosting companies. We still do, but now Amazon is coming after those businesses with Amazon Lightsail. Amazon plans on beating these businesses by ...

Providers of low-costs virtual private servers (VPS) are facing a major new competitor this morning, as AWS announced the new Amazon Lightsail service at the re:invent conference this morning in Las ...

AWS Lightsail is a Virtual Private Server environment that is designed to for use by small businesses or developers. Although Lightsail is primarily geared toward hosting web applications, Amazon made ...

Expert advice for organizations that outgrow AWS Lightsail and need to move their web applications to the more scalable EC2 platform. AWS Lightsail is designed to be an easy and cost-effective ...