What is Amazon Lightsail? Amazon Lightsail is a cloud service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that combines cloud computing power and memory for new or less experienced cloud users. AWS packages memory, processing, storage, and transport into virtual machines (VMs) that customers can purchase, then releases that compute capacity as an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance. Amazon Lightsail derives its computing power from an EC2 instance. Amazon EC2 is a web service that provides secure, configurable computing capacity in the cloud. AWS designed Lightsail to be easy to understand and easy to purchase. The vendor manages an infrastructure that shares the same availability and global regions and availability zones as EC2. Amazon Lightsail runs Virtual Private Servers (VPS), which are virtual machines with individual operating systems but limited access to physical server resources. Customers can choose from multiple Lightsail plans with the following features: memory ranging from 512 MB to 32 GB; processors with one to eight cores; SSD with 20 GB to 640 GB of storage; data transfer allowances of 1 TB to 7 TB; and price from $3.50 to $240 per month. All plans include a static IP address, an intuitive management console, secure terminal shell access, remote desktop access, domain name server management, and server monitoring. Customers also have access to AWS tools. Lightsail offers a variety of operating systems, applications, and packages so a customer can create a template. The developer uses the Lightsail Command Line Interface (CLI) as an alternative to the console. Lightsail also provides a link to the application programming interface (API) and documentation. Amazon load balancer serving media content to a WordPress site Use Amazon LightSail applications and configurations to build projects such as a basic e-commerce application, a website, or a blog—such as a WordPress blog. Features of the light sail Designed for simplicity, Amazon Lightsail offers the following features: Virtual servers. Virtual servers or Lightsail instances can be easily created or removed. Users can perform advanced server configurations for things like networking and storage. Through the Lightsail console, users can install popular applications such as WordPress, Windows, Plesk and more. Simplified load balancing. Load balancing is automated to allow web traffic to be routed across instances so that the website and its applications can respond to variations in traffic. And Lightsail load balancers include integrated certificate management and provide free SSL certificates.

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