Amazon Lightsail vs EC2 - What's the difference and When to Use What?

Amazon Lightsail is an AWS service that offers pre-packaged tech stacks. You can use Lightsail to host a Wordpress site, a static website, a MEAN or LAMP stack, a database, and many other options. In this video, we overview many of Lightsail's features and how it compares to traditional Amazon EC2 infrastructure.

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[anatoliypronyk]

I'm so happy that I found your youtube blog

[garymcleanuk]

This was a great over view.. Watched this as ive never used Lightsail before which is funny as I am a SA Pro

[Abc-slnf]

Can I use LAMP and Node on the same instance in Lightsail? How easy would it be to migrate from Lightsail to EC2?

[hitmusicworldwide]

I'm always left worrying and wondering how much is "too much traffic"

[DigiDriftZone]

Which one is cheaper for a bog standard but higher spec server: 4 cores, 8gb ram, 1TB, etc?

[Larimuss]

All I want to know is... is it cheaper than EC2 to host small little tiny wordpress sites.

[alettajuliamalebonyane]

Thank you, you really helped me in my interview prep 😀

[peace]

thanks for the tutorial. quick question - is that $3.5/mo per website? what's the best solution for dozens of sites? thanks!

[crabbcake]

performance always seems to stink as if its a PC from 20 years ago.

[RogerThat]

EC2 isn't that bad, but the hardest part is actually getting to what you do need and deciding what you don't need. A lot of it is pretty straightforward but it's just named something specific for Amazon.

[adamkinsey]

"Burstable" is NOT a unique feature of Lightsail....that exists for many EC2 instance types, as well. It really is not correct to describe that as a "LightSail" feature.

[chiefcloudarchitect]

good video. I use LightSail for my customers, for me the main issue is that after you host more than 20 instance you seems to have issues adding the instance 21; especially for CloudFront. The other issue for me is the lack of DB firewall. And lastly, the LAMP package is outdated. What i like is that you can create RDS DB and use it with LightSail, same for SES, SQS, etc. Also, you can scale instances very easily and use a load balance.

[milan_k]

on x1.7 speed to watch all your videos! thank you for the free information sir

[Notomorrow]

is it good for wordpress ecommerce website?

[shotr]

Lets say I want to host an app + simple database. Wouldn't it be cheaper to host everything on a single EC2 instance instead of using Lightsail?
Of course this would require more maintenance work on my side and the architecture won't be as decoupled as in Lightsaild but in the end this should be cheaper because it's only a cost of EC2 instance right? Additional 15$/m for DB is too much.

[pramodkondapally]

Looks pretty good. Hosting wordpress looks to be most economical and low administration!

[TinaEarnings]

What is the best for casino website with application casino?

[mlobaugh]

Wow, I'm and Ex-AWS person and was looking for some other perspectives on Lightsail... this is top notch.. Nicely done!

[rolandonwa]

Can I install andriod emulator in it, if no, which rdp or vps server can I install andriod emulator?

[subhajitchatterjee]

Thanks for such fantastic comparison, kindly enlighten us about DR portfolio of lightsail too.