Amazon LightSail — Virtual Cloud Server
Introduction
Amazon Lightsail, launched in 2016 is essentially a virtual private server (VPS) that offers you everything needed to deploy an application or website, in a cost effective and easy-to-understand manner. It is a basic service but extremely convenient.
It is designed for customers, developers, small business or startups to get quickly started in the AWS as it reduces the learning curve in the beginning, and user can later adopt the broad AWS Services as they get more familiar with the AWS cloud and/or solution workload increases.
Under the hood, Lightsail is powered by Amazon EC2, Application Load Balancer (ALB), and other AWS services and by doing this it offers the level of security, reliability, and scalability you are expecting from AWS.
It also works great with container workloads. You can deploy your container images to the cloud with the same simplicity and the same bundled pricing Amazon Lightsail provides for your virtual servers.
In this post, we will cover the following topics:
- Virtual Private Server Basics
- Getting Started with LightSail
- LightSail Container Service
