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).

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 ...

Benefits of Amazon Lightsail All of the benefits of cloud computing apply to Amazon Lightsail, and perhaps more so because it is a robust product that provides a host of features.

One possible downside for Amazon is that Lightsail could drive some AWS users with basic needs into a lower-cost product. But given the success of DigitalOcean, that's likely a risk worth taking.

Amazon has launched Lightsail, a Virtual Private Server (VPS) service to compete with companies like Digital Ocean, Linode and the multitude of Low End Box providers. The service bundles a basic ...

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.

Unlike AWS, where pricing and customization can become very complicated, Lightsail looks to be easy for experienced VPS system administrators.

Expert advice for organizations that outgrow AWS Lightsail and need to move their web applications to the more scalable EC2 platform.