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Amazon Lightsail halving most of its pricing.
https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/
It looks like most of the pricing for lightsail has been cut in half (other than the 512mb plan, which has been reduced to $3.5 a month).
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Interesting tbh. Out of curiosity how do they handle ddos attacks? I read that all AWS services come with AWS shield (free version), but since you have to link your card, you could still be billed for overage?
edit: That new pricing is enticing! However, I feel like the 2 core one is a bit too much. Wish it started at 10 or 15
Daddy like. Especially now that most AWS credits include lightsail usage.
fuk, with that many location. I'll having fun
thanks for letting us now OP
Anyone know how lightsail VMs compare to Vultr's? Specifically in Sydney.
Bench.sh Sydney 1GB for people interested
And here's Singapore:
Anyone know if the I/O caps go up with the plan size? Guess I should just spin up a bigger one to find out.
Kind of surprising for Amazon, OVH's Singapore servers get better speeds to literally every location in bench.sh. Maybe Lightsail has limits that AWS doesn't.
It doesn't have any IPv6, for example. No wonder they need to slash prices on this outdated trash.
So what's the advantage over OVH SG for example? Other than brand image?
location
Why is the SSD so slow with Lightsail?
It's now at the same price as Vultr and Linode for $20 plan, but I am not sure about the performance.
is this kvm? can one mount iso etc ...?
Fat hope. They are using xen. But even then everything is controller. Impossible.
I've been using them on and off. They are pretty ok. But the bandwidth limit and price is nerve wrecking.
Nothing to stop competitors blasting out your bandwidth
Who really cares about no IPv6? IPv4 enough for everything and not limited.
If they add PayPal payments will be a real powerful competitor to Vultr and DO like providers
Alot of people.
Probably unlikely - If I'm not mistaken it runs off the AWS billing system?
Corrected
no, I was talking about AWS, because who would use expensive AWS if it only got 10Mbit worldwide?
My woothosting yearly VPS has faster disk speeds
Hell, my Gullo's $4/yr nat is over 8-9 times faster :O
Shit I never noticed that, those are supposedly SSDs? ~67MB/s? Load of old mullock if you ask me.
I guess people running on Amazon's Lightsail are not idling 24/7.
I don't think it's that slow from load, more like it's capped to provide
mediocremedium but very stable performance for everyone.Looks capped, I am getting similar performance on 2GB Singapore.
Yeah I just took a look at their forums and people are complaining about shit like their Apple apps getting denied because they don't support IPv6. I was going to try them out again but without IPv6 support, forget it.
Ugh. Thanks for reminding me why I'm not using AWS. I got all excited for a few seconds.
That is why they call it Lightsail, something like a cost-reduction plan.
Can anyone beat that set of locations in one place, almost everywhere in World. Less resources meant slashes, so better don't expect 1Gbps port at all.
The price really isn't bad for AWS, even given the restrictions.
Does anyone know which OS templates are available on this plan? It's not obvious from the info provided.
for windows it's 2012R2 and 2016 and they have a bunch of premade bitnami stack templates: