based on CPU allocation per VM definitely very light usage and lightsail

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@jarland https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/does-digital-ocean-come-with-a-cape-and-a-motorcycle-like-amazon-lightsail

Well, just cancelled all my OVH nodes for websites (except 2 reverse proxies) and moving over to Lightsail as it's cheaper to run and reliable

I would not want to be DO or Linode right now. Lightsail might not even be a better product technically but Amazon has a serious brand advantage, especially with non-techie business decision makers.

They might use it for Amazon Workspaces, which would be useful

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( Guacamole left, Amazon "Lightsail" right )

Have you been billed and had it remove from your AWS Credits? I spot-checked a few of the credits' usable services list and I didn't see lightsail there. It would make sense for it to be included, and

Who? Amazon? Naw. DO? Yaw. Vultr? I dunnaw.

Data transfer OUT from a Lightsail instance to another Lightsail instance or AWS resource is also free while the private IP address of the instance is used

EC2 is already relatively simple. The main difference with LightSail seems to be the included bandwidth, since bandwidth on EC2 is expensive.

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It's only available in US East. It seems Amazon want all the money under “Let’s make American great again” project. ROFL

Wow, this is potentially very interesting. It's essentially DO/Vultr at the same price, plus all of the AWS features/integration (if I'm reading this correctly). And it's with a famous provider. I

Yes. And then they come up with Amazon MudShelter which provides some sort of DDoS protection by doing ping pong redirect over reverse moon orbit, costs 99$ per 1gbps and requires a full time nuclear

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Did see yet, but if it's Amazon I fully expect it to be: rock solid, expensive, complicated and with great API.

If you haven't already heard, it appears as if Amazon has launched a VPS hosting service:

checked the site out as frequently as I check Amazon for deals. That says a lot. Doesn't it? :P