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AWS offers two great solutions

Whether you’re new to the cloud or looking to get your enterprise cloud solution on the infrastructure you trust, we’ve got you covered.

Amazon Lightsail

Amazon Lightsail is a cloud platform that's cost-effective, fast, & reliable with an easy-to-use interface. It’s ideal for simpler workloads, quick deployments, and getting started on AWS.

Use Amazon Lightsail for…

• Simple web applications
• Websites, including custom code, WordPress, and eCommerce
• Single-server business software
• Dev/Test environments

Evaluate Amazon Lightsail with a 90-day free trial with the Paid plan. The trial includes:

Try the $5/mo, $7/mo, or $12/mo Linux/Unix plans with IPv4 address

Try the $9.50/mo, $14/mo, or $22/mo Windows plans with IPv4 address

Try the $3.50/mo, $5/mo, or $10/mo Linux/Unix plans with IPv6 address only

Try the $8/mo, $12/mo, or $20/mo Windows plans with IPv6 address only

Try the $10/mo Micro container service with one node

Try the $15/mo managed database plan

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Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 is a compute web service that offers secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed for scalable deployments and optimizing your workloads.

Use Amazon EC2 for…

• Enterprise applications
• HPC, Big Data, and Analytics workloads (e.g. Hadoop, Spark)
• Migrations from on-premises environments, including BYOL
• Application modernization

Use credits to access Amazon EC2 features in both Free and Paid plans. Free plan eligible instances include:

T3.micro, T3.small, T4g.micro, T4g.small, C7i-flex.large, M7i-flex.large

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Compare your options
Amazon Lightsail
Amazon EC2
Multiple pricing models and discount options that match your use case

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Low, predictable, and bundled monthly pricing

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Easily connects to other AWS services

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Offers an all-in-one experience, including load balancers and databases

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Allows you full control and flexibility so that you can configure exactly what you need

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Makes server management easier by automatically configuring key resources like networking and security

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Instance types that are optimized for specific workloads including enterprise applications, machine learning, high-performance computing and/or graphics-intensive applications

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Offers you a simplified and efficient way to launch, deploy and manage your compute, networking, storage, and database resources on AWS

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Amazon Lightsail

Lightsail is an an easy-to-use cloud platform that offers you everything you need to build your application or website, including compute, networking, storage, and databases.

Lightsail makes it easy to get started with an easy-to-use management console and API.

Lightsail bundles all the resources you need in to a single, simple price.

Lightsail automatically configures networking, access, and security environments, taking the guesswork out of launching your server.

Lightsail offers a number of preconfigured options to get you up and running quickly, including Linux and Windows OS, and Application stacks.

Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 provides web services for provisioning and managing computing capacity in the cloud.

Broadest and deepest selection of instance types, operating systems, software packages and consumption options to run any workload at scale.

EC2 offers powerful servers, including specialized instances for enterprise applications, machine learning, high-performance computing, graphics-intensive applications, and many more.

EC2 offers you the ability to fully configure your compute, storage, and networking options.

Lightsail offers a number of preconfigured options to get you up and running quickly, including Linux and Windows OS, and Application stacks.

The choice is easy

Whether you’re looking for a cost-efficient, all-in-one solution or an optimized solution that addresses your high-performance needs – we’ve got you covered.
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