Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
by mgberlin on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @04:31PM
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Their yearly conference, Re:Invent, is going on this week, so there will probably be more announcements to come.
Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
by neuronexmachina on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @09:35PM
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Yep, there's two keynotes at AWS, one Wednesday by the AWS CEO, and one tomorrow/Thursday by the AWS CTO Werner Vogels. I'm expecting quite a few more announcements during the Vogels keynote.
Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
by nikon on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @05:01PM
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Sorry how has AWS killed digitalocean? It's more expensive. With poor disk performance.
Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
by eloff on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @08:58PM
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Not to mention much less user friendly.
Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
by plandis on Thursday December 01, 2016 @12:42AM
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In what way? (I'm legitimately curious to hear about your experience using both products)
Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
by r5sec5cyl on Sunday December 04, 2016 @10:54PM
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You have to learn about and configure their IAM security tools before you can use anything else. Configuring most of the services is NOT straightforward but typically fine-tunable.
Lightsail is expected to be different.
I feel as excited as I was for Azure's Build 2016. Now I'm feeling pulled to AWS. This is great for AWS, not so much for Google Cloud which further fades into obscurity in my mind. I'd love to see that change, more competition in the cloud space = more options for us developers = more conditions in our favour.
Amazon LightSail just killed digitalocean for me which has been steadily getting more expensive (for instance I can't downsize to a less expensive plan once I resize my image, meaning I forked out $100/month for something that would work for $5/month + multiple DO images now cost monthly fee.
$5/month + tight integration with AWS products is enough for me to move completely off DO. If only AWS had DO's community style documentation, I'd definitely question DO's future viability.
Now a killer IDE from AWS that lets me deploy and configure AWS without leaving the IDE, that's a checkmate move, which I think will be very difficult for me to switch to another cloud provider. Right now things are in flux but I think an in-browser/desktop IDE like Cloud 9 with one click deploy to AWS would be the end game for other cloud providers.