Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by adventured on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @05:00PM (#13075114)

Sort of. Lightsail service limits:

"You can currently create up to 20 Lightsail instances, 5 static IPs, and 3 DNS domain zones in a Lightsail account."

So obviously there's a hard cap within one account. The $80 account comes with 5tb, so one would have to be burning a bit of bandwidth - 100tb - to cap it out. Frankly though, at $1600, Amazon is still printing a massive profit margin on that 100tb of transfer.

These seem like they'd be good front-end servers hooked up to RDS etc.

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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by dx034 on Thursday December 01, 2016 @05:14AM (#13078433)

Transfer is how they really make money. If you use a lot of services (especially spot pricing) and only pay 10% of bandwidth charges it will likely hurt them, so not sure if they'll allow it if many people start doing that.

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