❖ AWS Lightsails Server Overview

Official: AWS Lightsail.

OS

• Linux (Only newest):

  
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• Windows:

  
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Regions

• Servers on DIFFERENT regions can't connect to each other through Private IP
• Servers on SAME region but DIFFERENT zone CAN connect through Private IP
• Snapshot can be used to create another server in SAME region but DIFFERENT zone
• Snapshot CAN'T be used to create another server in DIFFERENT region
• Static IP can be only applied to SAME region.

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Pricing

• Linux

  
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• Windows

  
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Linux: 8.0 USD/mo (Lowest)

Static IP

They're free in Lightsail, but it will be charged $0.005 USD/hour for static IPs not attached to an instance for more than 1 hour, which means it will cost 3.6 USD/mo !! That's insane

Snapshot

Refer: What do Lightsail snapshots cost?

0.05 USD/GB-mo.

Snapshot of an instance, CANNOT cross region, but can change zone in the same region.

You can both create a Snapshot from an instance, or create an instance from a snapshot.

Refer to: Create a Linux/Unix-based instance from a snapshot in Lightsail

Block storage

Block storage disks can only be attached to instances in the same region and zone.

2.00 USD/20GB-mo.

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Scalable

Scale up or down within minutes with disks of up to 49TB– and attach up to 15 disks per instance.

Disk limits:

Block storage disks can only be attached to instances in the same region and zone.
The new disk must be the same size or larger than: 8 GB.
You can create additional storage disks with a capacity of up to 16 TB (16,384 GB).
Your total disk storage must not exceed 20 TB in a single AWS account.
You can attach up to 15 disks to a single Lightsail instance, in addition to the system disk.
You can only attach a block storage disk to one Lightsail instance.

Load Balancer

$18 USD/mo.