What is difference between Lightsail and EC2

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Recently Amazon launched Lightsail  Is there any difference between them  If yes  then what s the difference  Are Lightsail instances more powerful than EC2

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Check official website https   aws amazon com free compute lightsail-vs-ec2   Amazon Lightsail     The Power of AWS  the Simplicity of a VPS https   aws amazon com blogs aws amazon-lightsail-the-power-of-aws-the-simplicity-of-a-vps  Amazon EC2 vs Amazon Lightsail   comparison on point    Web Performances Plans Features and Usability   Source   https   www vpsbenchmarks com compare features ec2 vs lightsail

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Testing sup1  reveals that Lightsail instances in fact are EC2 instances  from the t2 class of burstable instances   EC2  of course  has many more instance families and classes other than the t2  almost all of which are more  powerful   or better equipped for certain tasks  than these  but also much more expensive   But for meaningful comparisons  the 512 MiB Lightsail instance appears to be completely equivalent in specifications to the similarly-priced t2 nano  the 1GiB is a t2 micro  the 2 GiB is a t2 small  etc   Lightsail is a lightweight  simplified product offering -- hard disks are fixed size EBS SSD volumes  instances are still billable when stopped  security group rules are much less flexible  and only a very limited subset of EC2 features and options are accessible     It also has a dramatically simplified console  and even though the machines run in EC2  you can t see them in the EC2 section of the AWS console   The instances run in a special VPC  but this aspect is also provisioned automatically  and invisible in the console   Lightsail supports optionally peering this hidden VPC with your default VPC in the same AWS region  allowing Lightsail instances to access services like EC2 and RDS in the default VPC within the same AWS account  sup2   Bandwidth is unlimited  but of course free bandwidth is not -- however  Lightsail instances do include a significant monthly bandwidth allowance before any bandwidth-related charges apply  sup3   Lightsail also has a simplified interface to Route 53 with limited functionality   But if those sound like drawbacks  they aren t   The point of Lightsail seems to be simplicity   The flexibility of EC2  and much of AWS  leads inevitably to complexity   The target market for Lightsail appears to be those who  just want a simple VPS  without having to navigate the myriad options available in AWS services like EC2  EBS  VPC  and Route 53   There is virtually no learning curve  here   You don t even technically need to know how to use SSH with a private key -- the Lightsail console even has a built-in SSH client -- but there is no requirement that you use it   You can access these instances normally  with a standard SSH client      sup1 Lightsail instances  just like  regular  EC2  VPC and Classic  instances  have access to the instance metadata service  which allows an instance to discover things about itself  such as its instance type and availability zone   Lightsail instances are identified in the instance metadata as t2 machines    sup2 The Lightsail docs are not explicit about the fact that peering only works with your Default VPC  but this appears to be the case   If your AWS account was created in 2013 or before  then you may not actually have a VPC with the  Default VPC  designation   This can be resolved by submitting a support request  as I explained in Can t establish VPC peering connection from Amazon Lightsail  at Server Fault     sup3 The bandwidth allowance applies to both inbound and outbound traffic  after this total amount of traffic is exceeded  inbound traffic continues to be free  but outbound traffic becomes billable   See  What does data transfer cost   in the Lightsail FAQ

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Lightsail VPSs are bundles of existing AWS products  offered through a significantly simplified interface  The difference is that Lightsail offers you a limited and fixed menu of options but with much greater ease of use  Other than the narrower scope of Lightsail in order to meet the requirements for simplicity and low cost  the underlying technology is the same   The pre-defined bundles can be described     aws lightsail --region us-east-1 get-bundles        bundles                            name    Nano                power   300               price   5 0               ramSizeInGb   0 5               diskSizeInGb   20               transferPerMonthInGb   1000               cpuCount   1               instanceType    t2 nano                isActive   true               bundleId    nano 1 0                                   It s worth reading through the Amazon EC2 T2 Instances documentation  particularly the CPU Credits section which describes the base and burst performance characteristics of the underlying instances   Importantly  since your Lightsail instances run in VPC  you still have access to the full spectrum of AWS services  e g  S3  RDS  and so on  as you would from any EC2 instance

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In lightsail a virtual machine  SSD-based storage  data transfer  DNS management  and a static IP are all offered as a package  Whereas in normal case you provision an EC2 instance and then setup the rest of these things Also Bandwidth included in the price  no security groups to set up  no need to worry about EBS volumes sizing

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I think the lightsail as the name suggest is light weight and meant for initial development  For production sites and apps with high volume it simply becomes unavailable and hangs    It is just a sandbox to play with things  Further lack of support reduces its reliability         There should be an option to migrate to EC2  when u fully develop your apps or sites  So that with same minimum configuration you can migrate to scalable EC2

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