AWS LightSail

What is LightSail ?
▪ You have an amazing idea, but then you are not equipped with all the knowledge and tools
required to make it happen.
▪ Say suppose you are a blogger, and you want to start your own blogging venture. But when
you start exploring, you get to know there is this thing called MySQL which has to be
installed and configured with your WordPress, which has to be installed on a web server,
which costs a fortune!
▪ Wait! You rented a server, good job!
▪ Cool, so you just have to configure it now. You start learning stuff, configuring WordPress,
connecting it to MySQL, configuring the DNS, along the way you lose interest because what
you actually wanted to do was blogging, and you got stuck with managing servers!
▪ But hey, cheer up! Our cloud computing leader is here to save you!
▪ They came up with a service called AWS Lightsail.

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What is LightSail ?
Amazon Lightsail is the easiest way to get started with Amazon
Web Services (AWS) if you just need virtual private servers.

Lightsail includes everything you need to launch your project

quickly – a virtual machine, SSD-based storage, data transfer,
DNS management, and a static IP – for a low, predictable price.

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What is LightSail ?
So, Amazon Lightsail is a VPS (Virtual Private Server) service
which gives you templates to choose from, you can either
choose a Plain OS or an OS with a pre-baked application,
ready to be used with a click of a button.

So, no need of worrying about the underlying infrastructure,

just launch your application, and start building your idea, it’s
that simple!

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What is LightSail ?
So basically if you want everything to be installed, configured
automatically from the technical side, and also if your system
does not require auto-scaling, this should be the thing for you!

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Instance Plan

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How is LightSail different from other
services ?
▪ No AutoScale: Well, first of all, the capacity is fixed in Lightsail, the only way you can increase the
capacity is by changing your plan, therefore no auto-scaling in lightsail. Whereas in Beanstalk, OpsWorks
etc. You can auto-scale the resources and you would be billed accordingly.

▪ Fixed Price: In LightSail you have a fixed price, in other services since auto-scaling is supported, you are
billed according to your usage.

▪ Configuration: In OpsWorks you have complete control on the configuration of your system, you can
configure layers, you can create stacks. Lightsail is not that complicated, you get a system, there is
nothing to configure.
▪ Beanstalk on the other hand is all about code, you upload your application code, and it deploys the
application for you. You don’t work with the underlying OS.
▪ AWS Lambda is just about the background tasks, you upload your code and it will start executing it for
you.

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Demo

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Demo

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Demo

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Demo

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Demo

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Demo – Create Database

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Demo – Create Database

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Demo – Database Plans

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Demo – Networking

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Demo – Storage

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Demo – Snapshots

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Demo – Instance Level

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Demo – Instance Level

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