‫Amazon Lightsail is a bit of an oddball in AWS
‫because it is kind of a stand-alone service.
‫So with Lightsail,
‫you can get virtual servers,
‫storage,
‫databases
‫and networking in one place.
‫It gives you low and predictable pricing.
‫And so the reason people use Amazon Lightsail
‫is that it is a much simpler alternative
‫to using services
‫that we've been learning
‫such as EC2 RDS, ELB, EBS, Route53 and so on.
‫So Lightsail really the intent of it from AWS
‫is for people that have little cloud experience
‫and don't want to learn
‫how the services work intricately,
‫for example,
‫how their networking works,
‫how the storage works,
‫the server works etc.
‫This is not something you would use
‫your learning how AWS works properly
‫but if you're someone with little
‫to no cloud experience
‫then Lightsail maybe a service for you.
‫From Lightsail you can also set up some monitoring
‫and notifications for your Lightsail resources
‫and so use cases for Lightsail would be
‫for example,
‫if you want to deploy a very simple web application
‫for example,
‫if you have LAMP Stack, Nginx, MEAN, Node.js
‫there's templates for that on Lightsail
‫or if you have a very simple website,
‫for example,
‫if you have a WordPress and Magento,
‫Plesk, Joomla
‫all these kind of things can be deployed
‫very easily on Lightsail.
‫Finally, Lightsail is also great
‫if you have development and test environments in AWS.
‫There is a concept of high availability in Lightsail
‫but there's no auto-scaling
‫and there really are limited AWS integrations.
‫So to summarize,
‫Lightsail really is something
‫that you wouldn't use today on your own
‫but from an exam perspective
‫if you see someone
‫that has no cloud experience
‫and need to get started quickly
‫with a low and predictable pricing
‫without configuring things much
‫that will be Lightsail,
‫otherwise Lightsail will almost
‫always be a wrong answer.
‫So I hope that was helpful
‫and I will see you in the next lecture.