‫So I want to quickly show you
‫what Lightsail looks like
‫we're not going to play much with it.
‫But I want to show you what it looks like.
‫So Lightsail, as you can see, looks nothing like AWS,
‫it is a separate service
‫because it doesn't have any kind
‫of good integrations with AWS.
‫So let's get started with Lightsail.
‫They need you to create an instance.
‫And so say, where is this going to be.
‫And so as you can see, you can change the region
‫and the AZ from here for that instance.
‫And there's limited amount of regions available to you.
‫So for example, we can set at one in Ireland,
‫then based on where you select your instance to be,
‫you're going to get some parameters
‫to configure your instance,
‫but you're going to get a lot less.
‫so you can pick an instance image
‫which would correspond to an AMI a but again,
‫all these things are hidden from you in lightsail.
‫And so for example, we can say okay,
‫we want to use a blueprint such as a template,
‫and we can use the OS only.
‫This would be very similar to EC2,
‫but we can go with App NOS for example.
‫We can say okay,
‫I want to launch a WordPress websites right now.
‫and you click on this And you have a WordPress website.
‫So as you can see,
‫lightsail is a much lighter as the name indicates.
‫And it's really meant for you to be quickly up
‫and going on AWS without understanding,
‫the entire infrastructure that goes behind it.
‫So this is for very simple applications.
‫So we can have an optional launch grid,
‫which is an EC2 use data,
‫we can change the SSH key pair if you wanted to.
‫But you can see all these things are kind of hidden.
‫They don't want you
‫to modify these parameters well, right away.
‫The cool thing here is the instance plan.
‫So we have a lot less customization here,
‫we don't see the EC2 instance types,
‫we just see some instances with a price indicated,
‫so it's easy to understand the price is going to cost me
‫For example, this one will cost me 3.5 USD,
‫but it's the first month is going to be free.
‫So maybe that's the one I want.
‫And we can see how much RAM CPU I get and disk space.
‫So this is really, really easy to use.
‫As you can see,
‫we don't have that many instance types possible.
‫We can go all the way to one
‫that costs 160 US dollars per month,
‫and we see 32 gigabytes of memory, eight VCPU 640 ASG
‫and seven terabytes of network transfer,
‫so fairly easy, I'm going to just pick this one
‫because it's in the free tier,
‫and then you have to make sure you delete at the end.
‫So it's going to be WordPress one,
‫and it will create this instance.
‫So we can see here, no security groups, no networking,
‫no EBS volumes, really, it's meant to be very, very simple.
‫And that's the main idea behind lightsail.
‫So while this instance is pending, again,
‫we can go ahead and create,
‫we could go ahead and create a database.
‫So you could create database and again,
‫this is not RDS, this is lightsail.
‫So it's going to be much more easy.
‫You choose again, the region
‫and the AZ you pick the database type.
‫And then you can specify some credentials for the login,
‫if you want to standard database or high availability,
‫and then the price you're willing to pay.
‫And again, this database right here,
‫will get you the first month three,
‫but then you would be $15 per month.
‫So as you can see, again,
‫it's a very simplified version of AWS,
‫hence the name lightsail.
‫We could do the same with networking.
‫I won't show you right now.
‫But you can create all these three things,
‫including a load balancer,
‫In the networking section,
‫we could do storage to get some more storage disk
‫and snapshots for your backups.
‫So this is a very simplified one view of AWS.
‫Now let's look at our WordPress.
‫So here, if I click here,
‫this actually gets me into an SSH terminal,
‫into my EC2 instance.
‫So I need to wait a little bit for it to boot up.
‫So if I now try again,
‫I'm able to connect to my instance using,
‫a version of SSH through the browser.
‫So again, it's really intended to be very easy to be used.
‫So we're not going to do any commands on the SSH.
‫But as we can see a WordPress was deployed.
‫And so I can click on it and view it
‫and then we can connect using SSH again from the same thing.
‫But if we look at the public IP that is running,
‫and open this in a new tab,
‫then we're going to connect into our WordPress instance.
‫And so we are getting our hello world blog.
‫And I'm not a WordPress expert.
‫So I'm not going to show you how to modify this,
‫but the idea is that yes,
‫Something is being created on our instance.
‫And that was very, very easy.
‫So lightsail, I hope you get an idea of what it is.
‫It's meant to be a lightweight version of AWS,
‫but it's not something you're going to use
‫in your job, I believe as a RDS developer,
‫as a subs lab practitioners, solutions architect, etc, etc.
‫Still a good idea to know about the service
‫and it can come up at, the exam, usually as a destructor.
‫Very, very rarely as a service you should get the answer of.
‫So that's it when you're done,
‫please make sure to delete that instance.
‫So you click on delete,
‫and then delete the instance
‫so that you don't incur any charges.
‫So that's it. I hope you liked it,
‫and I will see you in the next lecture.