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AWS Lightsail.. any thoughts a few months in?
I know lightsail has been discussed before in comparison to other providers. But now that we are a few months into AWS lightsail, any thoughts?
I went through the free month, did not do much with it, but liked it. I wish there was an "unwrap" feature that would unwrap the lightsail and expose the EC2/ESB under-the-hood.
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Fuck Bezos.
Only if you want to leverage the rest of AWS (due to cheap LS bandwidth).
Probably one of the worst VPSes i've ever used.
Old hardware, slow network, slow I/O.
Interesting. I would have expected good hardware and network.
I wonder if the hardware is ex-AWS castoffs? Do you remember what hardware they gave you? Just curious.
We've got 20 instances running, doesn't seem like old gear to me.
"Slow" I/O is kinda subjective. It's EBS gp2 storage (general purpose SSD). So.. for what we're doing it's way more than enough, but if you're used to local SSD storage then I can see why you'd complain.
Slow network = subjective as well. Personally seeing consistent 300Mbps+. I'm guessing they've capped instances at a respectable port speed for consistency.
I've personally got nothing to complain about with the service. Saves us a bit of money compared to EC2, especially when it comes to bandwidth.
CPU and throughput is limited based on "credits". The more you use it, the faster the credits go and then you get capped heavily. Bigger instances start with more "credits".
Do the credits run in similar/same fashion as the T2 instances?
Gotcha. Guess we haven't hit any CPU caps or don't notice it with our workload. All 512MB/1GB boxes.
Anything insanely CPU intensive we're running on our ever growing list of cheap E3 boxes.
Amazing except for the lack of operating systems
So... Wondering....
If the interconnect bandwidth between services in the same zone it's free. Can we use one of these as a reverse proxy for services on normal EC2 and other stuff?
That's probably the best benefit and use case of this, if that's how it works.
Poor I/O, poor network. "Free for 1st month" is the only good thing about Lightsail.
Yes, that's the true benefit - cheap bandwidth out of aws.