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Learning Amazon Lightsail

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  • It is preconfigured VPS or Virtual Private Service service
  • Lists templates to choose of OS or OS with appications like wordpress
  • Use it to deploy and manage websites, web applications, and databases in AWS
  • Connect by Lightsail CLI and API.
  • Service limits in a Lightsail account
    • create up to 20 Lightsail instances
    • 5 static IPs
    • 3 DNS zones
    • 20 TB of attached block storage
    • 40 databases
    • 5 load balancers
  • Click on create instance button, to intantiate Lightsail instance, which will
    • Launch VM(Virtual Machine)
    • Attach SSD(Solid State Drive)
    • Manage IAM
    • Create Security Groups
    • Setup DNS
    • Create Static IP
  • It does not autoscales as, fixed price. Change plan for more resources.
  • Virtual servers with following features
    •  Free Static IP address
    •  DNS management
    •  1-click SSH or RDP access
    •  Powerful API
    •  Highly available SSD storage
    •  Fast & secure AWS network
  • 5 Lightsail plans with the following characteristics:
    • Memory ranging from 512 MB to 8 GB;
    • Processors with one or two cores;
    • A solid-state drive with 20 to 80 GB of storage;
    • Data transfer allowances of 1 to 5 TB;
    • Prices from $5 to $80 per month.
  • Application templates include
    • WordPress
    • Drupal
    • Joomla!
    • Magento
    • Redmine
    • LAMP
    • Nginx (LEMP)
    • MEAN
    • Node.js
    • and more.
  • Connect to a Lightsail instance using SSH or RDP
  • Can set rules about which ports of the instance are publicly accessible for different types of traffic
  • For backup, use the Lightsail console or API to take a snapshot of your instance
  • Connect Lightsail instances to VPC resources in your AWS account privately, by using VPC peering
  • tag consist of a key and a value can be assigned to a Lightsail resource to organize and identify resource.
  • Lightsail offers following resources
    • Instances (Linux and Windows)
    • Block storage disks
    • Load balancers
    • Databases
    • DNS zones
    • Instance, disk, and database snapshots
  • Lightsail block storage
    • uses SSD
    • with each attached disk can be up to 16 TB
    • can attach up to 15 disks per Lightsail instance
  • Lightsail load balancers
    • distribute traffic across instances in different Availability Zones
    • accommodate increases in web traffic
    • maintain good performance for your visitors during peak load times

 

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