This document announces Amazon Lightsail, a service that allows users to easily launch and manage simple virtual private servers with bundled compute, storage, networking and other features for a low, predictable price. It offers various pricing plans starting at $5 per month. Popular use cases supported include websites, web apps, ecommerce, development/testing environments and more. The service can be accessed via an intuitive console or API and supports connecting instances to other AWS services like databases, compute and storage through VPC peering.