This document provides an overview of Amazon Lightsail, including what it is, when to use it, available plans, key features, and a demo. Lightsail offers simple virtual private servers with bundled compute, storage and networking starting at $5 per month. It provides an easy way to launch fully configured servers in seconds and manage them through an intuitive console. Lightsail can be used to host simple websites, apps, or testing environments and allows access to additional AWS services.

1. Paul Chen

2. What to Expect from the Session
• What is Lightsail?
• When and why to use Lightsail?
• What are Lightsail plans?
• How can you use Lightsail to jumpstart your project?
• Leverage the power of AWS through Lightsail!
• Demo: Build your Wordpress blog on Lightsail in 15 minutes

3. Lightsail: the easiest way to get started on AWS
• Choose from five plans that include bundled
compute, storage, and networking
• Benefit from a low, predictable price
• Spin up a fully configured server in seconds
• Manage from the intuitive Lightsail console
• Scale with access to AWS services
• Automate with Lightsail API & CLI

4. You asked:
A simple experience for simple workloads

5. Lightsail plans include everything you need to
launch a simple website or web app
Lightsail virtual
private server
SSD-based storage Networking & data
transfer
DNS management Static IP Access to AWS
services

6. Choose from a dozen preconfigured instances
Operating
Systems
Applications
Dev Stacks

7. Lightsail teamed up with Bitnami
Bitnami popular open source applications right in the
Lightsail experience
q Single-click – Bitnami application images are pre-configured
and packaged to get you running quickly
q Reliable –Consistent set of components in open source
applications
q Up-to-date – Bitnami is trusted by millions of users as a source
of application stacks that are free of security vulnerabilities
and with the latest revisions

8. • Websites
• Simple apps
• Testing environment
• Few-server business software
When to Lightsail?
• Big data analytics
• High performance computing
• Scientific computing
• Multi-tier applications

9. Key features: SSH from your browser
• Lightsail does your key management
• No plugins
• Secure
…or you can do your own

10. Key features: Static IPs and DNS management
• Static IPs
• Keep your IP
• Attach to instance
• DNS management
• Create zones
• Manage records
• Snapshots
• Back up data
• Create new instances

11. Key features: Connect to AWS services
• Enable VPC peering in Lightsail
• Access dozens of AWS services
and products
• Manage connected services in
AWS console

12. Recap: Why use Lightsail?
• Intuitive management console
• Simple, predictable pricing
• Launch in seconds
• One-click OS and application frameworks
• Core functionality to run your app
• Built on AWS infrastructure
• Easily leverage other AWS services

13. Lightsail Demo

14. Lightsail pricing starts at $5 per month

15. Try Lightsail free for 1 month
www.AmazonLightsail.com
Free trial includes one $5 plan
for 750 hours in your first month