2.1 Lesson 1—What is Amazon Lightsail

Cloud Made Easy

From hosting your website or web application to running software and development environments, Lightsail can do it all.

Scales to your Needs

Amazon Lightsail is a great way to get started with AWS for developers, small businesses, students, and other users who need a cloud platform solution.

Cloud-based Services

Developers can use the compute, storage, and networking features of Lightsail to deploy and manage websites or web applications in the cloud.

Everything you need

Lightsail includes everything you need to launch your project quickly:

• virtual machines,
• solid state drive (SSD)-based storage,
• load balancers, and
• managed databases.

What can I do with Lightsail?

Common use cases for Lightsail include:

• running websites,
• web applications,
• blogs,
• e-commerce sites,
• simple software,
• and more.