2.2 Lesson 2—When to Choose Lightsail

Amazon Lightsail is ideal for simpler workloads, quick deployments, and getting started on AWS.

• Small-scale, multi-tier applications
• Websites
• Web applications
• Testing environment
• Line-of-business software

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Amazon EC2 is designed for scalable deployments and optimizing your workloads.

• Large, multi-tier applications (several dozens of instances)
• Anything requiring instances that are workload-optimized, highly configurable, or resource-intensive; e.g.
  • big data analytics,
  • high performance computing,
  • scientific computing
• Advanced networking