On November 30, public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Amazon Lightsail, a service that gives you quick access to a virtual private server (VPS).

One possible downside for Amazon is that Lightsail could drive some AWS users with basic needs into a lower-cost product. But given the success of DigitalOcean, that's likely a risk worth taking.

AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon Lightsail for Research, a new offering designed to enable researchers and students to easily create and manage high-performance CPU ...

AWS Lightsail, which launched in 2016, is Amazon's answer to the rise of Digital Ocean, OVH and other affordable virtual private server (VPS) players.

Amazon Lightsail is initially launching the US East (Northern Virginia) region, with plans to expand it to other AWS hosting regions in the near future.

AWS fired a shot across Digital Ocean’s bow this morning at the AWS re:Invent conference when it announced new virtual private servers starting at just $5 a month.

AWS Lightsail is a Virtual Private Server environment that is designed to for use by small businesses or developers. Although Lightsail is primarily geared toward hosting web applications, Amazon made ...

Expert advice for organizations that outgrow AWS Lightsail and need to move their web applications to the more scalable EC2 platform.