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Amazon Lightsail vs Engine Yard Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Lightsail
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
10th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Engine Yard Cloud
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
23rd
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of Amazon Lightsail is 2.0%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Engine Yard Cloud is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Atul Chauhan - PeerSpot reviewer
Auto-manage features optimize server management and reduce costs
In terms of features, Amazon Lightsail can auto-manage the server with capabilities such as Auto Scaling and Placement Groups. They can auto-manage, and the billing cost is reduced because they have limited technology, which helps to optimize our cost billing for AWS. The benefit of using Amazon Lightsail over the AWS console management is that it is a small platform that is easy to understand, as it has only the instance, DNS, Route 53, snapshots, backups, and load balancing network. Amazon Lightsail has five technologies, and because it's easy to use and everyone can understand it, anyone can manage the server or add anything to that server, making it easy to understand. The initial setup is easy to do.
it_user8382 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineyard or Heroku?
Web-based software is becoming more and more service-oriented. You probably know about software as a service (SaaS – e.g. Salesforce) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS – e.g. Amazon) but probaby not platform as a service (PaaS). Companies like Engineyard and Heroku make it easier to launch and…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
11%
University
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon Lightsail?
In Lightsail, they simplified to do it in as few clicks as possible. So, around ten clicks, I have a virtual machine deployed.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Lightsail?
Lightsail is available at an affordable cost starting from five dollars per month. This cost may increase with additional features like a static IP.
What needs improvement with Amazon Lightsail?
Amazon Lightsail needs more security in the networking because hackers can attack in application layers three and four. The networking layer is basically the hacker's target to break the network, s...
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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
MTV, Estee Lauder, Audi, Appboy, Badgeville, Vitrue, RepairPal, and TST Media.
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