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Amazon Lightsail
Read 4 Amazon Lightsail reviews
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87% willing to recommend
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Amazon Lightsail vs. HPE Helion
May 2024
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We performed a comparison between Amazon Lightsail and HPE Helion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Featured Review
Vitor Gabriel Reis Lux Barboza
Provides preconfigured templates for common setups and allows for easy configuration of firewall settings directly...
Lightsail has simplified the process of setting up and managing a virtual private server a lot. Because I'm able to do it in a few clicks and have... Read more →
Anonymous User
We're hoping to offer it as an open stack solution to our customers. Initial setup takes a lot longer than we expected.
The cost is really a big benefit. It gives us an extra string to our bow. We run quite a big hosted-enterprise solution for customers on the... Read more →
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  • "The services that it provides are good for the price."
  • "It's very cheap."
  • "The prices are better than EC2 machines, for instance, because they are simplified management, but it works well, and I am able to run everything that I need on it."
  • "Amazon Lightsail is a bit cheaper than Amazon EC2."

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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Amazon Lightsail?
    Top Answer:In Lightsail, they simplified to do it in as few clicks as possible. So, around ten clicks, I have a virtual machine deployed.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Lightsail?
    Top Answer:The prices are better than EC2 machines, for instance, because they are simplified management, but it works well, and I am able to run everything that I need on it. The flat-rate pricing model of… more »
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    What needs improvement with Amazon Lightsail?
    Top Answer:To improve, I feel the disk management is too basic. I can't easily partition the disk for the operating system. I have to follow the main configuration that is already set up in the template. To… more »
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    14th
    out of 37 in PaaS Clouds
    Views
    1,979
    Comparisons
    1,744
    Reviews
    3
    Average Words per Review
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    25th
    out of 37 in PaaS Clouds
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    191
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    HPE Helion Cloud, HP Helion
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    Overview

    Lightsail is ideal for simpler workloads, quick deployments, and getting started on AWS. It’s designed to help you start small, and then scale as you grow.

    The HPE Helion Platforms are HPE Helion OpenStack, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering, and HPE Helion Stackato, a cloud-native application platform. They are based on industry-leading open source projects in OpenStack and Cloud Foundry and provide enterprise customers with flexibility in software and hardware. With HPE Helion OpenStack and HPE Helion Stackato, you can simplify the development, deployment, and delivery of applications you design for cloud. Enterprises often need to quickly develop, deploy, and scale cloud applications across a mix of public and private clouds. To achieve this, they architect cloud apps to be modular and easy to modify in an agile way. The HPE Helion Platform enables large organizations to gain the benefits of supporting these new types of apps, while still meeting required SLAs for security, governance, and privacy.
    Sample Customers
    Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
    ACA Fashion Software, myLoc, Mendix, Comline AG, Nava Solutions, 20th Century Fox, Zhejiang University, iService Global, Okinawa Cross Head, Creative Photo Cloud, Zuora, Ormuco, Ecad, MyCloud, Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS)
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Educational Organization9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise55%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    May 2024
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    Amazon Lightsail is ranked 14th in PaaS Clouds with 4 reviews while HPE Helion is ranked 25th in PaaS Clouds. Amazon Lightsail is rated 8.2, while HPE Helion is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Amazon Lightsail writes "Provides preconfigured templates for common setups and allows for easy configuration of firewall settings directly from the console". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Helion writes "We're hoping to offer it as an open stack solution to our customers. Initial setup takes a lot longer than we expected". Amazon Lightsail is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Heroku, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google App Engine, whereas HPE Helion is most compared with Dell ECS, IBM Public Cloud and Amazon AWS. See our Amazon Lightsail vs. HPE Helion report.

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