Amazon Lightsail vs Salesforce Platform comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Salesforce are both solutions in the PaaS Clouds category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #7 with an average rating of 9.0, while Salesforce is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.0. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 2.1% mindshare in PSP, compared to Salesforce’s 3.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of Salesforce users who would recommend it.

Amazon Lightsail

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

Salesforce Platform and Amazon Lightsail compete in the cloud services category, with Salesforce having the upper hand in feature richness and enterprise readiness, while Amazon Lightsail stands out for simplicity and cost-effectiveness.

Features: Salesforce Platform is known for its scalability, smooth integration, and quick customization, perfect for agile development. It provides users with a 360-degree customer view and supports extensive analytics through detailed reporting and dashboards. Amazon Lightsail is appreciated for its straightforward setup and management, particularly ideal for small projects. Its fixed pricing model and efficient deployment for applications like WordPress make it attractive for startups.

Room for Improvement: Salesforce Platform struggles with its complex pricing and integration requirements, as well as its cumbersome reporting tools. Users seek improvements in search functionality on AppExchange, transitions to new components, and better platform integrations. Amazon Lightsail needs enhancements in scalability options, setup support, and additional features for network and security management.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Salesforce Platform offers versatile deployment options across various clouds, making it flexible for different needs, though its support response time could improve. Amazon Lightsail boasts straightforward deployment in the public cloud and is user-friendly for smaller projects but lacks comprehensive support resources.

Pricing and ROI: Salesforce Platform is premium-priced, offering extensive enterprise capabilities requiring negotiation for cost-effective licensing, promising significant ROI through efficiency gains. Amazon Lightsail's predictable pricing is budget-friendly, especially for small businesses, effectively providing essential services with controlled costs.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Lightsail

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

7th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Salesforce Platform

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

9th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Mobile Development Platforms (3rd), Rapid Application Development Software (6th), Low-Code Development Platforms (6th), No-Code Development Platforms (2nd), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of Amazon Lightsail is 2.1%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Salesforce Platform is 3.2%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

PaaS Clouds Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Amazon Lightsail	2.1%
Salesforce Platform	3.2%
Other	94.7%

PaaS Clouds

Featured Reviews

VictorAugusto De Souza E Silva

Cloud Engineer at Leek Solucoes

Has simplified website migration and reduced hosting costs significantly

Amazon Lightsail should have some kind of scale service. To be more clear, if I need to scale up my instance or VPS, I need to create a snapshot and create a new instance from this snapshot with more resources, such as CPU, RAM, or disk. It would be beneficial to have a welcome instance where we can just set the instance, go there to edit and select a greater instance from large to x-large or 2x-large. I do not see the need to scale down, but it would be good too. When we are on an x-large for testing purposes and need to do a rollback to a large one, we need to scale down. We do not have this capability on Amazon Lightsail.

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Sharmila-K

Cloud Transformations and Infrastructure Delivery Manager at a university with 10,001+ employees

Integration processes improve but scripting requires effort

The updates, pricing part, and upgrades to the products are some of the most valuable features with the Salesforce Platform.With the Salesforce Platform, I have minimal experience of approximately one and a half years. I get minimal exposure, once every three or two months, especially during holidays. The Salesforce Platform is connected to the cloud, which is beneficial. When it is integrated with different tools such as Microsoft BI Analytics, it helps us analyze much better. Currently, the integration itself is tricky as we have to use extensive scripting. It should be more of a plug-in and use solution. That is the only issue I see, but otherwise, I appreciate it.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Implementations are completed with a few clicks, allowing efficient transitions to other development stages, and setup is easy whether for online support or basic business requirements."

"One of the product's most valuable features is its fixed pricing, which makes it ideal for small projects and websites that do not require scaling."

"In Lightsail, they simplified to do it in as few clicks as possible. So, around ten clicks, I have a virtual machine deployed."

"The initial setup is pretty easy."

"Amazon Lightsail is easy to use and very cost-effective compared to other services such as Azure and Google."

"Amazon Lightsail is a virtual instance that is a service of Amazon AWS, designed to store data securely and provide applications through the cloud at an affordable cost to the SME sector."

"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."

"The intuitive management console of Amazon Lightsail is very good because it is simple; with just a few clicks, I can set a blog online, a WordPress blog online, a new e-commerce online, or just a new application with NodeJS."

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"It was pretty easy to deploy."

"It is very modular in approach. It is very light, and it can be used on various devices. It could be used on an Android phone or a laptop, which makes it good for the sales team on the road."

"The solution provides a preferred method of backing up data."

"The low-code approach to Salesforce Platform is highly valuable."

"It's very flexible and offers tremendous features for customers."

"Salesforce Platform has helped streamline our sales operations, which has essentially increased the effectiveness of our sales operations."

"A fully integrated solution that provides a seamless experience."

"Intuitive to work with and the overall fundamental of the platform is very strong."

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Cons

"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 partition the disk, I would need to deploy the operating system first and then make changes, but it's not an ideal method. I would recommend improving the disk management."

"It would be beneficial if Lightsail allowed easier upgrade and change processes, similar to EC2 instances, without needing to fully back up and reinstall configurations."

"Amazon Lightsail needs more security in the networking because hackers can attack in application layers three and four."

"Amazon Lightsail should have some kind of scale service. To be more clear, if I need to scale up my instance or VPS, I need to create a snapshot and create a new instance from this snapshot with more resources, such as CPU, RAM, or disk."

"The product's network features need enhancement."

"I don't see this solution as enterprise-ready, for bigger companies like banks."

"When you need to add some custom rules to Amazon Lightsail, the auto scaling feature is a bit difficult."

"Currently, there is limited support available while installing or configuring it, and resources are primarily available through community-contributed articles."

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"The cost of data storage is an issue once the company grows."

"I would like Salesforce to recommend related opportunities within the organization that have been taken to closure, so we can fast track new opportunities based on past experiences."

"One area that could use improvement is the approval mechanism in the authenticator, which is unstable."

"It is quite expensive. It has gotten to that point where it is a lot more pricey. It has kind of got its own proprietary language for development. It is probably never going to change, but if it had a more market language for development, it would be easier to find developers. They come at a premium cost, so it is expensive."

"They need an easy way of getting details and then adding to it and then being able to do it in a more simplified way"

"It could be maybe a bit more user-intuitive."

"Salesforce Platform operates as a cloud system, and within our organization, numerous internal systems handle data processing. While real-time data retrieval is feasible through services, achieving real-time communication poses some challenges."

"It's all set up for us in a way that establishes our account. We need to tag ourselves to opportunities. You have to tag yourself to the opportunity manually; you need to find it yourself and tag it."

More Salesforce Platform cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Amazon Lightsail is a bit cheaper than Amazon EC2."

"The affordability of starting at five dollars makes it an attractive option for startups and medium-sized companies, aligning with budget considerations while offering essential cloud services."

"The services that it provides are good for the price."

"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."

"It's very cheap."

"Lightsail is available at an affordable cost starting from five dollars per month."

"A few months ago, Lightsail's pricing increased, likely due to the addition of the new VPC feature."

"The price varies depending on the cloud."

"The price of Salesforce Platform is very expensive. There are other solutions that are similar that cost a quarter of what Salesforce Platform does, such as HubSpot."

"I don't know anything about its cost, but I'm sure it has got a nice little price tag that goes along with it."

"It is expensive. Licensing is on an annual basis."

"The cost is reasonable for the corporations I work for. I would say an average would be around $100 per month per user."

"The licensing is on the expensive side, but most clients engage in negotiations to reach a more favorable agreement. For stand-alone or medium-sized clients, it can be relatively costly."

"The solution is fairly priced."

"I rate this solution a six out of ten for pricing. Though the solution is on the pricier side, it still offers good value for money."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

14%

University

14%

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	39
Midsize Enterprise	26
Large Enterprise	39

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.

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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.

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What needs improvement with Amazon Lightsail?

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How would you choose between Microsoft PowerApps and Salesforce Platform?

I think it depends on your use case. If your organization uses Microsoft Enterprise products, PowerApps will work better in your environment. Similarly, if you have a Salesforce integration in pla...

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How does Salesforce Platform compare with Azure?

Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform is not easy or intuitive to deploy. The difficulty will be impacted by the type of application that you are trying to use the platform to build. Organizations tha...

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Do you build applications using low-code or pro-code builders on Salesforce Platform?

At my organization, we have only used Salesforce Platform's low-code builder. The reason for this is not because we do not like the pro-code option, but because we do not see the need of using it, ...

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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.

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Salesforce Platform is a tool that provides application building with open application programming interfaces (APIs), integration tools, back-end services, starter templates, and developer environments. With a low-code interface, users are able to build applications and benefit from automated processes. The product helps customers to increase work productivity and save on IT costs through efficient, easy-to-understand, methods for creating applications.

Salesforce Platform allows companies to build and operate intelligent applications at scale and share them with employees and customers in real time. The tool secures companies' data while connecting and synchronizing it simultaneously across their Customer 360 accounts. The main components of the product are:

Application development: With low code, companies can build applications faster and automate their businesses.
Automation: The product can connect with Salesforce Genie, allowing employees to create seamless processes.
Security: The Shield component allows companies to secure their data and build applications.
Hyperforce: Companies have the option to scale globally and serve customers locally, providing secure, private, and agile solutions.
Einstein Intelligence: Organizations can utilize artificial intelligence (AI) to create personalized experiences for customers, potentially increasing companies’ growth.
Sandboxes: Salesforce Platform offers developers secure development environments where they can test, build, and deploy changes before rolling out final products.

Salesforce Platform Features

Also referred to as a “drag and drop app builder," this solution offers various features for customers to create intelligent applications and build personalized services for clients, partners, and employees within the apps.

Mobile feature: The mobile feature of Salesforce Platform allows users to build applications for mobile as well as turn already-made apps into mobile apps instantly.
AI: Through AI, users are able to personalize their applications, utilizing the smart assistant of the platform (called Einstein). The creation of customized services for clients can drive engagement and scale customer experience.
Vision feature: The Vision feature also utilizes Einstein Platform, where users can take advantage of Einstein Prediction Builder, Bots, Vision, and Language to create AI-powered applications.
Data protection: Salesforce Platform offers a data protection feature called Salesforce Shield. With it, companies can monitor app and data use, automate security policies, run compliance audits, and encrypt sensitive data.
Privacy and identity feature: Salesforce Customer Identity is a feature for privacy that offers user access through a single login. The feature provides a seamless user experience while maintaining a high level of security.
Community feature: The community feature of the product offers a digital experience platform where companies can create secure portals, applications, and websites.
Builder feature: The application building feature of Salesforce Platform offers various ways for users to create apps, including through low-code builders and pro-code tools.

Salesforce Platform Benefits

The benefits of using Salesforce Platform include:

Compared to manual coding products, Salesforce Platform is simpler for beginner users who want to develop a product.
The tool requires a low amount of coding, making it a quick and agile way to develop applications.
The adaptable design of the platform offers multi-layered security which maintains data accessible to users while protecting it from outside sources.
The product can be incorporated with various platforms and coding languages for application development.
The platform can be used to create applications compatible with large database systems like MySQL and Oracle.
Salesforce Platform allows collaboration between users, as it offers simultaneous access to various users at the same time.
Salesforce Platform is compatible with desktop databases such as Microsoft Access.

Reviews from Real Users

A vice president at a healthcare company values Salesforce Platform because it is flexible and user-friendly with helpful pre-built schemas.

Peter G., a senior technical consultant at a tech services company, rates Salesforce Platform highly because it is intuitive, quite easy to learn, and stores all kinds of relevant sales information.

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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers

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