Recommended Cloud IaaS Providers for the SMB in 2016
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@aaronstuder said in Recommended Cloud IaaS Providers for the SMB in 2016:
What about Amazon Lightsail?
Looks very interesting. Is it just new, like... today?
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lightsail-the-power-of-aws-the-simplicity-of-a-vps/
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No Windows on Lightsail, so I would guess that that will limit its utility rather a bit. But very good that Amazon recognized the complexity and is tackling it here.
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@aaronstuder said in Recommended Cloud IaaS Providers for the SMB in 2016:
Amazon Lightsail?
Whoah! when did this come into existence?
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Main page: https://amazonlightsail.com/
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@fuznutz04 said in Recommended Cloud IaaS Providers for the SMB in 2016:
@aaronstuder said in Recommended Cloud IaaS Providers for the SMB in 2016:
Amazon Lightsail?
Whoah! when did this come into existence?
Few hours ago according to the Amazon AWS blog.
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I wonder if there is ability to install your own iso like Vultr.
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@fuznutz04 Negative.
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@fuznutz04 said in Recommended Cloud IaaS Providers for the SMB in 2016:
I wonder if there is ability to install your own iso like Vultr.
I would expect that if they allowed that that there would be Windows as well. The two seem to go together.
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Looks like they are focusing on the Digital Ocean market right at the moment, which makes sense. The low hanging fruit. Great idea that I can't believe took them this long to go after. This will be a huge deal for the market and I expect that we will see Amazon and Vultr as the big players left in 2017. Amazon Lightsail is going to do some crazy damage to the Digital Ocean market for sure. How support is, what DO does to respond and if Lightsail expands to include things like Windows and ISOs will be huge factors.
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@Reid-Cooper said in Recommended Cloud IaaS Providers for the SMB in 2016:
@aaronstuder said in Recommended Cloud IaaS Providers for the SMB in 2016:
What about Amazon Lightsail?
Looks very interesting. Is it just new, like... today?
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lightsail-the-power-of-aws-the-simplicity-of-a-vps/
Yep, it says "today we announce..." and the date was today.
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One of the biggest things that Amazon is offering here is the connections to other services like their hosted database products and S3 storage, which is all local. Players like DO, Vultr and Linode have not tried to do any of that kind of stuff, yet, and I think that it leaves a huge gap and weakness in their offerings. If Linode had a hosted MongoDB service, for example, we would use that for sure. If they had front end load balancers like AWS does, we would use those, too. These players need to get services like that out and differentiate themselves.
It's something that could be done, hosted MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis and MongoDB alone would go a really, really long way to competing with what Amazon is offering. And getting their own S3 type service, or partnering with Backblaze B2 could cover a lot of ground as well.
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Just noticed, Amazon does not offer FreeBSD either, at this time. Purely Linux only, CentOS-based and Ubuntu. No Suse, no Arch, no BSD variants, no Solaris and, obviously, no Windows.
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Looking at the details page, here is a limitation depending on how you handle client accounts, or your own accounts.
What are the Lightsail service limits?
You can currently create up to 20 Lightsail instances, 5 static IPs, and 3 DNS domain zones in a Lightsail account.But this is pretty cool. Ability to manage traffic before it hits your VPS:
Can I manage firewall settings for my instance?
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You can control the data traffic for your instances by using the Lightsail firewall. From the Lightsail console, you can set rules about which ports of your instance are publicly accessible for different types of traffic.
