Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) vs. Amazon Lightsail
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) | Score8.9 out of 10 | N/A | Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Users can launch instances with a variety of OSs, load them with custom application environments, manage network access permissions, and run images on multiple systems. | $0.01 per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis |
Amazon Lightsail | Score5.3 out of 10 | N/A | Amazon Lightsail is a virtual private server (VPS) designed to present an easy-to-use cloud platform that offers everything needed to build an application or website, plus a cost-effective, monthly plan. | $3.50 per month |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.5 | 9.8 |
| Usability | 9.7 | - |
| Support Rating | 8.5 | - |