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Amazon Lightsail vs. Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Lightsail
Score 5.3 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
Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) from Huawei Cloud enables users to create a secure, private, and isolated virtual network. The user can customize IP address ranges, subnets, security groups, and bandwidths, and assign Elastic IP (EIP) addresses.N/A
Pricing
Amazon LightsailHuawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Editions & Modules
512 MB Linux
$3.50
per month
1 GB Linux
$5.00
per month
2 GB Linux
$10.00
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon LightsailHuawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Amazon LightsailHuawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Considered Both Products
Amazon Lightsail
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Pintu Barman
Web Developer
Chose Amazon Lightsail
The only reason to shift from liquid web to Amazon Lightsail is the cost. Amazon Lightsail's cost is very low as compared to liquid web.
Chose Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Lightsail is ideal for beginners looking for a low-cost VPS to try out new things. It's especially useful if you're at a hackathon and need a quick way to prototype a quick idea. I would never recommend Lightsail for any kind of production work. In terms of uptime, …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Amazon Lightsail
I believe Lightsail has worse support than DigitalOcean and the pay more for better service model is not great as most customers are trying it for the first time. They are both very fast to set up and get started, but we went with AWS Lightsail because we were familiar with …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Amazon Lightsail
Linode and Digital Ocean are far more reliable than Amazon Lightsail. I would recommend against hosting any production applications in Lightsail. Even for prototyping, I would also suggest using the VPS provider of your choice for your production application because you can …
Sandesh Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sandesh Singh
FrontEnd Development Engineer
Chose Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Lightsail is a great platform. Before we started using it, we were using AWS EC2 instances as our primary servers after being dissatisfied with other providers. After Amazon Lightsail's introduction, we were able to reduce our operating costs, improve our quality …
Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
It stacks pretty against some of them, but the main issue this platform faces is scaling. So I feel that, if we take accessibility into account, it beats almost all of its competitors but apart from that if we take UI and flexibility into account, it lacks a lot of features as …
Chose Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
I'd like to point out that Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is very simple to use and operate, and we can easily perform operations on it using the documents that are available on its support site. We can easily download the documents from the site, which are …
Features
Amazon LightsailHuawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Lightsail
9.1
Ratings
12% above category average
Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
-
Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring tools8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Operating system support9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Security controls8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Automation9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Amazon LightsailHuawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Small Businesses
DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets
Score 8.7 out of 10
Vultr
Vultr
Score 6.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.5 out of 10

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Enterprises
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.5 out of 10

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User Ratings
Amazon LightsailHuawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.8
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon LightsailHuawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Likelihood to Recommend
It is best suited for the small applications which do not need much CPU powers to executes tasks and when integration with other AWS services but it is less suited for the applications which need very frequent auto scaling for the performance purpose, as AWS Lightsail did not support system downgrading so not recommend to use in this case.
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Pintu Barman
Web Developer
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First and foremost, the cloud is a very secure and widely used platform for practically all businesses.I appreciate that Huawei Cloud is based on OpenStack Cloud, which is a widely used platform, and that you can obtain specifics for each component of OpenStack Cloud on the internet. Using this cloud service makes us feel like we're running a datacenter through a GUI.
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Pros
  • Value instances packages
  • Better organized UI
  • Easy billing resulting in higher efficiency
  • Cheaper than competition
  • Better support staff
  • Can adjust for any bills you may have incurred by accident
Sandesh Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sandesh Singh
FrontEnd Development Engineer
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  • Isolated private networks on the cloud
  • Two-way migration feature
  • Flexible network deployment
DB
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Cons
  • Lack of flexibility in terms of configuration
  • Customer service tiers - have to pay more for better service
  • Usage not shown in obvious place
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • It's a little tricky to use, you will need training for maintenance
  • UI can be changed a bit in order to make it more user-friendly
  • Sometimes has scaling issues
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Anonymous
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Usability
My overall experience with Amazon Lightsail is very good, and the online community of Lightsail users is very large and its helps to resolve any kind of issue i faced on my server. I also like the integration of other AWS services with Amazon Lightsail like we can export our Lightsail instance into ec2 server using snapshots.
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Pintu Barman
Web Developer
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon Lightsail is ideal for beginners looking for a low-cost VPS to try out new things. It's especially useful if you're at a hackathon and need a quick way to prototype a quick idea. I would never recommend Lightsail for any kind of production work. In terms of uptime, Lightsail has proved unreliable. Occasionally, the instance will simply crash or reboot at random. Without warning, Amazon will perform maintenance on your Lightsail instance. Lightsail's networking is likewise lacking, with no support for IPv6.
AP
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It stacks pretty against some of them, but the main issue this platform faces is scaling. So I feel that, if we take accessibility into account, it beats almost all of its competitors but apart from that if we take UI and flexibility into account, it lacks a lot of features as compared to its competitors.
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Anonymous
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Return on Investment
  • Hosting a production application on Lightsail will guarantee you a loss
  • Saved lots of time for our prototyping
  • Other VPS providers are better
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Anonymous
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  • Solved a huge issue of accessibility from different geographical zones
  • Since it was cheaper than the current one, this business decision did save some costs
  • Helped solving concurrent transaction saving issues
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Anonymous
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