On November 30, public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Amazon Lightsail, a service that gives you quick access to a virtual private server (VPS). At first glance, ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. is rolling out more cloud instance types, this time for its AWS Lightsail service. AWS Lightsail is a private virtual server offering introduced in 2016, aimed at small ...

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Before the cloud, we often rented servers from hosting companies. We still do, but now Amazon is coming after those businesses with Amazon Lightsail. Amazon plans on beating these businesses by ...

AWS fired a shot across Digital Ocean’s bow this morning at the AWS re:Invent conference when it announced new virtual private servers starting at just $5 a month. The VPS service, called Lightsail, ...