Amazon Lightsail is the latest addition to the AWS family of compute services and the fastest way to get your next cloud server up and running. For a low price that starts at $5/month, Lightsail offers a bundle of resources and services that let you jumpstart your cloud project in a few clicks. The new, intuitive Lightsail console makes it simple to manage your virtual resources, letting you focus on code, not system administration. Learn how Lightsail can get you started on AWS quickly and efficiently.

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Matt Trescot, Manager Solutions Architecture
January 2017
Amazon Lightsail
Launch and Manage Simple Virtual Private Servers

2. Agenda
 What is Lightsail?
 Pricing and plans
 Top use cases
 Using the Lightsail API
 Extending Lightsail
 Demo

3. Lightsail: the easiest way to get started on AWS
 Bundled compute, storage, networking
 Fully configured server
 Low, predictable price
 Intuitive Lightsail console
 Access to AWS services
 Tailored API & CLI

4. Launch a VPS instance with one click
Launch
VM
Attach
SSD storage
Manage
IAM
Create
Security Groups
Manage
SSH Keys
Go!
Under the hood

5. What does your Lightsail plan include?
CPU core(s) SSD block
storage
Networking &
data transfer
DNS
management
1 Static
IP/instance
Access to AWS
services

6. Predictable pricing starting at $5 per month

7. What’s Included
 CPU Core(s)
 Block storage
 Networking & data transfer
 1 Static IP
 DNS management
 Intuitive management console
 SSH key management
 Server monitoring
 Access to AWS services
What could cost extra?
What’s Not
 Data Transfer OUT beyond
plan threshold ($0.09/GB)
 Unattached IP addresses
($0.005/hour)
 DNS queries in excess of 3
million/month ($0.40/million
DNS queries)
 Snapshots ($0.05/GB-month)

8. Lightsail supports many popular use cases
Websites Web Apps eCommerce
Dev/Test
Environments
WordPress Simple
Software

9. Choose from a dozen preconfigured instances
Operating
Systems
Applications
Dev Stacks

10. Use the Lightsail API
 Create and manage resources
 Peer VPC
 List resources
 Automate instance management
 Extend Lightsail functionality
 Create instances from snapshot
 Resize instance to a larger plan
 Set up automatic snapshotting
Try it
out!

11. Using the Lightsail API:
Automatic Snapshotting
Get started in a few simple steps:
1. Create an access key
2. Install the CLI and SDK
3. Review the API docs
4. Go!

12. Extend your application with Lightsail
Connect multiple Lightsail instances
 Build applications with distributed workloads
Create redundancy
 Run instances across multiple availability zones
Add features and capabilities
 Access AWS services using VPC peering and the
AWS console

13. Connect with VPC peering
 Managed databases (RDS)
 Compute instance (EC2)
 Containers (ECS)
 Data warehouse (Redshift)
 Big data - Hadoop (EMR)
 In memory data store/cache
(ElastiCache)
Connect from AWS account
 Object storage (S3)
 CDN (CloudFront)
 AWS Database (DynamoDB)
 Serverless compute (Lambda)
 Email service (SES)
 Message queuing (SQS)
Connect popular AWS services to Lightsail

14. Extending Lightsail:
Adding managed databases (RDS)
Get started in a few simple steps:
1. Enable VPC peering in Lightsail
2. Create your database in the AWS console
3. Point to your database from your Lightsail application

15. Try Lightsail free for 1 month
www.AmazonLightsail.com
Free trial includes one $5 plan
for 750 hours in your first month

16. Thank you!

17. Remember to complete
your evaluations!