Compared from 110 real customer reviews

Amazon EC2 vs Amazon Lightsail

Side by side from 110 real reviews. Every count is the same as on each service’s page.

How the signal works
The signal score

A score out of 100 for how well reviewed a product is next to others of its kind. It rises with positive reviews and with how many there are; negative and mixed reviews take points off. The best in each category scores in the 90s.

So a handful of glowing reviews can’t beat a product lots of people like. No sponsored placements.

74 signal

58 reviews

70 signal

52 reviews

In short

Users mostly praise Amazon EC2 for low cost, especially with spot instances or reserved capacity, and for steady uptime on long-running servers.

Users like Amazon Lightsail as a simple, predictably priced host for WordPress and small apps, with several reporting long stable runs.

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