Amazon EC2 vs Amazon Lightsail

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56 reviews

63 signal

24 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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