Amazon Lightsail is an easy-to-use virtual private server (VPS) that offers simple management of cloud resources such as containers, at low, predictable prices.

Learn how to quickly build websites or web applications with Amazon Lightsail, providing virtual servers, containers, databases, CDN, load balancing, and storage for low monthly costs.

Get started for free with Amazon Lightsail, a powerful virtual cloud server built for reliability & performance.

Amazon Lightsail provides easy-to-use cloud resources to get your web application or websites up and running in just a few clicks. Lightsail offers simplified services such as instances, containers, databases, storage, and more.

In this tutorial, you create a Flask application, build a Docker container, create a container service on Lightsail, and then deploy the application.

Lightsail includes the features you need to launch projects, quickly: instances (virtual private servers), managed databases, object storage, load balancers, content delivery network (CDN) distributions, SSD-based block storage, static IP addresses, IPv6, domain registration, DNS management, and snapshots (backups).

For a limited time, try Lightsail free for 3 months on the following plans: $3.50/mo, $5/mo, or $10/mo plans when using Linux/Unix $8 USD, $12, or $20 plans when using Windows

Follow the step-by-step instructions to learn how to control the state of your instances, force stop instances that are stuck, update instances for enhanced networking, extend the file system of Windows Server instances, configure instances at launch using scripts, and secure your Windows Server instances.

Learn how to create, connect, manage, and use Amazon Lightsail instances, virtual private servers in the AWS Cloud with operating systems or application stacks.

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