Why Amazon Lightsail?
With Amazon Lightsail, you pay a low, predictable price. Lightsail bundles resources like memory, vCPU, and solid-state drive (SSD) storage into one plan, so budgeting is easy and straightforward. All of Lightsail’s features—from free tier options to those with more compute—are offered in bundled plans.
No-nonsense monthly pricing
Focus on your code, not your bill. Lightsail bundles all the resources you need into a single, simple price.
- Static IP address
- Intuitive management console
- DNS management
- One-click SSH terminal access (Linux/Unix)
- One-click RDP access (Windows)
- Powerful API
- Highly available SSD storage
- Server monitoring
*Some features are not available in Lightsail for Research. Please visit Lightsail for Research FAQs to learn more.
AWS Free Tier
As part of the AWS Free Tier, you can get started with Amazon Lightsail for free. Sign up and receive one year free of 50 GB content delivery network (CDN) distributions, one year free of a 5 GB object storage bundle, and three months free on select container, instance, and database bundles. If you are linked to an organization (under AWS Organizations), only one account within the organization can benefit from the Free Tier offers. Check out the AWS Free Tier FAQs to learn more.
For a limited time, Lightsail is extending its free tier to include three months free on select bundles. The offer applies to new or existing AWS accounts that started Lightsail usage on or after 7/8/2021. Offer only applies to one bundle per account. Standard charges apply after first 750 hours of usage of the selected bundle each month. Check out the following offers and save now on Amazon Lightsail.
Three months free on Linux/Unix bundles with public IPv4 address: $5 USD/month, $7 USD/month, and $12 USD/month
Three months free on Linux/Unix bundles with IPv6 address: $3.50 USD/month, $5 USD/month, and $10 USD/month
Three months free on Windows bundles with public IPv4 address: $9.5 USD /month, $14 USD/month, and $22 USD/month
Three months free on Windows bundles with IPv6 address: $8 USD /month, $12 USD/month, and $20 USD/month
Three months free on the $15 USD/month Database bundle
Three months free on the $10 USD/month Container service (Micro -1 node)
12 months on CDN
Virtual servers
Bundles with public IPv4 address
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Linux/Unix
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Windows
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Linux/Unix
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$5USD/mo0.5GB Memory2 vCPUs***20 GB SSD Disk1 TB Transfer*$7USD/mo
1 GB Memory
2 vCPUs***
40 GB SSD Disk
2 TB Transfer*
$12USD/mo2 GB Memory
2 vCPUs***
60 GB SSD Disk
3 TB Transfer*
$24USD/mo4 GB Memory
2 vCPUs
80 GB SSD Disk
4 TB Transfer*
$44USD/mo8 GB Memory
2 vCPUs
160 GB SSD Disk
5 TB Transfer*
$84USD/mo16 GB Memory
4 vCPUs
320 GB SSD Disk
6 TB Transfer*
$164USD/mo32 GB Memory
8 vCPUs
640 GB SSD Disk
7 TB Transfer*
$384USD/mo64 GB Memory
16 vCPUs
1280 GB SSD Disk
8 TB Transfer*
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Windows
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$9.50USD/mo0.5GB Memory2 vCPUs***30 GB SSD Disk1 TB Transfer*$14USD/mo1 GB Memory2 vCPUs***40 GB SSD Disk2 TB Transfer*$22USD/mo2 GB Memory2 vCPUs***60 GB SSD Disk3 TB Transfer*$44USD/mo4 GB Memory2 vCPUs80 GB SSD Disk4 TB Transfer*$74USD/mo8 GB Memory2 vCPUs160 GB SSD Disk5 TB Transfer*$124USD/mo16 GB Memory4 vCPUs320 GB SSD Disk6 TB Transfer*$244USD/mo32 GB Memory8 vCPUs640 GB SSD Disk7 TB Transfer*$574USD/mo64 GB Memory16 vCPUs1280 GB SSD Disk8 TB Transfer*
*Both inbound and outbound data transfer count towards your data transfer allowance. Only outbound data transfer in excess of your plan's data transfer allowance is subject to overage charges. Please see the FAQ for more details.
**Lightsail for Research offers virtual servers and is priced separately. Learn more about Lightsail for Research pricing.
***Virtual servers created on or before June 29, 2023 have 1 vCPU.
Data transfer allowances: Asia Pacific (Mumbai & Sydney)
Plans in the Mumbai and Sydney Regions include half the data transfer allowances mentioned in the bundles above.
Bundles with IPv6 address only
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Linux/Unix
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Windows
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Linux/Unix
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$3.50USD/mo512 MB Memory2 vCPUs20 GB SSD Disk1 TB Transfer*$5USD/mo
1 GB Memory
2 vCPUs
40 GB SSD Disk
2 TB Transfer*
$10USD/mo2 GB Memory
2 vCPUs
60 GB SSD Disk
3 TB Transfer*
$20USD/mo4 GB Memory
2 vCPUs
80 GB SSD Disk
4 TB Transfer*
$40USD/mo8 GB Memory
2 vCPUs
160 GB SSD Disk
5 TB Transfer*
$80USD/mo16 GB Memory
4 vCPUs
320 GB SSD Disk
6 TB Transfer*
$160USD/mo32 GB Memory
8 vCPUs
640 GB SSD Disk
7 TB Transfer*
$380USD/mo64 GB Memory
16 vCPUs
1280 GB SSD Disk
8 TB Transfer*
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Windows
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$8USD/mo512 MB Memory2 vCPUs30 GB SSD Disk1 TB Transfer*$12USD/mo1 GB Memory2 vCPUs40 GB SSD Disk2 TB Transfer*$20USD/mo2 GB Memory2 vCPUs60 GB SSD Disk3 TB Transfer*$40USD/mo4 GB Memory2 vCPUs80 GB SSD Disk4 TB Transfer*$70USD/mo8 GB Memory2 vCPUs160 GB SSD Disk5 TB Transfer*$120USD/mo16 GB Memory4 vCPUs320 GB SSD Disk6 TB Transfer*$240USD/mo32 GB Memory8 vCPUs640 GB SSD Disk7 TB Transfer*$570USD/mo64 GB Memory16 vCPUs1280 GB SSD Disk8 TB Transfer*
*Both inbound and outbound data transfer count towards your data transfer allowance. Only outbound data transfer in excess of your plan's data transfer allowance is subject to overage charges. Please see the FAQ for more details.
**Lightsail for Research offers virtual servers and is priced separately. Learn more about Lightsail for Research pricing.
Data transfer allowances: Asia Pacific (Mumbai & Sydney)
Plans in the Mumbai and Sydney Regions include half the data transfer allowances mentioned in the bundles above.
Containers
Run your containerized apps in just a few clicks. Below are the prices for each node of your container service. You get three months free on Micro service with one $10 USD/mo node.
*Each container service includes a data transfer quota of 500 GB per month. Data transfer in excess of the quota will result in an overage charge that varies by AWS Region and starts at $0.09 USD per GB.
Object storage
Bundles
* Free for first year
Overage - Unique to each region
US East (N. Virginia) | US East (Ohio) | US West (Oregon) | Canada (Central) | Europe (Frankfurt) | Europe (Ireland) | Europe (London) | Europe (Paris) | Europe (Stockholm) | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | Asia Pacific (Singapore) | Asia Pacific (Sydney) | Asia Pacific (Tokyo) | Asia Pacific (Seoul) | |
Storage | $0.023 USD/GB |
$0.023 USD/GB | $0.023 USD/GB | $0.025 USD/GB | $0.025 USD/GB | $0.023 USD/GB | $0.024 USD/GB | $0.024 USD/GB | $0.023 USD/GB | $0.025 USD/GB | $0.025 USD/GB | $0.025 USD/GB | $0.025 USD/GB | $0.025 USD/GB |
Transfer | $0.09 USD/GB | $0.09 USD/GB | $0.09 USD/GB | $0.09 USD/GB | $0.09 USD/GB | $0.09 USD/GB | $0.09 USD/GB | $0.09 USD/GB | $0.09 USD/GB | $0.109 USD/GB | $0.12 USD/GB | $0.114 USD/GB | $0.114 USD/GB | $0.126 USD/GB |
Managed databases
Choose between our standard plan and our high availability plan, which includes extra instances for redundancy and failovers.
*Both inbound and outbound data transfer count towards your data transfer allowance. Only outbound data transfer in excess of your plan's data transfer allowance is subject to overage charges. Please see the FAQ for more details.
**Databases created on or before May 15, 2022 have 1 core processor.
CDN distributions
Easily distribute your content to a global audience for a fixed monthly price.
First year free†
† $2.50 USD/month thereafter
Load balancer
No need to monitor bandwidth or connections. Lightsail load balancers are one simple price per month.
Block storage
Scale your storage quickly and easily with highly available SSD-backed storage for your Linux or Windows virtual server. Block storage starts at 8 GB and costs $0.10 USD per allocated GB per month.
Instance and disk snapshots (manual and automatic)
Point-in-time snapshots help back up the data on your Amazon Lightsail instances, managed databases, and block storage.
Lightsail for Research
Run your research applications in the cloud with just a browser. Below are the prices for Lightsail for Research bundles. Please note that prices differ based on your AWS Region selection.
*Standard plans include a data transfer allowance of 0.5 TB per month and GPU plans include a data transfer allowance of 1 TB per month. Only outbound data transfer in excess of your plan's data transfer allowance is subject to overage charges. Data transfer overage charges vary by AWS Region and start at $0.09 USD per GB. Please see the FAQ for more details.
**Research bundles will be charged at these prices only when instance is running. When instance is stopped, bundles will be charged $0.00685 USD/hr.
Pricing examples
Example 1:
You have a globally available WordPress website hosted on Amazon Lightsail. This website runs on a $5 / month Linux instance bundle with 1 GB memory, one core processor, a 40 GB SSD disk, and 2 TB transfer. The website uses a CDN distribution to serve content around the world with a year free up to 50 GB, and hosts its static content in a Lightsail object storage bucket with 5 GB storage and 25 GB transfer.
Lightsail charges:
WordPress instance = $5 USD / month
CDN distribution = Free first year
Object Storage bucket = $1 USD / month
Total charges: $6 to get your WordPress site delivered around the world
Example 2:
You are running two $5/month dualstack bundles for applications in US East (Ohio) region that use data transfer. Combined, these bundles provide you 4TB of data transfer allowance. Please note that this quota remains unchanged even if you delete and recreate one of these instances. You first consumed 2.2TB of ingress data transfer and then had 2.1TB of outgoing DT out in the month. Since your quota is exceeded for the month, you will be charged for data transfer overage, only on outgoing data transfer.
Lightsail charges:
Two instances = $5 USD / month x 2 = $10 USD / month
DT overage = 100 GB * $0.09 USD / GB = $9 USD / month
Total charges: $19 USD / month
Example 3:
You have a multi-tier web application running on Lightsail that includes a Nano container service with 0.25 (shared) vCPU and 512 MB of RAM, a load balancer, and a standard managed database with 1 GB of memory, one core processor, a 40 GB SSD Disk, 100 GB Transfer, and no data encryption.
Your monthly charges would be as follows:
Lightsail charges:
Container service = $7 USD / month
Database = $15 USD / month
Load balancer = $18 USD / month
Total charges: $40 USD / month
Example 4:
You ran simulations in RStudio using a Standard XL Lightsail for Research bundle with 4 vCPUs and 8 GB Memory. You also attached an additional 32 GB storage volume (block storage). The simulations were run for 20 hours after which you stopped the bundle, but did not delete the bundle. The bundle was in a stopped state for the rest of the month.
Lightsail charges:
Standard XL bundle running = 20 hours x $0.90 USD / hour = $18 USD
Standard XL bundle stopped = 710 hours x $0.00685 USD / hour = $4.86 USD
Block storage = $3.20 USD / month
Total charges: $26.06 USD / month to run your RStudio simulations for 20 hours and attach a 32 GB storage volume.
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