Posted On: May 7, 2024

Amazon Lightsail now offers a larger instance bundle with 16 vCPUs and 64 GB memory. The new instance bundle is available with Linux operating system (OS) and application blueprints, for both IPv6-only and dual-stack networking types. You can create instances using the new bundle with pre-configured Linux OS and application blueprints including WordPress, Drupal, Magento, MEAN, LAMP, Node.js, Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS Stream, and AlmaLinux. 

The new larger instance bundle enables you to scale your web applications and run more compute and memory intensive workloads in Lightsail. This higher performance instance bundle is ideal for general purpose workloads that require ability to handle large spikes in load. Using this new bundle, you can run web and application servers, large databases, virtual desktops, batch processing, enterprise applications, and more.

This new bundle is now available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Lightsail is available. For more information on pricing, or to get started with your free account, click here.