Amazon Lightsail Documentation
With Amazon Lightsail and Amazon Lightsail for Research, everyone—including
developers, academics, and researchers—can get started with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Amazon Lightsail
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). These features are all available for a low, predictable monthly price.
- Describes how to get started with Lightsail to create a development environment or an application.
- Describes all the API operations for Lightsail in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.
Amazon Lightsail for Research
Lightsail for Research provides academics and researchers access to virtual computers with pre-configured work applications. You can also configure rules to manage resource usage and cost.
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