Getting Started with Amazon Lightsail

Step 1

Set up and log in to your AWS account

Step 2

Create an instance

Step 3

Create a container

Tutorials

Launch a Linux virtual machine


Learn how to get a new instance up and running on Lightsail.


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Create a WordPress website


This tutorial shows you how to launch and configure a WordPress instance on Lightsail.


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Create and deploy a container service

Learn how to create a container image on your local machine and then deploy it on Amazon Lightsail. 

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Step-by-step guides

Five Steps

Set up a Plesk application

You can get a Plesk hosting stack up and running on Amazon Lightsail in just a few minutes.

Five Steps

Create a load balanced WordPress website

This tutorial shows you how to create a load balanced WordPress website in Amazon Lightsail.

Five Steps

Serve a Flask app

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