Cloud Projects
How can you use Lightsail? Let us count the ways… From hosting your website or web app to running software and dev environments, Lightsail can do it all.
Application Hosting
Ecommerce
Sell online easily with hosted Magento 2
Launch a Lightsail VPS pre-configured with Magento 2 to build a powerful and secure online store. Magento is a leading open source ecommerce platform and enables you to build an engaging online store quickly and inexpensively and scale it over time. Using Lightsail adds the security and reliability of AWS infrastructure to your Magento installation.
Email Server
Send and receive emails securely
Lightsail servers can be used as incoming mail server (POP3/IMAP) or outgoing mail server, running free and commercial software, like Postfix or Exim with Dovecot, Courier, Zimbra, Microsoft Exchange, and many others. Simply launch a Lightsail instance with an operating system of choice and install your mail server software.
Test Environments
Spin up a test servers in seconds
Lightsail supports the entire development process from testing to staging to production environments. For dev sandboxes and testing environments, Lightsail allows you to launch new, preconfigured servers in seconds and destroy them when you are done with a few clicks – all for pennies an hour.