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The success of upstarts like DigitalOcean that focus on simplicity has caught the attention of the cloud computing giant. For all of the success AWS has achieved, it's not exactly a simple service.

Tl;DR Networking in the Cloud Without domain name resolution and effective traffic routing, the cloud breaks. This proved true last month, when a DNS issue affecting the AWS us-east-1 DynamoDB API ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. is rolling out more cloud instance types, this time for its AWS Lightsail service. AWS Lightsail is a private virtual server offering introduced in 2016, aimed at small ...

AWS Lightsail, which launched in 2016, is Amazon’s answer to the rise of Digital Ocean, OVH and other affordable virtual private server (VPS) players. Lightsail started as a pretty basic service, but ...

AWS Lightsail is a Virtual Private Server environment that is designed to for use by small businesses or developers. Although Lightsail is primarily geared toward hosting web applications, Amazon made ...

Expert advice for organizations that outgrow AWS Lightsail and need to move their web applications to the more scalable EC2 platform. AWS Lightsail is designed to be an easy and cost-effective ...

AWS fired a shot across Digital Ocean’s bow this morning at the AWS re:Invent conference when it announced new virtual private servers starting at just $5 a month. The VPS service, called Lightsail, ...

There's no question that Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is the king of cloud computing. Amazon Web Services (AWS), the e-commerce giant's cloud computing arm, generated $3.2 billion of revenue during the third ...