What is "Amazon Lightsail" that allows you to use AWS like a VPS for just over 500 yen per month? ?

This is Ohara from the technical sales department.

This time, I will write about "Amazon Lightsail", which is called the AWS version of VPS.

Amazon Lightsail Overview

is a service that allows you to start using a VPS-like server in a few clicks when you need a server with a simple configuration

With a flat-rate pricing structure that includes server resources, SSD-based storage, and data transfer fees,
you can obtain an application execution environment and start using it without any complicated settings.

By the way, as of January 11, 2017,
the region is only available in East America (Northern Virginia).

Launch Amazon Lightsail

■ Select the machine image (app + OS or OS only) and configure the instance.
Here, select "LAMP Stack".

■ Next, select one of the five types of plans ranging from $5 per month (approximately 580 yen) to $80 per month (approximately 9,280 yen).
You can also try it out for free for one month (up to 750 hours) with the minimum plan, $5/month.
Since we are here, we will choose the minimum plan, which is $5 per month.

■ Select an Availability Zone, name the instance, and click Create to
launch the instance. Additionally, the only region currently available for selection is Northern Virginia.

■ After a few seconds, you can confirm that the instance has started as shown below.

■ After startup, you can log in from Connect.

summary

I felt that the operation was more intuitive compared to when launching a normal Amazon EC2 instance.
Isn't it good to use Amazon Lightsail for blogs and development environments?

Also, the current region is only available in the eastern United States (Northern Virginia), but
depending on the response, a region may be opened in Japan as well.