Explore Lightsail resources for app deployment

The following list includes links to additional information for Amazon Lightsail that is not published in the Lightsail User Guide.

Contents

• Blogs

• Tutorials

• Videos

Blogs

• Monitoring the health of Amazon Lightsail instances with Datadog

  March 30, 2022 – Explore how monitoring Lightsail workloads with Datadog can help you ensure application performance and control costs.

• How to set up Galaxy for research on AWS using Amazon Lightsail

  January 13, 2022 – Deploy Galaxy, a scientific workflow, data integration, and digital preservation platform on Lightsail.

• What happens when you type a URL into your browser

  August 26, 2021 – What happens when you type a URL into your browser and press enter?

• Monitoring memory usage in Amazon Lightsail instance

  June 14, 2021 – Configure a Lightsail instance to send memory usage to Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring, alarming, and notifications.

• Frictionless hosting of containerized ASP.NET web apps using Amazon Lightsail

  June 10, 2021 – How to take a containerized ASP.NET web application that connects to a PostgreSQL database and deploy it to Lightsail.

• Launching a WordPress website using Amazon Lightsail containers

  April 5, 2021 – Launch a WordPress website using Lightsail containers and a Lightsail database.

• Lightsail containers: an easy way to run your containers in the cloud

  November 13, 2020 – Deploy your container‐based workloads on Lightsail.

• Migrating web services from Amazon Lightsail to Amazon EC2

  October 16, 2020 – Set up a production environment in Amazon EC2 and migrate a web service into that environment from Lightsail.

• Building a Graylog server to run on an Amazon Lightsail instance

  July 28, 2020 – How to build a Graylog server on Lightsail.

• Improving website performance with Lightsail content delivery network

  July 23, 2020 – Configure Lightsail distribution to work with both a standard web server in addition to WordPress.

• Proactively monitoring system performance on Amazon Lightsail instances

  June 4, 2020 – Configure a burstable capacity alert so you can prevent system performance issues before they impact your users.

• Enhancing site security with new Lightsail firewall features

  May 7, 2020 – Restrict remote access with SSH to a single source IP address.

• Using CodeDeploy and CodePipeline to deploy applications to Amazon Lightsail

  April 23, 2020 – Configure Lightsail to work with CodeDeploy and CodePipeline to automatically deploy (or update) an application every time you push a change to GitHub.

• Using load balancers on Amazon Lightsail

  April 21, 2020 – How to load balance a simple Node.js web application using an Amazon Lightsail load balancer.

• Building a photo diary on Amazon Lightsail with Ghost

  March 23, 2020 – Start a photo diary using Ghost on Lightsail.

• Amazon Lightsail database tips and tricks

  March 23, 2020 – Use advanced features found in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).

• Configuring and using monitoring and Notifications

  February 27, 2020 – Creating notification contacts, creating a new alarm, and testing out notifications with resource monitoring.

• Deploying a highly‐available WordPress site on Amazon Lightsail, Part 1: Implementing a highly‐available Lightsail database with WordPress

  October 22, 2019 – Build a highly‐available WordPress site on Lightsail, part 1.

• Deploying a highly‐available WordPress site on Amazon Lightsail, Part 2: Using Amazon S3 with WordPress to securely deliver media files

  October 31, 2019 – Build a highly‐available WordPress site on Lightsail, part 2.

• Deploying a highly‐available WordPress site on Amazon Lightsail, Part 3: Increasing security and performance using Amazon CloudFront

  November 7, 2019 – Build a highly‐available WordPress site on Lightsail, part 3.

• Deploying a highly‐available WordPress site on Amazon Lightsail, Part 4: Increasing performance and scalability with a Lightsail load balancer

  November 14, 2019 – Build a highly‐available WordPress site on Lightsail, part 4.

• Building a pocket platform‐as‐a‐service with Amazon Lightsail

  October 8, 2019 – Assemble a pocket platform on Lightsail.

• Deploying a Nginx‐based HTTP/HTTPS load balancer with Amazon Lightsail

  July 8, 2019 – Set up a NGINX‐based load balancer inside of a Lightsail instance.

• New to the AWS Cloud? Amazon Lightsail can help

  March 27, 2019 – Getting started on Amazon Lightsail.

• New – Managed databases for Amazon Lightsail

  October 16, 2018 – Create a managed database with a couple of clicks.

• Amazon Lightsail update: More instance sizes and price reductions

  August 23, 2018 – Lightsail instance overview.

• Amazon Lightsail: The power of AWS, the simplicity of a VPS

  November 30, 2016 – Lightsail launch announcement.

Tutorials

Top 5 hands‐on tutorials:

1. Create a load balanced WordPress website

   September 8, 2021 – Launch a highly available WordPress website with Lightsail.

2. Migrating and managing a WordPress website with Amazon Lightsail

   February 22, 2021 – Launch a clone of your WordPress website onto Lightsail using the Seahorse software.

3. Launch a Linux virtual machine

   September 11, 2020 – Launch, configure, and connect to a Linux instance with Lightsail.

4. Launch a Windows virtual machine

   September 11, 2020 – Launch, configure, and connect to a Windows instance with Lightsail.

5. Launch a cPanel and WHM instance on Amazon Lightsail

   July 27, 2020 – This tutorial walks through a few steps that you can take after your cPanel and WHM instance is up and running on Lightsail.

• How to setup and configure Magento on Amazon Lightsail

  August 11, 2021 – Get an e‐commerce site up and running.

• How to connect your WordPress site to an object storage bucket

  July 14, 2021 – Set up your WordPress site on Lightsail and connect the website to a Lightsail bucket.

• Create object storage buckets

  July 14, 2021 – Create an object storage bucket in Amazon Lightsail.

• Connecting a WordPress website to an Amazon Lightsail bucket and distribution

  July 14, 2021 – Configure your Lightsail bucket as the origin of a Lightsail content delivery network (CDN) distribution.

• How to setup and configure Plesk

  April 22, 2021 – Get a Plesk hosting stack up and running on Lightsail.

• How to Setup a Prestashop e–commerce site

  April 1, 2021 – Launch and configure a Lightsail instance using the PrestaShop Certified by Bitnami blueprint.

• How to Use Amazon EFS with Amazon Lightsail

  March 15, 2021 – Create and connect to an Amazon EFS file system from Lightsail instances using VPC peering.

• How to setup a Nginx reverse proxy

  February 10, 2021 – Set up a Nginx reverse proxy using Lightsail containers.

• How to Serve a Flask pp

  February 3, 2021 – Learn how to serve a Flask application with Lightsail containers.

• Creating, pushing, and deploying container images with Amazon Lightsail

  November 11, 2020 – Create a container image on your local machine using a Dockerfile.

• Build a Drupal website

  September 11, 2020 – Deploy and host a production‐ready Drupal website on Lightsail.

• Build a LAMP stack web App

  September 9, 2020 – Launch and run a highly available PHP web application on Lightsail.

• Configure your WordPress instance to work with your distribution

  July 16, 2020 – Configure your WordPress instance to work with your Lightsail distribution.

• Launch a WordPress website

  March 23, 2020 – Get a website up and running with WordPress installed on a Lightsail virtual machine.

• Host a .NET application

  March 20, 2020 – Build and deploy a .NET application using Lightsail.

• Map your domain at Amazon Route 53 to your Lightsail resources

  Route traffic for your domain, such as example.com, to your Lightsail resources.

Videos

• Amazon Lightsail Tutorial: Deploy a Django app

  July 14, 2021 – In this tutorial, you create a Django application.

• Amazon Lightsail Tutorial: Deploy a Flask app

  July 14, 2021 – In this tutorial, you create a Flask application.

• Amazon Lightsail Tutorial: Deploy a NGINX reverse proxy

  July 14, 2021 – Create a Flask application, build a Docker container, create a container service on Lightsail, and then deploy the application.

• Amazon Lightsail Tutorial: Deploy an e-commerce site

  July14, 2021 – Launch a Lightsail instance using the PrestaShop Certified by Bitnami blueprint, and configure it.

• Deploy a containerized application on Amazon Lightsail

  December 29, 2020 – Learn how to deploy a containerized application in Lightsail.

• Amazon Lightsail Tutorial: Build a Drupal website

  August 31, 2020 – Launch and configure a Drupal instance.

• Amazon Lightsail Tutorial: Deploy a LAMP Stack app

  August 31, 2020 – Deploy a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) stack application onto a single Lightsail instance.

• Amazon Lightsail Tutorial: Launch a Linux instance

  August 31, 2020 – Learn how to launch a Linux instance.

• Amazon Lightsail Tutorial: Launch a Windows instance

  August 31, 2020 – Learn how to launch a Windows instance.

• Amazon Lightsail Tutorial: Run your own Minecraft server

  August 31, 2020 – Learn how to set up a dedicated Minecraft server.

• Introduction to Amazon Lightsail tutorials

  August 31, 2020 – Get started on your cloud journey today with Lightsail.

• Amazon Lightsail: The easiest way to get started on AWS

  March 20, 2020 – Lightsail is the easiest way to get started on AWS. It offers virtual servers, storage, databases and networking, plus a cost‐effective, monthly plan.

• Configuring a Plesk instance in Amazon Lightsail

  March 27, 2019 – Learn how to configure a Plesk instance in Lightsail.

• Configuring WordPress Multisite in Amazon Lightsail

  January 15, 2019 – Learn how to configure a WordPress Multisite instance in Lightsail.

• Managing Lightsail

  October 9, 2018 – Take a quick look at Lightsail key features.

• Deploy a MEAN stack app on Amazon Lightsail

  June 5, 2018 – Use Lightsail's MEAN blueprint to deploy a custom application to the cloud.

• Deploy a WordPress instance on Amazon Lightsail

  June 5, 2018 – Deploy a WordPress instance on Lightsail.