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• AWS CloudFormation stacks for Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn how Amazon Lightsail uses AWS CloudFormation to create Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances from exported snapshots.

• Add alternate domains and subdomains to your SSL/TLS certificate in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to add alternate domains and subdomains to your Lightsail load balancer SSL/TLS certificate.

• Add blogs as domains to your WordPress Multisite instance in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to add blogs as domains to your WordPress Multisite instance in Amazon Lightsail.

• Add blogs as subdomains to your WordPress Multisite instance in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to add blogs as subdomains to your WordPress Multisite instance in Amazon Lightsail.

• Adding and editing firewall rules in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to edit the firewall rules to control the traffic that is allowed to connect to your Amazon Lightsail instance.

• Adding notification contacts in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to add your email address and mobile phone number as notification contacts in Amazon Lightsail to be notified about your resources.

• Adding tags to a resource in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to create and manage tags for your Amazon Lightsail resources.

• Alarms in Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn about alarms in Amazon Lightsail, and how to effectively configure them to monitor your resources.

• Amazon Lightsail Identity-Based Policy Examples

  Overviews

  Learn about identity-based policies in Amazon Lightsail.

• Amazon Lightsail Resource-Level Permissions Policy Examples

  Overviews

  Learn about resource-level policies in Amazon Lightsail.

• Amazon Lightsail health metrics

  Overviews

  Learn about the metrics that are available for instances, databases, distributions, and load balancers in Amazon Lightsail.

• Attach a validated SSL/TLS certificate to your Lightsail load balancer

  How tos

  Learn how to attach a validated SSL/TLS certificate to your Lightsail balancer.

• Best practices for securing Windows Server-based Lightsail instances

  Overviews

  Learn about security best practices for working with Windows Server-based Amazon Lightsail instances. Learn about managing passwords, patching your instance, and other best practices.

• Billing in Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Billing in Lightsail is handled through the AWS Billing and Cost Management Dashboard. Learn how to get there and manage your bill.

• Block storage disks in Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn about our highly available block storage disks in Lightsail, which use Amazon EBS volumes and SSD.

• Changing custom domains for your Amazon Lightsail distribution

  How tos

  Changing distribution custom domains

• Changing the automatic snapshot time for instances or disks in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to change the automatic snapshot time for an instance or block storage disk in Amazon Lightsail.

• Changing the caching behavior of your Amazon Lightsail distribution

  How tos

  Learn how to change the caching behavior of your distribution in Amazon Lightsail.

• Changing the capacity of your Amazon Lightsail container services

  How tos

  Learn how to change the capacity (power and scale) of your Amazon Lightsail container service.

• Changing the origin of your Amazon Lightsail distribution

  How tos

  Learn how to change the origin of your distribution in Amazon Lightsail.

• Changing the plan of your Amazon Lightsail distribution

  How tos

  Learn how to change the plan of your distribution in Amazon Lightsail

• Changing the preferred maintenance and backup windows for your database in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn about version upgrades for your managed database in Amazon Lightsail. This guide shows you how to define preferred maintenance and preferred backup windows for your database.

• Choose an Amazon Lightsail instance image

  Getting started

  Learn about the different Lightsail instance images, or blueprints. Compare applications and development stacks, as well as operating system templates.

• Choosing an Amazon Lightsail database

  Getting started

  Learn about the managed database options that are available in Amazon Lightsail.

• Compliance Validation for Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn what AWS services are in scope of a specific compliance program.

• Configure your Lightsail instances for load balancing

  How tos

  Learn how to configure your Lightsail instances for load balancing. For each application and development stack, we offer different recommendations for when and how to load balance your application.

• Configure your new Lightsail instance using Windows PowerShell or a batch script

  How tos

  Learn about creating a Windows PowerShell script that runs when you create a Lightsail instance.

• Configuring IPv6 on Debian 8 instances in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to configure IPv6 on a Debian 8 instance in Amazon Lightsail.

• Configuring IPv6 on GitLab instances in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

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• Configuring IPv6 on Nginx instances in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to configure IPv6 on a Nginx instance in Amazon Lightsail.

• Configuring IPv6 on Plesk instances in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to configure IPv6 on a Plesk instance in Amazon Lightsail.

• Configuring IPv6 on Ubuntu 16 instances in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to configure IPv6 on a Ubuntu 16 instance in Amazon Lightsail.

• Configuring IPv6 on cPanel instances in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to configure IPv6 on a cPanel WHM instance in Amazon Lightsail.

• Configuring reverse DNS for an email server on your Amazon Lightsail instance

  How tos

  Learn how to configure reverse DNS for an email server on your Amazon Lightsail instance by completing prerequisites, and submitting a request to AWS Support to remove outbound email messaging quotas.

• Configuring the AWS Command Line Interface to work with Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to install and configure the AWS Command Line Interface to work with Lightsail.

• Configuring the data import mode for your database in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to configure the data import mode for your Amazon Lightsail database to suspend backup operations. This enables you to import large amounts of data into your database without the database slowing down.

• Configuring the public mode for your database in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to make your database in Amazon Lightsail publicly available.

• Configuring your WordPress instance to work with your Amazon Lightsail distribution

  How tos

  Learn how to configure your WordPress instance to work with your Amazon Lightsail distribution.

• Connect to your Linux or Unix instance using SSH in terminal

  How tos

  Learn how to connect to your Linux or Unix Amazon Lightsail instance using the SSH in terminal from a Linux or Unix local machine, including macOS.

• Connect to your Linux/Unix-based Lightsail instance using PuTTY

  How tos

  Learn how to connect to your Linux/Unix-based Lightsail instance (a virtual private server) using PuTTY.

• Connecting to a Linux or Unix instance in Amazon EC2 created from an Amazon Lightsail snapshot

  How tos

  Learn how to connect to a Linux or Unix instance in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) created from an Amazon Lightsail snapshot. This guide shows you how to connect to your Linux or Unix instance using PuTTY.

• Connecting to a Windows Server instance in Amazon EC2 created from an Amazon Lightsail snapshot

  How tos

  Learn how to connect to a Windows Server instance in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) created from an Amazon Lightsail snapshot. This guide shows you how to connect to your Windows Server instance using Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection.

• Connecting to your Linux or Unix instance in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to connect to your Linux or Unix instance, or virtual private server, in Amazon Lightsail. In addition, learn how to copy and paste text when using the browser-based SSH client.

• Connecting to your Linux or Unix instance in Amazon Lightsail using SFTP

  How tos

  Learn how to connect to your Linux or Unix instance in Amazon Lightsail using SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP).

• Connecting to your MySQL database in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to obtain your MySQL database endpoint, port, user name, and password so that you can configure your database client to connect to your database in Amazon Lightsail.

• Connecting to your MySQL database in Amazon Lightsail using SSL

  How tos

  Learn how to use SSL to connect to your MySQL database in Amazon Lightsail.

• Connecting to your PostgreSQL database in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to obtain your PostgreSQL database endpoint, port, user name, and password so that you can configure your database client to connect to your database in Amazon Lightsail.

• Connecting to your PostgreSQL database in Amazon Lightsail using SSL

  How tos

  Learn how to use SSL to connect to your PostgreSQL database in Amazon Lightsail.

• Connecting to your Windows instance in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to connect to your Windows instance, or virtual private server, in Amazon Lightsail. In addition, learn how to copy and paste text when using the browser-based RDP client.

• Connecting to your Windows instance in Amazon Lightsail using the Remote Desktop Connection client

  How tos

  Learn how to connect to your Windows instance using the Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) client in Windows.

• Container services in Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn about Amazon Lightsail container services.

• Content delivery network distributions in Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn about Amazon Lightsail content delivery network (CDN) distributions, how they are configured, and how they are used.

• Contributing to the Amazon Lightsail documentation on GitHub

  How tos

  In this guide, we show you how to make contributions to the Amazon Lightsail documentation on GitHub.

• Copying snapshots from one AWS Region to another in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to copy an instance snapshot or block storage disk snapshot from one AWS Region to another, or within the same Region, in Amazon Lightsail.

• Create a Lightsail load balancer and attach instances to it

  How tos

  Learn how to create a Lightsail load balancer and attach Lightsail instances to it.

• Create a static IP and attach it to an instance in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to create a static IP address and attach it to an instance in Amazon Lightsail, so that you can retain the same IP address after restarting your instance.

• Create an Amazon Lightsail instance

  How tos

  Learn how to create a Amazon Lightsail instance and connect to it using the browser-based SSH terminal in the Lightsail console.

• Create an SSL/TLS certificate for your Lightsail load balancer

  How tos

  Learn how to create an SSL/TLS certificate for HTTPS encrypted web traffic.

• Create an access key to use the Amazon Lightsail API or the AWS Command Line Interface

  How tos

  Learn how to create a new access key to use the Amazon Lightsail API or the AWS Command Line Interface.

• Create and attach additional block storage disks to your Linux-based Lightsail instances

  How tos

  Learn how to create additional block storage disks that you can use with your Linux/Unix-based Lightsail instances. Learn how to format and mount the disks so that you can use them.

• Creating Amazon EBS volumes from exported Amazon Lightsail disk snapshots

  How tos

  Learn how to create an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume from an exported Amazon Lightsail disk snapshot using the Amazon EC2 console.

• Creating Amazon EC2 instances from exported snapshots in Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to create an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance from an exported Amazon Lightsail instance snapshot using the Create an Amazon EC2 instance page in the Lightsail console.

• Creating Amazon Lightsail container services

  How tos

  Learn how to create your Amazon Lightsail container service.

• Creating Amazon Lightsail distributions

  How tos

  Learn how to create a content delivery network (CDN) distribution in Amazon Lightsail.

• Creating SSL/TLS certificates for your Amazon Lightsail container services

  How tos

  Learn how to create SSL/TLS certificates for your Amazon Lightsail container service.

• Creating SSL/TLS certificates for your Amazon Lightsail distribution

  How tos

  Learn how to create a SSL/TLS certificate for your Amazon Lightsail distribution

• Creating a DNS zone to manage your domain’s DNS records in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to transfer management of your domain's DNS records to Amazon Lightsail so that you can easily direct traffic for your domain, like example.com, to your instance.

• Creating a block storage disk from a snapshot in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to create a new block storage disk from a snapshot in Lightsail.

• Creating a database from a point-in-time backup in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  You can create a new database by using a point-in-time backup in Amazon Lightsail.

• Creating a database from a snapshot in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to create a new database from a snapshot in Amazon Lightsail.

• Creating a database in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to create a managed database in Amazon Lightsail.

• Creating a larger Amazon Lightsail instance, block storage disk, or database from a snapshot using the AWS CLI

  How tos

  Learn how to use the Lightsail console or the AWS Command Line Interface to create a new, larger instance (or virtual private server) from a snapshot you have taken in Amazon Lightsail.

• Creating a larger instance, block storage disk, or database from a snapshot in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to create a larger instance, block storage disk, or database from a snapshot in Amazon Lightsail. You can do this using the Lightsail console or the AWS Command Line Interface.

• Creating a snapshot of an instance root volume in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to create a snapshot of an instance root volume in Amazon Lightsail. Then, access the files in the snapshot by creating a new block storage disk from the snapshot, and attaching it to another instance.

• Creating a snapshot of your Linux or Unix instance in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to create a snapshot of your Linux/Unix-based instance (a virtual private server) in Amazon Lightsail.

• Creating a snapshot of your Windows Server instance in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to create a snapshot of your Windows Server instance in Amazon Lightsail by running Sysprep.

• Creating a snapshot of your block storage disk in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to create a snapshot of your block storage disk in Amazon Lightsail.

• Creating a snapshot of your database in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to create a snapshot of your managed database in Amazon Lightsail. Use snapshots to restore a database if something goes wrong, or to create new databases with different plans than that of the original database.

• Creating an instance from a manual snapshot in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to create a an instance (a virtual private server) from a snapshot you have taken in Amazon Lightsail.

• Creating and attaching a block storage disk to your Windows Server instance in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to create and attach a block storage disk to your Windows Server instance in Amazon Lightsail. Learn how to initialize and bring the block storage disk online, so that you can format and use it.

• Creating and managing deployments for your Amazon Lightsail container services

  How tos

  Learn how to create a deployment in your Amazon Lightsail container service.

• Creating container images for your Amazon Lightsail container services

  How tos

  Learn how to create Docker container images using a Docker file. After your image is created, you can push it from your local machine to your Amazon Lightsail container service.

• Creating database metric alarms in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to create a database metric alarm in Amazon Lightsail.

• Creating distribution metric alarms in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to create a distribution metric alarm in Amazon Lightsail.

• Creating instance metric alarms in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to create an instance metric alarm in Amazon Lightsail.

• Creating load balancer metric alarms in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to create a load balancer metric alarm in Amazon Lightsail.

• DNS in Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn about the Domain Name System (DNS) and how to create a DNS zone in Amazon Lightsail.

• Databases in Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  With managed databases in Lightsail, you can easily set up, operate, and scale a MySQL or PostgreSQL database in the cloud.

• Define the primary domain for your WordPress Multisite instance in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to define the primary domain for a your WordPress Multisite in Amazon Lightsail.

• Delete a Lightsail load balancer

  How tos

  Learn how to delete a Lightsail load balancer and any associated SSL/TLS certificates.

• Delete a static IP in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to delete a static IP address in Amazon Lightsail using the Lightsail console or the AWS CLI.

• Delete an SSL/TLS certificate in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to delete an SSL/TLS certificate that you are no longer using.

• Deleting Amazon Lightsail container services

  How tos

  Learn how to delete your Amazon Lightsail container service.

• Deleting SSL/TLS certificates for your Amazon Lightsail distribution

  How tos

  Learn how to delete your Lightsail content delivery network (CDN) distribution.

• Deleting an Amazon Lightsail instance

  How tos

  Learn how to delete an instance using the Amazon Lightsail console.

• Deleting automatic snapshots of instances or disks in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to delete automatic snapshots of an instance or block storage disk in Amazon Lightsail.

• Deleting notification contacts in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to delete your email address and mobile phone number as notification contacts in Amazon Lightsail to stop receiving notifications in an AWS Region.

• Deleting or disabling metric alarms in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to delete metric alarms in Amazon Lightsail.

• Deleting snapshots in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to delete instance, database, and disk snapshots in Amazon Lightsail.

• Deleting tags in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to delete tags in Amazon Lightsail.

• Deleting your Amazon Lightsail distribution

  How tos

  Learn how to delete your Amazon Lightsail distribution.

• Deleting your database in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to delete your managed database in Amazon Lightsail.

• Detach and delete a block storage disk in Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to detach a block storage disk from a Lightsail instance so that you can delete it.

• Detach one or more instances from a Lightsail load balancer

  How tos

  Learn how to detach one or more Lightsail instances from a load balancer.

• Disabling custom domains for your Amazon Lightsail distributions

  How tos

  Learn how to disable custom domains on your Amazon Lightsail distribution.

• Download an SSL certificate for your managed database in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to download an SSL certificate that you can use to establish an SSL connection to a managed database in Amazon Lightsail.

• Download and set up PuTTY to connect using SSH in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to set up PuTTY to connect to your Lightsail instance (a virtual private server).

• Edit or delete a DNS zone in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to add, edit, or delete DNS records in your domain's DNS zone. You can also delete your domain's DNS zone in the Amazon Lightsail console.

• Enable session persistence for your load balancer in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to enable session persistence for your Lightsail load balancer. Learn how to adjust the cookie duration using the AWS Command Line Interface or the Lightsail API.

• Enabling HTTPS on your WordPress instance in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to enable HTTPS on your WordPress instance in Amazon Lightsail using the Bitnami HTTPS configuration tool.

• Enabling and disabling IPv6 for your resources in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to enable or disable IPv6 for your Amazon Lightsail resources so that they can communicate over IPv6 protocol.

• Enabling and managing custom domains for your Amazon Lightsail container services

  How tos

  Learn how to enable and manage custom domains for your Amazon Lightsail container service.

• Enabling custom domains for your Amazon Lightsail distributions

  How tos

  Learn how to use enable custom domains for your Amazon Lightsail distributions to use your registered domain names with your distributions.

• Enabling email on your WordPress instance in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  In this guide, we show you how to enable email on your WordPress instance in Amazon Lightsail using the Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) and the WP Mail SMTP plugin in WordPress.

• Enabling or disabling automatic snapshots for instances or disks in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to enable or disable automatic snapshots for an instance or block storage disk in Amazon Lightsail.

• Enabling the MySQL database general and slow query logs in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to enable the general and slow query logs for a MySQL database in Amazon Lightsail.

• Exporting Amazon Lightsail snapshots

  Overviews

  Learn about the process to export Amazon Lightsail instance and block storage disk snapshots to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

• Exporting Amazon Lightsail snapshots to Amazon EC2

  How tos

  Learn how to export Amazon Lightsail instance and block storage disk snapshots to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

• Extending the storage space of your Windows Server instance in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Extend the file system of your Windows Server instance in Amazon Lightsail to use the maximum storage space. This is useful if you see that the available storage space is lower than that specified by the plan you chose for the instance.

• Firewall rules reference

  How tos

  Learn about common firewall rules for Amazon Lightsail instances.

• Frequently Asked Questions in Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn about frequently asked questions (FAQs) in Amazon Lightsail, such as what Lightsail does, how much it costs, and how it works.

• Get started with Linux/Unix-based instances in Amazon Lightsail

  Getting started

  Sign up for Amazon Lightsail, and then learn how to create a Linux/Unix-based Lightsail instance and connect to it using a browser-based SSH terminal.

• Get started with Windows Server-based instances in Lightsail

  Getting started

  Get started using Amazon Lightsail blueprints that use the Windows Server platform. Learn about your OS and app choices, connecting to your instance, and more.

• Getting help in Amazon Lightsail

  Getting started

  Learn how to get help in Amazon Lightsail. There are two main help systems: the context-sensitive Help panel and the developer guide (or dev guide).

• Getting started using WordPress from your Amazon Lightsail instance

  Getting started

  Amazon Lightsail provides a WordPress image for blogging and creating a website. This topic tells you how to log in to your WordPress site and update your password, profile, and personal options.

• Getting the application user name and password for your 'Certified by Bitnami' instance in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to get the default user name and password to administer the applications running on your "Certified by Bitnami" instance in Amazon Lightsail.

• Health checking for your Lightsail load balancer

  How tos

  Learn what load balancer health checking in Lightsail is, and also learn how to customize where health checks are performed.

• High availability databases in Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn how high availability databases in Amazon Lightsail provide failover support for your managed database.

• How Amazon Lightsail Works with IAM

  Overviews

  Learn how Amazon Lightsail works with AWS Identity and Access Management.

• IP addresses in Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn about the different IP addresses of your Amazon Lightsail resources.

• Identity and Access Management for Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  How to authenticate requests and manage access your Lightsail resources.

• Importing data into your MySQL database in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to import a .SQL file into your MySQL managed database in Amazon Lightsail using MySQL Workbench.

• Importing data into your PostgreSQL database in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to import a database backup file into your PostgreSQL managed database in Amazon Lightsail using pgAdmin.

• Infrastructure Security in Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn how Amazon Lightsail isolates service traffic.

• Installing the Amazon Lightsail container services plugin

  How tos

  Learn about the software requried to create your own container images on your local machine and then push them to your Amazon Lightsail container service.

• Instance firewalls in Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn about the instance firewall in the Amazon Lightsail console, and how it controls the traffic that is allowed to connect to your instance.

• Instances (virtual private servers) in Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn about Lightsail instances, which are virtual private servers.

• Keeping automatic snapshots of instances or disks in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to keep automatic snapshots of an instance or block storage disk by copying them to manual snapshots in Amazon Lightsail.

• Lightsail load balancer health checking

  Overviews

  Learn about the type of health checking Lightsail does for load balancers. Learn about the different checks on instances and how to diagnose issues.

• Lightsail load balancers

  Overviews

  Learn about Lightsail load balancers, including what they do, when to use them, and how to create them.

• Logging Amazon Lightsail API calls with AWS CloudTrail

  How tos

  Learn about logging Amazon Lightsail with AWS CloudTrail.

• Managing access to Amazon Lightsail for an IAM user

  How tos

  In this guide, we show you how to manage access to Amazon Lightsail for an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user by creating an IAM policy, attaching the policy to an IAM group, and then creating IAM user and making them members of the group.

• Managing your Amazon Lightsail instance

  How tos

  Learn how to manage your Lightsail instance (a virtual private server) by connecting to it, creating a static IP, and doing other tasks.

• Managing your database password in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to change your database password in Amazon Lightsail. You can let Lightsail create a strong password for you or specify your own.

• Migrate an existing WordPress blog to Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to back up an existing WordPress blog or website, and then create a new WordPress instance in Amazon Lightsail. Migrate all your new existing WordPress content to Lightsail and take advantage of our low, predictable price for monthly hosting.

• Modifying your managed database in Amazon Lightsail to use a specific certificate

  How tos

  Learn how to modify your managed database in Amazon Lightsail to use a specific Certificate Authority certificate.

• Networking resources in Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn about the different networking resources in Lightsail, including when to use them, and how they can help you improve your website or web application.

• Notifications in Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn about notifications for your resources in Amazon Lightsail.

• Organizing your Amazon Lightsail resources using tags

  How tos

  Learn how to filter and organize your Amazon Lightsail resources using tags.

• Point your domain to your Lightsail load balancer

  How tos

  Learn how to add an Address (A) record to Lightsail or Amazon Route 53 to point customers to your Lightsail load balancer.

• Pointing your domains to your Amazon Lightsail container services

  How tos

  Learn how to route traffic for your custom domain, such as www.example.com, to your Amazon Lightsail container service.

• Pointing your domains to your Amazon Lightsail distributions

  How tos

  Learn how to point your registered domain name to your Amazon Lightsail distribution.

• Pushing and managing container images on your Amazon Lightsail container services

  How tos

  Learn how to push container images from your local machine to your Amazon Lightsail container service.

• Quick start guide: LAMP on Amazon Lightsail

  Getting started

  Learn the steps you should take to get started after your LAMP instance is up and running on Amazon Lightsail.

• Quick start guide: Nginx on Amazon Lightsail

  Getting started

  Learn the steps you should take to get started after your Nginx instance is up and running on Amazon Lightsail.

• Quick start guide: Node.js on Amazon Lightsail

  Getting started

  Learn the steps you should take to get started after your Node.js instance is up and running on Amazon Lightsail.

• Quick start guide: Plesk on Amazon Lightsail

  Getting started

  Learn the steps you should take to get started after your Plesk instance is up and running on Amazon Lightsail.

• Quick start guide: PrestaShop on Amazon Lightsail

  Getting started

  Learn the steps you should take to get started after your PrestaShop instance is up and running on Amazon Lightsail.

• Quick start guide: WordPress on Amazon Lightsail

  Getting started

  Learn the steps you should take to get started after your WordPress instance is up and running on Amazon Lightsail.

• Quick start guide: cPanel WHM on Amazon Lightsail

  Getting started

  Learn the steps you should take to get started after your cPanel WHM instance is up and running on Amazon Lightsail.

• Regions and Availability Zones in Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn about the AWS Regions where Amazon Lightsail is available. Learn about the multiple Availability Zones in those AWS Regions.

• Remove the Bitnami banner from "Certified by Bitnami" blueprint applications on Amazon Lightsail instances

  How tos

  Learn how to remove the Bitnami banner from the home page of your application on a Amazon Lightsail instance.

• Resetting the cache of your Amazon Lightsail distribution

  How tos

  Learn how to reset the cache of your distribution in Amazon Lightsail

• Resilience in Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn how AWS architecture supports data redundancy, and learn about specific Amazon Lightsail features for data resiliency.

• Resource metrics in Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn about the metrics that are available for instances, databases, distributions, and load balancers in Amazon Lightsail.

• Resources in Amazon Lightsail and AWS

  Overviews

  Learn what a resource is in AWS and the types of resources available in Lightsail.

• SSH and connecting to your Lightsail instance

  Overviews

  Learn about Secure SHell (SSH) in Lightsail. Learn about public and private keys, and how to use SSH to connect to your Lightsail instance.

• SSL/TLS certificates in Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn about SSL/TLS certificates in Lightsail, including how we use them with Lightsail load balancers and distributions, how you can configure your web application to handle encrypted (HTTPS) requests, and how to verify domain ownership using DNS.

• Securing a Linux or Unix instance in Amazon EC2 created from an Amazon Lightsail snapshot

  How tos

  Learn how to secure a Linux or Unix instance in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) created from an Lightsail snapshot.

• Securing a Windows Server instance in Amazon EC2 created from an Amazon Lightsail snapshot

  How tos

  Learn how to secure your Windows instance in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) created from an Amazon Lightsail snapshot.

• Security in Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Configure Amazon Lightsail to meet your security and compliance objectives, and learn how to use other AWS services that help you to secure your Lightsail resources.

• Set up Amazon VPC peering to work with AWS resources outside of Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to set up VPC peering to connect to your Lightsail resources to AWS resources, such as an Amazon RDS database.

• Set up SSH for your Linux/Unix-based Lightsail instances

  How tos

  Learn how to set up a Secure SHell (SSH) connection to your Linux/Unix-based Lightsail instance (a virtual private server).

• Set up and configure Plesk on Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to set up a Plesk hosting stack and configure it so that it's ready to use.

• Snapshots in Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn about snapshots, or backups, in Amazon Lightsail. You can create snapshots of instances, databases, and block storage disks in Lightsail.

• Start, stop, or restart your Amazon Lightsail instance

  How tos

  Learn how to start, stop, or restart your Amazon Lightsail instance (a virtual private server).

• Static IP addresses in Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn about static IP addresses and how you can keep the same public IP address when you restart your instance.

• Support for resource-level permissions and authorization based on tags in Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn about support for resource-level permissions and authorization based on tags in Amazon Lightsail.

• Tags in Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn about tags and tagging best practices in Amazon Lightsail.

• Task monitor in Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn about the task monitor in the Amazon Lightsail console.

• Testing your Amazon Lightsail distribution

  How tos

  Learn how to test a content delivery network (CDN) distribution after you create in in Amazon Lightsail.

• Troubleshooting Amazon Lightsail Identity and Access

  Overviews

  Learn about resource-based policies in Amazon Lightsail.

• Troubleshooting Lightsail SSL/TLS certificate issues

  Overviews

  Learn about common errors when creating and managing Lightsail TLS/SSL certificates. Use our troubleshooting guide to fix problems with your certs.

• Troubleshooting Lightsail load balancer issues

  Overviews

  Learn about common errors when creating and managing Lightsail load balancers. Use our troubleshooting guide to fix problems with your load balancer.

• Troubleshooting a 403 (unauthorized) error and getting back into Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  In this guide, we show you what to do to troubleshoot the 403 error that you may encounter when trying to access Amazon Lightsail.

• Troubleshooting connection issues with the Amazon Lightsail browser-based SSH or RDP client

  How tos

  Learn about the errors that you might experience when trying to connect to an instance using the browser-based SSH or RDP clients in the Amazon Lightsail console.

• Troubleshooting disk issues in Lightsail

  Overviews

  Learn about common errors when creating and managing block storage disks in Lightsail. Use our troubleshooting guide to fix problems with your disks.

• Troubleshooting notifications in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to troubleshoot notifications in Amazon Lightsail. The steps in this procedure can help you diagnose why you might not be receiving notifications for your Lightsail resources.

• Troubleshooting the 503 service unavailable error for a Ghost instance in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to how to troubleshoot the service unavailable error after you create a Ghost instance in Amazon Lightsail.

• Tutorial: Connect a WordPress website in Amazon Lightsail to an Amazon S3 bucket

  How tos

  Learn how to connect your WordPress website running on an Amazon Lightsail instance to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket to store website images and attachments.

• Tutorial: Connecting your WordPress website to a MySQL managed database in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to connect a WordPress website to a MySQL managed database in Amazon Lightsail.

• Tutorial: Launch and configure a LAMP instance in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  This tutorial shows you how to launch and configure a LAMP instance in Lightsail in approximately 10 minutes.

• Tutorial: Launch and configure a Windows Server 2016 instance in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  This tutorial shows you how to launch and configure a Windows Server 2016 instance in Lightsail in approximately 10 minutes.

• Tutorial: Launch and configure a WordPress instance in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  This tutorial shows you how to launch and configure a WordPress instance in Lightsail in approximately 10 minutes.

• Tutorial: Migrate data from a MySQL 5.6 database to a newer database version in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to migrate data from a MySQL 5.6 database to a MySQL 5.7 database in Amazon Lightsail.

• Tutorial: Using Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates with your LAMP instance in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to use a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate with your LAMP instance in Amazon Lightsail. This tutorial shows you how to request a Let’s Encrypt wildcard certificate using Certbot, and integrate it with your LAMP instance.

• Tutorial: Using Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates with your Nginx instance in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to use a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate with your Nginx instance in Amazon Lightsail. This tutorial shows you how to request a Let’s Encrypt wildcard certificate using Certbot, and integrate it with your Nginx instance.

• Tutorial: Using Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates with your WordPress instance in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to use a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate with your WordPress instance in Amazon Lightsail. This tutorial shows you how to request a Let’s Encrypt wildcard certificate using Certbot, and integrate it with your WordPress instance using the Really Simple SSL plugin.

• Understanding request and response behaviors of your Amazon Lightsail distribution

  How tos

  Learn about the request and response behavior of a Amazon Lightsail distribution.

• Update the settings for your Lightsail load balancer

  How tos

  Learn how to update the settings for your load balancer. Do things like set up HTTPS (using an SSL/TLS certificate), enable session persistence, or set up health checking.

• Updating Amazon EC2 instances for enhanced networking

  How tos

  Learn about enhanced networking and how to upgrade your Amazon EC2 instance after creating it from an exported Lightsail snapshot.

• Updating database parameters in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to get a list of the parameters for your managed database in Amazon Lightsail and how to update them using the AWS Command Line Interface.

• Use a launch script to configure your Amazon Lightsail instance when it starts up

  How tos

  Learn how to configure a Linux/Unix-based virtual private server (a virtual machine or instance) with additional data in Amazon Lightsail.

• Using Amazon Lightsail with other AWS services

  Overviews

  Learn about integrating Lightsail with resources in other AWS services, such as Amazon RDS, AWS Lambda, and others.

• Using Amazon Route 53 to point a domain to an Amazon Lightsail instance

  How tos

  In this guide, we show you how to point a domain name to an Amazon Lightsail instance using Amazon Route 53.

• Using Service-Linked Roles for Amazon Lightsail

  Overviews

  How to use service-linked roles to give Lightsail access to resources in your AWS account.

• Using tags to control access to your Amazon Lightsail resources

  How tos

  Learn how to create key-value tags to control access in Amazon Lightsail.

• Using tags to organize costs for your Amazon Lightsail resources

  How tos

  Learn how to create key-value tags to track costs in Amazon Lightsail.

• Using the non-default key with Windows-based Lightsail instances

  How tos

  Learn about using a non-default key with your Windows-based Lightsail instance.

• Validating SSL/TLS certificates for your Amazon Lightsail container services

  How tos

  Learn how to validate an SSL/TLS certificate for your Amazon Lightsail container service.

• Validating SSL/TLS certificates for your Amazon Lightsail distribution

  How tos

  Learn how to validate an SSL/TLS certificate for your Amazon Lightsail distribution.

• Verify an SSL/TLS certificate in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to verify an SSL/TLS certificate using a DNS zone in Amazon Lightsail.

• Viewing SSL/TLS certificates for your Amazon Lightsail container services

  How tos

  Learn how to view SSL/TLS certificates for your Amazon Lightsail container service.

• Viewing SSL/TLS certificates for your Amazon Lightsail distribution

  How tos

  Learn how to view your distribution SSL/TLS certificates in the Amazon Lightsail console.

• Viewing and managing deployment versions of your Amazon Lightsail container services

  How tos

  Learn how to view and manage the deployment versions of your Amazon Lightsail container service.

• Viewing container service metrics in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn about the utilization metrics that are available for your Amazon Lightsail container service, and how to view them.

• Viewing database metrics in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to view metrics for your database in Amazon Lightsail.

• Viewing distribution metrics in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to view metrics for your Amazon Lightsail distribution..

• Viewing instance burst capacity in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to view CPU overview graphs, and burst capacity metrics for your instances in Amazon Lightsail.

• Viewing instance metrics in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to view metrics for your instances in Amazon Lightsail.

• Viewing the container logs of your Amazon Lightsail container services

  How tos

  Learn about container logs for your Amazon Lightsail container service.

• Viewing your database logs and history in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to view your database logs in Amazon Lightsail. These logs include the general log, slow query log, and error log.

• Viewing your load balancer health metrics in Amazon Lightsail

  How tos

  Learn how to view metrics for your load balancer in Amazon Lightsail.

• What is Amazon Lightsail?

  Getting started

  Learn about how Amazon Lightsail works and what you can do with your virtual private server (a Lightsail instance).