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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.

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.

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.