Managing your Amazon Lightsail instance

Last updated: January 9, 2023

In Lightsail, your virtual private server is called an instance. You can connect to your instance, manage your ports and firewall settings, view metrics, associate a static IP with your instance, and more. Choose a task to learn how to get the most out of your instance:

• Connecting to your Linux or Unix instance in Amazon Lightsail

• View metrics

• Create a static IP address and attach it to an instance

• Firewall and ports in Amazon Lightsail

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

• Start, stop, or restart your instance

• Force stop your instance