[oefrha]

Cost and ease of onboarding. For $5/mo you get 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 25GB SSD, 1TB egress quota. Try calculating the egress cost alone for GCP or AWS.

[pansa2]

Amazon LightSail gives you 1 CPU, 1GB RAM, 40GB SSD and 2TB transfer for the same price.

[oefrha]

Amazon Lightsail launched way after Linode and DO have been established in the low-cost segment, and it was slightly more expensive than Linode and DO when it launched. It appears they've lowered their prices again in order to capture the market but mind share is still low.

[ksec]

Last time I tested it Amazon Lightsail was also way slower.

[tyingq]

It is. The "1 vcpu" is basically a lie. They throttle Lightsail viciously based on use.

[pansa2]

> mind share is still low.

I can tell that - many people in this thread are using “AWS” as though it’s synonymous with “EC2”.

[tastroder]

I assure you that the majority of users in these discussions is perfectly aware of the extent of the AWS ecosystem.

[thrwaway69]

I like the AWS ecosystem but I wouldn't touch it for anything that doesn't pay me back for monthly rent.

I build things with consideration to platform and vendor lock ins. Kube, containers, etc have resolved many deployment issues for me. For other things like authentication, logs, database, analytics, cache, search etc. There is parse, elastic/solid, postgres, redis, logio, ackee etc

Obviously, there are still many spaces left which AWS cover but most applications don't need them. Compliance is a big hurdle for businesses which they pay for. For individuals experimenting, not so much.