AWS Web Hosting — Select the one that is right for you

In this article, you are going to learn the best alternative for you to build and host your website. There are at least 4 alternatives for hosting your application on AWS. There is no correct one, it depends on your final goal.

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Lightsail

This is the easiest way to launch a low-cost website using AWS.

Typically the best for low to medium traffic websites with multiple authors and more frequent content changes, such as marketing websites, content websites, or blogs.

Basically, you build your website just with a few clicks, you choose the platform (Linux or Windows), SSD storage, a blueprint (a template for your website, WordPress, Joomla), etc. All that you need to have a website hosting and running.

You can easily manage your web server, DNS, and IP addresses directly from the Lightsail console.

According to the AWS, this is the best for:

• Websites built on common applications like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento;
• Websites built on popular development stacks like LAMP, LEMP, MEAN, Node.Js;
• Websites that are unlikely to scale beyond 5 servers;
• Customers who want to manage their own web server and resources;