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As per https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/ , running a lightsail VPS with 512 MB Memory, 1 Core Processor costs $3.50 a month.

However, in that same link it shows that the lowest cost of containerized app on the service is twice as much at $7.00 a month with vCPU: 0.25 (shared) and RAM: 512MB

I'm not sure if these specs are directly comparable but it even seems like you get less processing power with this configuration as well.

So why wouldn't I just use the first option and setup docker in the VPS and run my containerized app that way? Amazon does just that in one of their own tutorials https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/building-a-pocket-platform-as-a-service-with-amazon-lightsail/

What am I missing?

timfoil
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Lightsail is the AWS consumer oriented service, priced to compete with Digital Ocean and such. It is a lot cheaper than EC2 or containers especially when you take bandwidth into account.

The reason... because AWS wants it to be that way. Maybe AWS want to lure people in with a good price then have them switch to a more fully featured, more expensive service.

Tim
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