AWS fired a shot across Digital Ocean’s bow this morning at the AWS re:Invent conference when it announced new virtual private servers starting at just $5 a month. The VPS service, called Lightsail, ...

Before the cloud, we often rented servers from hosting companies. We still do, but now Amazon is coming after those businesses with Amazon Lightsail. Amazon plans on beating these businesses by ...

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AWS Lightsail, which launched in 2016, is Amazon’s answer to the rise of Digital Ocean, OVH and other affordable virtual private server (VPS) players. Lightsail started as a pretty basic service, but ...

AWS and Google Cloud are rolling out a jointly engineered multicloud network service that promises faster, more reliable ...