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It's sad that this is so necessary, but I'm still confused by the very first two lines of this list. > EC2 Virtual Private Servers > Lightsail Amazon’s hosting
by drcongo 6y ago
It's sad that this is so necessary, but I'm still confused by the very first two lines of this list.
> EC2 Virtual Private Servers
> Lightsail Amazon’s hosting provider (vps, dns, storage)
Both of these are VPS? EC2 has no storage?
Absolutely not a criticism of your list, more a comment on how baffling AWS is these days. I stopped using AWS once they hit the point where I couldn't reasonably be expected to remember what all the three letter acronyms were. I still occasionally have to use it for S3, Route53 and IAM - but every time I log into the console I find that they've removed them from my "pinned" services in the menu bar and I have to pin them again. Even this tiny detail is enough to make me not want to have to deal with that * 1000 by taking up more of the services.
- OJFord 6y agoWell, to EC2 you attach storage from another AWS service. I've not used Lightsail, but from the description I imagine it's a more 'single package, quickstart' service mirroring the experience you might get from a PaaS like DigitalOcean/Scaleway/Vultr/etc. vs. the IaaS style provisioning of compute & storage independently.
- jitix 6y agoEC2 requires you to specify the attached storage to it, giving you more options; lightsail doesnt. Lightsail is more like the ye'old VPS services.
- callamdelaney 6y agoI think pinned items are on a browser basis - because I logged into another account on the same browser and it had the same pins as my other account, without me setting them.
- drcongo 6y agoI only use Safari for any actual browsing, I've not noticed this happening, just that whatever I pin is gone next time I log in. Maybe it's short lived cookie.
- scarface74 6y agoThink of LightSail as being more akin to Linode or Digital Ocean a simple straight forward VPS without having to setup a VPC and being bombarded with trying to navigate 150 services. It’s also straight forward pricing.
- choward 6y ago> I couldn't reasonably be expected to remember what all the three letter acronyms were. Just remember if you see an "S" it means simple. That means if you can't understand it you must be an idiot. S3 is one of the least simple things I've ever used.