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AWS Service Terms[0] 51. Amazon Lightsail 51.3. You may not use Amazon Lightsail in a manner intended to avoid incurring data fees from other Services (e.g.,
by RKearney 5y ago
AWS Service Terms[0]
51. Amazon Lightsail
51.3. You may not use Amazon Lightsail in a manner intended to avoid incurring data fees from other Services (e.g., proxying network traffic from Services to the public internet or other destinations or excessive data processing through load balancing or content delivery network (CDN) Services as described in the Documentation), and if you do, we may throttle or suspend your data services or suspend your account.
[0] https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/ https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
- akerl_ 5y agoI think you’re expanding this clause past what it says. The clause prohibits you from using Lightsail to cheat other services. So, per their example, you couldn’t set up a Lightsail instance as a reverse proxy between the internet and an ELB, to take advantage of Lightsail’s higher transfer quotas and “in-region” traffic from Lightsail to ELBs. Hosting a site on Lightsail and hosting other things on other AWS services is fine.
- RKearney 5y agoI am not the OP. The terms indicate you cannot use it to proxy traffic to bypass bandwidth costs. The grandparent comment suggested using Lightsail to do this, and it is a violation of the TOS. The parent comment, however, stipulated that you are not allowed to use Lightsail at all, which is indeed wrong. I was just posting the relevant portion of the TOS which applies to the grandparent comment, and clarifies on the parent comment (which is inaccurate)
- klohto 5y agoThank you for the correction! Second time I made this claim but always forget it’s just about the traffic…
- Matheus28 5y agoThat's insane. But not a surprise, lightsail only exists so aws can say they offer similar pricing to Linode/DigitalOcean/Vultr/etc... as long as you don't ever plan to grow