Amazon recently launched a new virtual private server offering called Amazon Lightsail. It is positioned to compete with other VPS providers like DigitalOcean, Vultr or Scaleway to name a few.

Instances start from $5 per month and come with static IP address support free of charge. Additionally there is a DNS management interface, which is using the Route53 as the underlying technology. The new offering comes outside the common AWS console, in a much more clean and simplistic appearance. There is no need to dive into security groups, vpc setup or complex firewall settings.

Getting Started

Since Lighsail accounts plugs nicely into other AWS services like S3 and Route53, which are well supported with Cloudron, it is a great way to get started with your own Cloudron installation, being able to install all apps from our Cloudron store in a few minutes.

The minimum requirement for Cloudron is 1GB main memory, make sure to select a server model with at least 1GB.

Cloudron is based on a server running pristine Ubuntu 16.04, so after creating an account at Amazon Lightsail a new server instance has to be created with that specific base OS:









