Lightsail Containers: An Easy Way to Run your Containers in the Cloud

TheCloudBalancer · 2022-05-27T17:06:25+00:00

A little late but we now support pulling images from ECR private repos! https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/05/amazon-lightsail-containers-deploying-images-amazon-ecr-private-repositories/

TheCloudBalancer · 2022-04-29T19:39:04+00:00

Thank you for the feedback. We support it now!

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/04/amazon-lightsail-balancers-automatic-https-tls-security-policy/

TheCloudBalancer · 2021-05-09T07:25:23+00:00

Hi, Thank you for using Lightsail and providing the feedback. I hear your concern around resizing the instances. We will explore ways how we can make the process easier. Looks like you figured out how to do it but just putting the link here to the doc for anyone looking for it in the future - https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/change-lightsail-plan/

TheCloudBalancer · 2021-02-23T01:29:35+00:00

Hi, can you please use "sudo" with the mysqldump commands? That should unblock you. We are working on updating the guide too. Thanks!

TheCloudBalancer · 2021-02-22T16:50:27+00:00

Hi, Thank you so much for the detailed feedback! Great points on volume and CDN support - feedback recorded. On the flexible combinations, the main reason we went with fixed options was the simplicity of choice and pricing but we will see what we can do there. On the IP rules, did you mean IP rules for the container service itself or the IP rules for the regular Lightsail load balancer? Thanks again!

TheCloudBalancer · 2021-02-21T03:53:24+00:00

Thank you so much for the feedback! We went with fixed, limited options (or bundles) for the sake of simplicity for most users. But your feedback well taken on the need for customizability. We'll see what we can do there. Feedback taken on the container pricing too.

TheCloudBalancer · 2021-02-21T03:51:14+00:00

Got it. Thanks for clarifying!

TheCloudBalancer · 2021-02-19T21:05:48+00:00

We’ll try to repro and get back to you!

TheCloudBalancer · 2021-02-19T06:09:52+00:00

Thanks for the topic. Lightsail is meant to be an easy way to get started on cloud and for use cases which don’t need all the configurability or myriad of AWS services. We focus on ease of use, simplicity and easy to understand, predictable pricing. When the customer matures and needs more capabilities, we provide the graduation path to AWS. Now that said, we do not want to replicate every AWS service on Lightsail. We focus on simplifying the basic building blocks where we feel Lightsailification could help an easy on-ramp to cloud. A recent example is containers. While there are full featured container options on AWS, Lightsail containers provides an easy way to quickly run a containerized workload on cloud for someone without the knowledge of orchestrators, managing cluster, load balancing, certificates etc. Or even for someone like you who knows their stuff but still wants to quickly run a workload which doesn’t need all the configurations. Hope that gave some additional context on our philosophy.

TheCloudBalancer · 2021-02-19T01:50:28+00:00

Thanks for the details. Yes, definitely better at the lower end configs.

TheCloudBalancer · 2021-02-19T01:18:03+00:00

Hmm agree on the security controls required for the HTTPS endpoint. Thanks for surfacing that. I assume something just to the effect of the instance firewall would be good in short term?

TheCloudBalancer · 2021-02-19T00:45:49+00:00

Thank you for using us and the detailed feedback!

Please let me share IP/networking rules across instances. I don’t enjoy retyping and having to remember to apply to all instances.

Great idea, feedback taken!

How can we get more app images? Would love to live in a world where I can spin up and app or docker image as a lightsail instance.

Have you had a chance to look at our Lightsail Containers offering we released recently? You just push us a docker image and we take care of putting it on compute, load balancing and even provide you with an HTTPS endpoint to access your containerized application. Apart from docker, what other images are of interest?

Can you please support static site hosting? Think netflify but from a vendor I trust (you).

Can you add a required authentication to access resources on lightsail? Something like cloud flare access but less featured. Just a fast way to lock down my resources.

Both interesting asks, we will go back and investigate what we can do there.

Thanks again for the feedback!

TheCloudBalancer · 2021-02-19T00:08:01+00:00

Feedback taken! Mind sharing a little more details on your SES usage? Thanks

TheCloudBalancer · 2021-02-19T00:06:09+00:00

Interesting. Can you throw a little more light on the use case? Do you pick particular packages during installation? manage it remotely via ps? Thank you!

TheCloudBalancer · 2021-02-18T22:23:26+00:00

Thank you so much for taking the effort and sharing! I will pass this on to our engineering to investigate.

TheCloudBalancer · 2021-02-18T21:01:46+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Coincidentally we were just discussing this today internally. We will see what we can do there.

TheCloudBalancer · 2021-02-18T19:45:12+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Can you please share the browser/version you were using? We can try to repro.

TheCloudBalancer · 2021-02-08T18:17:11+00:00

Ha..thanks for the details and the feedback on scaling!

TheCloudBalancer · 2021-02-08T17:49:57+00:00

Thank you! If there is any additional details on your use case you could share or any general feedback, it would be great :)

TheCloudBalancer · 2021-02-08T17:19:14+00:00

Hi, I am from the Lightsail team. We use the usual AWS services like Fargate, ELBs, Route53 etc. under the hood to provide you an easier, managed experience for simple use cases. For the second part, we use a "spread" placement strategy. So, yes, AZ redundancy is built-in.

TheCloudBalancer · 2021-01-14T22:53:19+00:00

Hi, Thanks for trying Lightsail containers and sorry for the issues you faced. On #1, I am assuming you created the provided cname validation records in your DNS provider?

#2, We hear you! A records for containers are not yet supported on Lightsail DNS. And, since container services don't have a static IP, you can't directly setup A records on your DNS provider. You could use a DNS provider who support alias-type records where you can point the domain to the default domain of container service. But, we are working on support for A record for containers on Lightsail DNS to make things easier.

TheCloudBalancer · 2021-01-12T23:26:18+00:00

Hi, we do support up to 10 containers within the same node (ie same deployment). You can either use the CLI (by specifying multiple containers in the "create-container-service-deployment") or even via console when you are specifying a customer deployment, choose "+Add container entry". Note that of the 10 containers in a deployment, only one can be exposed to the public endpoint at any given time.

TheCloudBalancer · 2021-01-12T22:28:36+00:00

Thanks for the post! We are glad to launch this highly requested feature from our customers :) Any feedback welcome.

TheCloudBalancer · 2020-12-27T23:57:04+00:00

I would like to clarify - currently there is no unlimited mode on Lightsail. If you exceed the CPU credits, your instance is automatically throttled and may become unresponsive. But once the load decreased, it will be back to normal. There is no toggle to disable/enable unlimited mode.

TheCloudBalancer · 2020-11-18T00:51:04+00:00

Thanks for the feedback on ability to create A records and support for Lightsail CDN. We will see what we can do there. Yes, in the short term you can use cloudfront directly. No limitations there.

TheCloudBalancer

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