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Virtual Private Server (VPS) platform from Amazon Web Services

Amazon Lightsail is a simplified and minimalistic Virtual Private Server (VPS) platform, part of the Amazon Web Sevices infrastructure.

NOTE: Since there are a number of OS options available on Lightsail, it will help people answer your question if you indicate what blueprint you are using.

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Can't establish VPC peering connection from Amazon Lightsail

AWS has a new barebones VPS offering, Lightsail, which is sort of an EC2-Lite -- extremely light -- offering with just a few fixed-size instance classes, simplified pricing, and very few options, along with] its own very minimalistic console, as I…
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Auto Scaling AWS Lightsail

The docs for lightsail suggest that it can be connected to most AWS services. Is it possible to have a load balancer distribute to different lightsail instances and to automatically launch new lightsail instances if I'm getting high traffic? Or is…
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Remote Connect to MySql AWS Lightsail

I'm setting up a new server on AWS Lightsail and all is good, but in my LEMP stack, I installed MySql and created my DB. For some reason though I cannot remote into that DB via my DB client (using TablePlus). In the past using Vultr or Digital Ocean…
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Lightsail instance requests time out with domain name but work with IP address

I'm attempting to create a BookStack site on an Amazon Lightsail instance. I'm having an issue where my static public IP address attached to my Lightsail instance will go to my site just fine, from any browser or computer. However, my domain address…
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Is the Static IP in Lightsail same as Elastic IP?

What is the difference between Static IP in Lightsail, and an Elastic IP if any? I am trying to request a reverse DNS entry with AWS for my mail server. I did not have a Lightsail Static IP and the support team said I need an Elastic IP. So I added…
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Postfix sending emails with delay

I am running Ubuntu 16.04 on Amazon Lightsail. I just configures Postfix to send emails. If I send an email after a few hours the email is received instantly. If I send multiple emails at one the emails get delayed for about 10-30…
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AWS Lightsail Load Balancer and Too Many Redirects

I have spent several hours trying to figure out why once I put my instance containing my website behind a load balancer, I keep getting the "Too Many Redirects" error. I have a Windows Server instance behind my load balancer with an SSL certificate…
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How to resolve nginx internal server error

I'm configuring Nginx as a public-facing proxy server to my internal Gunicorn server to host a "Reddit clone" Flask project I'm developing. At one point, Nginx was working properly (when I'd used mostly the same configuration as an online tutorial),…
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PHP-FPM + nginx producing a permission denied, but only on certain large pages

I have an AWS Lightsail instance (1GB RAM instance) running a relatively new website (i.e. virtually no traffic). It's running nginx and PHP-FPM 7.3 (tried with 7.2 as well) and MariaDB. All of this is under CentOS 7. Everything worked fine under…
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How to install the brotli nginx module properly on debian

I'm trying to setup brotly compression on a nginx/1.10.3 server running on Debian 9.5 Stretch / Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.110-3+deb9u5 (on a lightsail instance). I used the following commands to try to install it: $ sudo…
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Is it possible to get instanceName in userData when create multiple AWS Lightsail instances?

I use python api boto3 to manage the creation of Lightsail instance, and link the nodes created to salt-master, here is part of the code: boot_script=''' curl -L https://bootstrap.saltstack.com -o install_salt.sh sh install_salt.sh -P sed -i…
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Can't SSH to Amazon Lightsail server using browser-based client

I've been able to use the browser-based SSH client without any issues until today. Now, I'm getting the following error each time I try to connect. I've tried restarting, stopping/starting, and removing/adding back the static IP. CONNECTION ERROR …
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How can I attach persistent storage to an AWS Lightsail container?

AWS Lightsail supports container services, with deployment - kind of Docker compose structure. Add multiple containers, specify environment variables, and entrypoint, and choose to add a public IP. Separately, Lightsail offers storage, as a block…
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How to reverse proxy a Nodejs instance on a directory of an AWS lightsail website

I have a website and Nodejs application hosted on the same AWS lightsail instance such that I want the website to connect to use the data hosted by the Nodejs application. The API is hosted on port 7200 of www.spidercartographers.co.uk such that the…
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Assign a static IP to an instance in Amazon Amplify

I have a static website and would like to get data using AJAX from a third-party API. The third-party API needs to add the server IP address to its whitelist to allow me to get the data. For this reason I would need a static IP address for the…
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