Amazon LightSail

Shrihari Haridas
4 min readMar 4, 2023

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Amazon LightSail is a virtual private server (VPS) provider and is the easiest way to get started with AWS for developers, small businesses, students, and other users who need a solution to build and host their applications on cloud.

  1. Go to AWS LightSail service and create an Instance.
Open LightSail Window

2. Then Select the region

3. Then select the OS

4. Then select the blueprint. In a blueprint there is 2 options A. Apps + OS, B. OS only

5. I will select the option “A” with WordPress

6. After that in SSH key pair you select as default option or else you can put your previous use key (from upload option)

Select default option

7. Then you choose your instance plan accordingly your need

8. Then the give the name to your instance and choose how many instance do you want

9. And then create on click button

10. Wait for some time because LightSail create security group and creating a volume.

11. Now you can see it is on running mode

12. If you want to more option about instance like stop, terminate and other parameters then click on that instance you will see that screen

13. Now copy the IP address and paste it in browser you can see WordPress page

14. If you want to deploy your own then you need to public IP, username and key then firstly download default key pair

15. Then if you want to create Static IP then you need to go Home page of AWS LightSail and click on Networking tab & there you can see Static IP option

16. Click on create static IP and select instance and give name for your understanding

17. Then click on create button. now go back to again that instance and you can see instead of public IP you can see elastic or static IP there.

18. If you want to connect using SSH then click on connect using SSH and the console will open

19. If you want to login to WordPress dashboard then cat below file Username: user

20. You can see now after login to WordPress login

21. For Delete this instance firstly delete static IP which we created

22. after that stop that instance

23. and then click on terminate instance

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Shrihari Haridas
Shrihari Haridas

Written by Shrihari Haridas

Hello everyone, I am Shrihari Haridas I am a Cloud & DevOps Engineer, I work with most of DevOps Tools like, Jenkins, Git, Docker, etc.!& for Cloud AWS

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