G2 Vendor Directory

Amazon Lightsail vs. Akamai Cloud Computing

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAmazon Lightsail

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Akamai Cloud Computing

by Akamai Technologies

Overall rating4.34.6
Review count59410
Ease of use8.89.3
Ease of setup8.59.3
Quality of support8.09.2
Meets requirements8.79.2
NPS55.55555673.913043
Small Business55.9%72.1%
Mid-Market25.4%15.5%
Enterprise18.6%12.4%
Total page views2281,395
Total LLM citations1,73710,787

Amazon Lightsail

Amazon Lightsail is the easiest way to get started with AWS for developers, small businesses, students, and other users who need a simple virtual private server (VPS) solution. Lightsail provides developers compute, storage, and networking capacity and capabilities to deploy and manage websites and web applications in the cloud. Lightsail includes everything you need to launch your project quickly – a virtual machine, SSD-based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a static IP – for a low, predictable monthly price.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Management Ease
  • Configuration Ease
  • Efficiency
  • Reliability
  • Real-time Analytics

Akamai Cloud Computing

Akamai Cloud Computing is a platform and broad set of distributed cloud and edge computing services to help businesses build, deploy, and manage applications and workloads on the world’s most distributed network. Akamai’s distributed cloud computing platform is designed for developers and built by developers. The platform empowers developers to build apps and APIs using open standards designed to maximize portability and avoid lock-in. With core, distributed, and edge services, developers can choose where to deploy and scale compute, data, and security services, based on business needs.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Affordable
  • Features
  • Setup Ease
  • Easy Setup
  • User Interface