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Index › IT › Products › AWS Lightsail · November 2026 Edition
Cloud hosting · Named, not ranked

AWS Lightsail

AWS Lightsail is a cloud hosting service from AWS that provides low-cost, pre-configured cloud resources for building applications and websites · aws.amazon.com ↗

–Too few to rank
7/14Models named it
0First choices
1Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inCloud hosting #17 mid-market
What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. AWS Lightsail has 5.

Why models recommend it

“Lightsail offers fixed-rate instances starting around $3.50–$5/month with an easy migration path to full AWS services”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“a good choice if you may later move deeper into AWS”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · alternative

What gives them pause

No model argued against it.

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as AWS Lightsail, over the 12 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

ProductNamed togetherPicked instead
DigitalOcean Droplets
117View →
Hetzner
70View →
Amazon Web Services
62View →
Microsoft Azure
52View →
Akamai Connected Cloud
51View →
Google Cloud
50View →
Railway
30View →
Vultr
30View →
Kamatera
21View →
Render
21View →

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

At a glance

Stated on AWS Lightsail's own site, not checked by Gane.

For
Simple web apps; Websites; Dev/test environments; Small business apps
Price stated
low, predictable prices
Starting price
3.50
Free plan or trial
Try Lightsail for free
Hosting
東京リージョン
Also from AWS
AWS ACM, AWS ALB/ELB, AWS ALB/NLB, AWS API Gateway HTTP APIs, AWS Amazon Aurora, AWS App Runner and 84 more
Visit aws.amazon.com ↗

How this is measured

Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.

Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.

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Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named AWS Lightsail came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 9 of the 12 answers that named AWS Lightsail and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

aws.amazon.comIts own site3
cloud.google.com3
digitalocean.com3
github.com2
hetzner.com2
hostingadvice.com2
linkedin.com2
scalahosting.com2
zdnet.com2
accio.com1

Nineteen of the twenty-two domain citations in answers naming AWS Lightsail came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing3
cloud.google.com/run/pricing2
digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets2
scalahosting.com/blog/best-cloud-hosting-for-small-businesses2
accio.com/biz-cheap/inexpensive-cloud1
allaboutcookies.org/cheap-cloud-hosting-services1
atlantic.net/cloud-platform/best-cloud-hosting-providers-small-businesses1
azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-named-a-leader-in-the-forrester-wave-public-cloud1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on AWS Lightsail across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.2000101
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00202
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna01001
Muse Glimmer 30B00000