[nanocyber]

If the article's evidence is the reality of Lightsail, it's clearly not a production platform. Amazon does state that the intent is really for developers to quickly spin up instances in which to experiment, and being able to use Amazon's unique Linux image that contains the latest AWS hooks makes for a good way to develop apps for later deployment to a fully-enabled AWS instance.

[markonen]

It's $10 a month. They do offer bigger instances. The t2.micro instance this maps to gives you 10% of a CPU and bursts to more. It's not much, but it is predictable and, crucially, not a function of the amount of oversubscription by the vendor or CPU use by your neighbours, both of which are typically unknown variables.