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Lightsail & AWS Batch: Simplified Hosting & Batch Computing
Two compute services at opposite ends of the simplicity spectrum from raw EC2 — Lightsail for a simple, predictable-priced starting point, and Batch for fire-and-forget large-scale job processing.
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🎓 Learning objectives
- •Explain what Lightsail bundles together and why it's positioned as an EC2 alternative for simple use cases
- •Explain what AWS Batch automates on top of EC2/Fargate for running large numbers of compute jobs
- •Describe when a workload has outgrown Lightsail and should move to EC2/ECS proper
- •Describe how Batch decides where and how to run a submitted job
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