# Amazon Lightsail

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-lightsail/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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. Lightsail provides developers compute, storage, and networking capacity and capabilities to deploy and manage websites and web applications in the cloud.

## Kin Score — 51.6 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 51.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 44.4 |
| Contract Quality | 71.3 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 50.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 59.2 |
| Access Clarity | 59.2 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (1)

- **Amazon Lightsail Instances API** — Lightsail virtual server instance management

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Lightsail Agentic Access** — 6 operations · 4 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (4)

- **Amazon Lightsail Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Amazon Lightsail Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Amazon Lightsail Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Amazon Lightsail Trust Center** — PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

## Plans (1)

- **Amazon Lightsail Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (3)

- **WordPress Hosting** — Host WordPress sites with pre-configured LAMP stacks at low, predictable cost.
- **Web Application Development** — Develop and test web applications on simple cloud infrastructure.
- **Small Business Websites** — Power small business websites with affordable, managed cloud hosting.

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/amazon-lightsail/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.