AWS Lightsail vs OVHcloud

AWS Lightsail is strongest for AWS ecosystem users. OVHcloud is strongest for european data residency. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	AWS Lightsail	OVHcloud
Starting price	$0.8/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	AWS ecosystem users Predictable bundled pricing Windows workloads	European data residency Cost-conscious scale-outs Managed databases Kubernetes AI/GPU workloads
Stated uptime SLA	99.9%	99.99% (Public Cloud instances, region dependent)
Storage	SSD	NVME
Regions	16	33
Managed Kubernetes	No	Yes
Support channels	AWS Support plans (separate from Lightsail), Community forums, Docs	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Phone (paid plans)
Compliance	SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA eligible	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (France), HDS (health data hosting, France)
Hidden costs to watch for	Data transfer overage varies significantly by AWS region ($0.09-$0.132/GB) Windows bundles cost 70-90% more than equivalent Linux bundles	IPv4 addresses billed separately per instance/Local Zone Windows license surcharge of $0.039/vCore/hour on top of base instance price APAC region (India, Singapore, Australia) outbound traffic loses free-egress status after 2026-06-01/2026-12-31 depending on product Object Storage Infrequent Access / Cold Archive / Active Archive have data-retrieval fees and minimum storage durations (30-180 days) with early-deletion penalties
Last reviewed	2026-07-17	2026-07-18