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		ngrilly on Nov 30, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers o... Very smart move from Amazon. The main advantage of Amazon LightSail over DigitalOcean are: built-in firewall (instead of messing with iptables), managed database with AWS RDS, and using S3 with a low latency and no networking cost.

nodesocket on Nov 30, 2016 [–]

DigitalOcean must implement a centralized firewall. This is the missing piece for them.

edgan on Dec 1, 2016 | [–]

The best way to thing about security groups is that they are switch based firewall rules.

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