Sometimes I feel it is easier described by saying what its main competitor is.
Lightsail is basically AWS' version of Heroku and App Engine.
(i.e. a PAAS)
I wish Google would also do this. Many times on GCP's website or at Google Next you try to decipher what the product is that they are talking about, then you realise "ah, it is their version of S3, CloudFormation etc". If they just had said that at the start...
Of course, no company will do this, unfortunately.
I've seen companies post feature comparison charts listing competitors, they are very useful when switching from a different provider or discovering what the product does in terms of established player
Look for "Object Storange" for instance and in the row will be links to all the competing services, so you could pretty easily do this to learn about competitors through the one you know... At least for the big players.
Lightsail is basically AWS' version of Heroku and App Engine.
(i.e. a PAAS)
I wish Google would also do this. Many times on GCP's website or at Google Next you try to decipher what the product is that they are talking about, then you realise "ah, it is their version of S3, CloudFormation etc". If they just had said that at the start...
Of course, no company will do this, unfortunately.