Most standard hosting sites will offer you hosting as cheap as 3$/month for Wordpress instances. They usually come with limits such as 2GB storage, 100GB data download and so on. AWS Lightsail combines Bitnami's hosting offered through AWS with all the standard AWS features. Unlimited data transfer (they are charged) and the ability to scale your storage to 100s of GBs in minutes! All of this and the ability to leverage AWS advanced infrastructure all starting at the cost of 3.5$/month.
But AWS already has EC2 instances
Although AWS already offers the all capable EC2 compute instances, Lightsail is AWS way of competing with DigitalOcean and other competitors which offer One Click app installations.
Click on the Lightsail link as shown below
Adding static IP makes sure that your instance will always have the same IP atttached to it. This can be very useful for DNS
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