Amazon Lightsail

2024/05/21 - 14 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for Amazon Lightsail instances to switch between dual-stack or IPv4 only and IPv6-only public IP address types.

2024/04/01 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support to upgrade the TLS version of the distribution.

2024/02/13 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support to upgrade the major version of a database.

2024/01/25 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for IPv6-only instance plans.

2024/01/04 - 2 new 88 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support to set up an HTTPS endpoint on an instance.

2023/06/13 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds pagination for the Get Certificates API operation.

2023/02/28 - 4 new 94 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds Lightsail for Research feature support, such as GUI session access, cost estimates, stop instance on idle, and disk auto mount.

2022/11/08 - 5 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for Amazon Lightsail to automate the delegation of domains registered through Amazon Route 53 to Lightsail DNS management and to automate record creation for DNS validation of Lightsail SSL/TLS certificates.

2022/09/23 - 1 new 88 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) support for Lightsail instances.

2022/05/26 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Lightsail now supports the ability to configure a Lightsail Container Service to pull images from Amazon ECR private repositories in your account.

2022/05/12 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support to include inactive database bundles in the response of the GetRelationalDatabaseBundles request.

2022/04/26 - 1 new 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for Lightsail load balancer HTTP to HTTPS redirect and TLS policy configuration.

2022/04/15 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support to describe the synchronization status of the account-level block public access feature for your Amazon Lightsail buckets.

2022/02/24 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support to delete and create Lightsail default key pairs that you can use with Lightsail instances.

2021/11/01 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support to enable access logging for buckets in the Lightsail object storage service.

2021/08/06 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support to track when a bucket access key was last used.

2021/07/14 - 11 new 110 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for the Amazon Lightsail object storage service, which allows you to create buckets and store objects.

2021/04/01 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   - This release adds support for state detail for Amazon Lightsail container services.

2021/01/12 - 1 new 83 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds IPv6 support for Amazon Lightsail instances, container services, CDN distributions, and load balancers.

2020/11/12 - 14 new 104 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for Amazon Lightsail container services. You can now create a Lightsail container service, and deploy Docker images to it.

2020/07/23 - 14 new 94 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for Amazon Lightsail content delivery network (CDN) distributions and SSL/TLS certificates.

2020/06/04 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds the BurstCapacityPercentage and BurstCapacityTime instance metrics, which allow you to track the burst capacity available to your instance.

2020/05/07 - 6 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for the following options in instance public ports: Specify source IP addresses, specify ICMP protocol like PING, and enable/disable the Lightsail browser-based SSH and RDP clients' access to your instance.

2020/02/27 - 8 new 86 updated api methods

Changes   Adds support to create notification contacts in Amazon Lightsail, and to create instance, database, and load balancer metric alarms that notify you based on the value of a metric relative to a threshold that you specify.

2020/01/02 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for Certificate Authority (CA) certificate identifier to managed databases in Amazon Lightsail.

2019/10/02 - 4 new 67 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for the automatic snapshots add-on for instances and block storage disks.

2019/03/21 - 1 new 59 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds the DeleteKnownHostKeys API, which enables Lightsail's browser-based SSH or RDP clients to connect to the instance after a host key mismatch.

2019/01/17 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds functionality to the CreateDiskSnapshot API that allows users to snapshot instance root volumes. It also adds various documentation updates.

2018/11/29 - 7 new 74 updated api methods

Changes   This update adds the following features: 1. Copy instance and disk snapshots within the same AWS Region or from one region to another in Amazon Lightsail. 2. Export Lightsail instance and disk snapshots to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). 3. Create an Amazon EC2 instance from an exported Lightsail instance snapshot using AWS CloudFormation stacks. 4. Apply tags to filter your Lightsail resources, or organize your costs, or control access.

2018/10/16 - 22 new 61 updated api methods

Changes   Adds support for Lightsail managed databases.

2017/11/30 - 12 new 49 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for load balancer and TLS/SSL certificate management. This set of APIs allows customers to create, manage, and scale secure load balanced applications on Lightsail infrastructure. To provide support for customers who manage their DNS on Lightsail, we've added the ability create an Alias A type record which can point to a load balancer DNS name via the CreateDomainEntry API http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lightsail/2016-11-28/api-reference/API_CreateDomainEntry.html.

2017/11/14 - 11 new 38 updated api methods

Changes   Lightsail now supports attached block storage, which allows you to scale your applications and protect application data with additional SSD-backed storage disks. This feature allows Lightsail customers to attach secure storage disks to their Lightsail instances and manage their attached disks, including creating and deleting disks, attaching and detaching disks from instances, and backing up disks via snapshot.

2017/10/19 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for Windows Server-based Lightsail instances. The GetInstanceAccessDetails API now returns the password of your Windows Server-based instance when using the default key pair. GetInstanceAccessDetails also returns a PasswordData object for Windows Server instances containing the ciphertext and keyPairName. The Blueprint data type now includes a list of platform values (LINUX_UNIX or WINDOWS). The Bundle data type now includes a list of SupportedPlatforms values (LINUX_UNIX or WINDOWS).

2017/06/22 - 39 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds a new nextPageToken property to the result of the GetOperationsForResource API. Developers can now get the next set of items in a list by making subsequent calls to GetOperationsForResource API with the token from the previous call. This release also deprecates the nextPageCount property, which previously returned null (use the nextPageToken property instead). This release also deprecates the customImageName property on the CreateInstancesRequest class, which was previously ignored by the API.

2017/05/18 - 1 new 27 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds new APIs that make it easier to set network port configurations on Lightsail instances. Developers can now make a single request to both open and close public ports on an instance using the PutInstancePublicPorts operation.

2016/11/30 - 47 new api methods

Changes   An extremely simplified VM creation and management service.