Spin up your Online Store in Minutes with Bitnami Prestashop and AWS Lightsail

Regardless of whether you are using a cloud provider for the first time or are an experienced user, Amazon Lightsail is a proven choice for running your websites and applications. 

If you are planning to initiate your own e-commerce website, chances are that you will select Prestashop as the solution for launching your online store. We are delighted to announce that Amazon Lightsail just expanded its catalog and included the Prestashop Certified by Bitnami image. 

Follow this guide to get Prestashop set up and running on Amazon Lightsail with just a few clicks.

Now you can get your business running on the cloud within minutes! 

Bitnami Prestashop and Amazon Lightsail: The easiest and most reliable way to build your e-commerce store

Prestashop is unquestionably one of the most popular open-source e-commerce solutions among both developers and merchants. It provides more than 2000 themes and 3500 free and paid modules for you to customise your site. Bitnami has pre-packaged a blueprint image for Amazon Lightsail that bundles the most up to date and secure version of Prestashop and its components. 

It takes just a few clicks to have your site go live online. First, you need to log in to your Amazon Lightsail account and click “Create instance”. Then choose Linux/Unix as a platform and pick Prestashop from the list of available blueprints. Name your instance and click “Create Instance”. 

This will spin up a server with the Bitnami Prestashop image running on it. Getting the application password and the IP address of your Prestashop website is super easy thanks to the intuitive user interface, and you’re done!

To get the best out of Prestashop on your Amazon Lightsail server, check out this get started guide and the documentation for managing your Bitnami Prestashop image on Amazon Lightsail. 

Amplifying our Focus on Cloud-Native Applications

Bitnami’s mission is to make popular software available for everyone, everywhere. Bitnami simplifies the management of multi-cloud, cross-platform environments by providing functionally equivalent, platform-optimized application and infrastructure stacks for all software offerings. Since the VMware acquisition, we have had an opportunity to both double-down on the breadth and depth of our current offerings and bring Bitnami to even more clouds.

Last year we released Tanzu Application Catalog, a customizable selection of open source software from the Bitnami Application Catalog that most of you already know and love. 

The Tanzu Application Catalog is continuously maintained and verifiably tested for use in production environments. It gives developers the productivity and agility of pre-packaged apps and components, while enabling operators to meet the stringent security and transparency requirements of enterprise IT. 

The Bitnami Open Source catalog for Containers and Helm Charts is being adopted by a large number of users and we continue to provide an excellent service to bring secure, well-configured and up-to-date container images.

Continuing to focus on increased investment to help the community adopt Cloud Native solutions, the Bitnami team plans on discontinuing the support for the majority of Native Installers for Linux by June 30th, 2021. We will continue releasing some of the most popular ones like WordPress, LAMP, or LAPP.

This change will only affect Linux native installers. Bitnami will continue building and maintaining up-to-date Cloud Images, Virtual Machines, Containers, and Helm Charts. If you are a user of the Linux native installers, we would recommend that you explore and adopt other supported deployment options like:

• Cloud Images in your preferred cloud platform: VMware Marketplace, AWS, Azure, Google, or IBM.
• Virtual Machines for your Desktop or servers.
• Containers for development or Helm Charts for Kubernetes environments.

If you are interested in getting any previous versions of those native installers, please request them in our Community forums https://community.bitnami.com. We will be happy to assist you there! 

Learn More

For a host of information and tutorials about using Bitnami containers and Helm charts in Kubernetes, visit the Bitnami tutorials page.