Any way to specify the private IP when creating an instance?

Not currently.

I wouldn't expect that to change any time soon.

It would be nice to have a private DHCP server for your own VCP.

Thanks for a quick answer.

I guess the attractive pricing of the Lightsail comes with certain restrictions like this.

Unfortunately, inability to fix the private IP addresses of the Lightsail instances makes it unsuited for our use case.

I haven't explored AWS yet, but I am wondering if AWS provides the possibility of pre-specifying the private IP addresses when creating EC2 instances.

Cheers,

I’ve been using lightsail for a number of years and have never seen the internal ip on any of my instances change after a reboot.

Thanks for sharing your valuable experience, David. That would resolve some of our concerns for the Lightsail instances that are kept running with occasional reboots and don't get deleted.

However, we still have a requirement for on-demand creation of Lightsail instances with pre-defined private IP addresses and it seems it's not possible to do so on Lightsail.

Cheers,

Yeah, it sounds like Lightsail is a bit too basic for your requirements.