We compared Amazon AWS and Linode based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Amazon AWS provides a wide array of tools and services, offering extensive features and scalability. Nevertheless, the initial setup process may be more complicated than competing solutions, and AWS is considered costly. Linode is commended for its user-friendly interface, straightforward deployment, and dependable performance. However, some users have expressed worries regarding network connectivity, customer communication, and latency problems.
"The solution has very good Lambda functions within AWS."
"Amazon AWS contains a lot of helpful services."
"AWS has many integrations and plenty of tools available for anyone to take advantage of. There are new features being added all the time."
"The most valuable features are load balancers, databases, and S3 buckets."
"The compute and the elasticness of the compute is really great. Whenever there's a load, it automatically adds the servers and then reduces the servers based on the configuration. This is really wonderful, more cost-effective, and it's been really good for us."
"The product's scalability is good."
"Amazon AWS is user-friendly and intuitive."
"It's very stable and the performance is good."
"The most valuable feature is that they are flexible and easy to get ahold of if I need something."
"The most valuable features are the simple scalability and ease of starting a new virtual machine."
"The solution integrates easily."
"The ability to fire up a virtual machine, use it, and then kill it, is quite a valuable feature for me."
"The simplicity by which you can handle your inventory is one of the things I like the most."
"The cloud management panel is nice."
"Linode offers cost-effective pricing, and it enables me to swiftly deploy my services."
"For small businesses and people who have some technical skills and are good with Linux command line, this solution is great. I love Linode because it is very fast. Whereas, the same configuration on Azure and AWS will be so slow. The best thing is that their pricing and speed are great."
"They currently have fewer regions in Asia, especially in India, China, and other places. They can maybe put more data centers in this region."
"The pricing is expensive"
"AWS should provide even more support and engagement to accelerate the adoption of new services and features."
"I have trouble with the AWS command-line interface."
"AWS could be more scalable."
"I want to use AWS as a full solution for my website - for domain and website hosting, and everything in between - however, I was not able to find everything together."
"The problem with AWS is you have to keep up with the technology. If you don't stay up to date with the technology and its latest changes then you won't know what to use in your infrastructure."
"It's sometimes a challenge to manage billing on this platform. It takes a lot of labor to generate billing for our customers from the service on the cloud."
"Our primary concern is always the latency."
"One thing that I'd really like to see is auto-scaling node pools for their Kubernetes. I don't think that they have that. That's a huge one and would be very helpful. Specifically, what I would like is auto-scaling node pools that would scale down to zero nodes, which is tricky. That's very important for certain use cases."
"Right now, they don't have multiple data centers. They have limited data centers. I am currently using the Singapore and Mumbai data centers, but I am looking for data centers in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. They need to improve the availability of their data centers and partnership engagements with cloud Panda solution providers, like us."
"They are already working on the firewalls and VLANs, which need improvement, and are now in beta. I am on the beta program for the firewalls, but I can't use it yet because they are only in Mumbai and Australia, and I am not in those data centres. This is the one thing that I have been waiting for almost since the day that I joined them, so it is nice that they are doing that. The VLANs will be an improvement as well, and I am keen and waiting for that."
"It's not really an issue with Linode itself but upgrading Linux major versions can be challenging. It would be be fantastic if Linode developed a way to ease transitioning to a major new Linux upgrade."
"They could have more international servers. There are certain places throughout Europe and Eastern Europe which are very open to doing a lot of technology business, such as Romania. Romania is very open to technology. At other service providers, I have stuff in Romania. I think there are some Eastern European locations that would be more open to it. So, if they could have more European points of presence, that would be more helpful."
"I would like to see more seamless integration with backup, although it's pretty easy to do."
"The network between different servers isn't very good. I have to install additional solutions to link the servers with each other."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Linode is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Linode writes "Straightforward to set up, helpful support, and the Object Storage is useful for system backups". Amazon AWS is most compared with OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, whereas Linode is most compared with Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare, Google Kubernetes Engine and Amazon EKS. See our Amazon AWS vs. Linode report.
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