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.
"AWS has large community support."
"It's quite stable and scalable. The price is good as well."
"Very good automation and very stable."
"AWS's containerization is the most useful feature for us."
"I like the flexibility of this solution."
"For testing, it is a cheap alternative to having to build your own labs."
"It is flexible. It is quite comfortable to use for organizations."
"We have seen an improvement in our infrastructure, as the code makes it very easy to deploy quickly to AWS."
"Because of the way that their pricing model is set up, I can scale up or down the size of a customer's server very easily. It makes life very easy for me when they run out of space, need more speed or RAM, etc. I can very easily pay the difference and reboot the machine, and now I have the upgrade that I wanted. That just makes it extremely simple."
"The most valuable feature is the domain settings page."
"The fact that you can get a person on the phone has just been fantastic."
"The most valuable feature is that they are flexible and easy to get ahold of if I need something."
"Linode offers cost-effective pricing, and it enables me to swiftly deploy my services."
"They have a very nice web interface to allow you to manage and reorganize your server."
"The creation of instances is very good, as is their interface which is not complex and is easy to use. With the dashboard it is easy to create a new instance and add your favorite things. You can add Debian, Ubuntu, or CentOS, or any flavor of operating system. You can select the RAM for your instance as well."
"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."
"Amazon AWS is a very poor product for students. Microsoft Azure is a better solution."
"The IEM (Infrastructure Event Management) appears to be complicated, specifically cross-account resource permissions."
"There's not much room for improvement but that being said, they can improve the overall process of the overall product features and backend."
"The pricing of AWS is very unclear. They make it quite confusing."
"The difficulty of the implementation depends on the project. We have a lot of very complicated and complex project which make the implementation more difficult. However, a small project can be very simple to implement. In general, over 90% of the project tend to be complex implementations."
"I generally don't like the user experience of Amazon. It's not the best."
"The solution could offer better integration capabilities."
"We have had several issues with the products and services but as of now, there are no good alternatives."
"Its cost can be improved."
"The only improvement in this aspect of the service which I can think of is perhaps a pool of developers who could be hired for those cases where the need goes beyond the support offered."
"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."
"Because they are a smaller company, they do not have, for example, all of the ways for authentication that Amazon or Azure has."
"Everything is up-to-date for a small business. But for big business, they need to improve certain things. For example, there should be better security."
"When it comes to marketing and exposure, Linode needs improvement because I just randomly found them by looking for Linux solutions."
"They don't have role-based access control, which is problematic for us."
"They recently changed the web interface and although the older one did not look as good, the new one is less responsive."
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 Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, 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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