We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Container Service and Linode based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware and others in Container Management."It has helped our organization greatly and especially on weekends because we have many transactions as our users are buying some kind of tools and paying online."
"What I really like about Amazon ECS is its simplicity and ease of use. Amazon also has really good security."
"The solution is quite scalable and allows you to launch multiple EC2s within minutes."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service serves the function it's supposed to serve."
"In seven years, we have not faced a single second of downtime."
"The solution is simple to access."
"For Amazon EC2 Container Service, providing the ability for users to select specific processor, memory, disk, and interface types might be an ideal feature. But, the practicality of offering all possible physical combinations is nearly impossible due to the underlying physical machines. AWS and Azure organize options into groups based on essential components like powerful processors or critical interfaces, considering physical restrictions. While expanding these choices is conceivable, it may not be feasible from a financial and practical perspective. Customers generally comprehend this limitation, as even in their own data centers, exact physical machine requirements are often a result of a combination of factors such as price, availability, and new machine generations."
"ECS is a useful platform."
"The most valuable features are the simple scalability and ease of starting a new virtual machine."
"It has helped to minimize the risk and scale services at large in virtually no time."
"The most valuable aspects of Linode are the virtual server and the clean server. I install what I need on it."
"The fact that you can get a person on the phone has just been fantastic."
"The cloud management panel is nice."
"They have a very nice web interface to allow you to manage and reorganize your server."
"The virtual machine configuration tool is very helpful for setting up a new server or for modifying an existing server."
"The most valuable feature is that they are flexible and easy to get ahold of if I need something."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing of Amazon EC2 Container Service."
"The solution can still be expensive, even with per-second billing."
"The solution is expensive compared to other alternatives like Azure."
"The solution's user experience and management are really bad."
"Sometimes, the instances fail under the ECS container cluster, and we have to manually go and find out the black sheep in the ECS container instance. We had an issue earlier where one of the instances under the ECS container cluster went down, and we were not able to identify that instance. The instance got terminated, but a new instance did not come up. Therefore, I had to manually get that instance up. It could be optimized better. In production, we normally cannot sustain such things. It can be optimized in terms of instances, durability, and serving the requests of customers."
"I also believe there are limitations in terms of upgrading. The software has the concept of dedicated servers that you can manage. However, an issue arises when you can't match one operating system with another that you've already purchased. You can't simply merge them; instead, you have to buy a completely new one. This limitation has caused some challenges for us."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service’s initial setup is a bit difficult."
"Visualization is an important factor for me, and I don't think that the visuals within ECS are good enough because it doesn't show you all the details you might need to see at a glance."
"It would be helpful if they provided the additional Linux distributions that I prefer using. But there is still a workaround. I can do it without direct support. It's a bit more complicated, but it can still be done."
"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."
"There is no notification from the company regarding upgrades."
"Our primary concern is always the latency."
"I've had some difficulties with some of their IP addresses being banned by certain mail servers."
"I would like to see more seamless integration with backup, although it's pretty easy to do."
"I would like Linode (without cluttering things) to provide some type of DevOps workflow where people are configuring their pipelines from running their tests and deploying to their test server. Once approved by clicking a button, it just gets deployed to production. I would like something like Azure DevOps, which we use for large applications, and would be something nice to have in Linode."
"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."
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Amazon Elastic Container Service is ranked 8th in Container Management with 46 reviews while Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews. Amazon Elastic Container Service is rated 8.4, while Linode is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Amazon Elastic Container Service writes "An easy to compute solution that can be used to take complete workloads to the cloud". 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 Elastic Container Service is most compared with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Microsoft Azure Container Service, VMware Tanzu Mission Control and Google Kubernetes Engine, whereas Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
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