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 payment structure is very good."
"Since AWS came a bit later to the market, they are always improving and upgrading their platform."
"It has a lot of new features that make our lives easier in terms of what we want it to do in the house."
"Amazon AWS has a good Redshift database."
"They provide cutting-edge features compared to other cloud vendors."
"Serverless computing: This can be more cost-efficient just regarding computing resources than renting or purchasing a fixed quantity of servers, which involves periods of underutilization or nonuse."
"We are mostly using EC2 compute and other resources. Most of our managed services are in AWS, which some of our clients prefer."
"AWS is easier to implement than other solutions, and it's more reliable."
"They have a very nice web interface to allow you to manage and reorganize your server."
"The solution integrates easily."
"Linode has many other cloud servers across the globe."
"The virtual machine configuration tool is very helpful for setting up a new server or for modifying an existing 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."
"Linode offers cost-effective pricing, and it enables me to swiftly deploy my services."
"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 cloud management panel is nice."
"Recently we had a long conversation about functionality that is missing in Alexa — in Mexico, specifically. Alexa for Business is a service and platform that Americans can use to make a call to an Amazon Echo device or a telephone via the app. But in Mexico, we are not allowed to use that technology. This is a significant disadvantage of AWS for those living in Mexico."
"User personalization and robotic process automation services need to be mature enough. More APIs are required for robotic process automation services. Azure is more mature in terms of user personalization and robotic process automation services. The document processing can also be better. Whenever we want to do any kind of document management, I try to do OCR, ICR, etc. The functionality in AWS has to be more like that."
"There is a feature called Kinesis, which has to do with image processing. There are a few artificial intelligence tools that Amazon AWS should improve on."
"The user interface (UI) needs improvement. Right now, it's not the best."
"It works very well with open-source solutions like Java, but not with .NET technologies."
"They're really good on the business computing side, but there are other services where they can do really well. They can improve the data analytics platform and the data warehousing platform."
"Its only cons are on the data warehouse side. AWS' data warehouse Redshift is not as good as it should be."
"Amazon AWS is a very poor product for students. Microsoft Azure is a better solution."
"I'm not sure what could be improved at Linode since they're likely already making enhancements, especially with the Akamai acquisition and, I don't have any specific suggestions as I haven't encountered any major issues. I might consider using API for managing DNS records, but overall, I'm satisfied with Linode."
"They don't have role-based access control, which is problematic for us."
"When it comes to marketing and exposure, Linode needs improvement because I just randomly found them by looking for Linux solutions."
"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."
"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 recently changed the web interface and although the older one did not look as good, the new one is less responsive."
"Its cost can be improved."
"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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