We performed a comparison between 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: Linode is the winner in this comparison. According to reviewers, it is more user-friendly than Amazon AWS.
"Machine learning is a valuable feature."
"It scales well and is flexible."
"A scalable and secure product"
"You can build and release applications quickly with AWS instead of waiting for months to get the necessary hardware. That's the real benefit. The time-to-market for developing applications is much shorter."
"It's quite stable and scalable. The price is good as well."
"It is highly available and on-demand. So, you can scale up and scale down whenever required."
"The most valuable feature is the backup ability. Most people are used to one type of backup solution that they're using, but most of these solutions have features that make it difficult to transfer to the cloud. I know that Veeam now gives people the opportunity to backup some on-premises solutions to the cloud. This feature is something that a lot of people are looking for."
"The features that I have found most valuable are their compute and their Relational Database Service."
"Linode has many other cloud servers across the globe."
"The fact that you can get a person on the phone has just been fantastic."
"Generally speaking, I have not found any faults using Linode. For what we wanted, they provided a complete solution."
"The most valuable aspects of Linode are the virtual server and the clean server. I install what I need on it."
"The solution integrates easily."
"Amazon AWS could be improved by lowering the general storage price."
"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."
"I'd love to see an Amazon data center here in Peru."
"Its only cons are on the data warehouse side. AWS' data warehouse Redshift is not as good as it should be."
"Amazon still has room for improvement in terms of being more mature on the monitoring side and in terms of the native capabilities. Amazon should get their services portfolio stronger on OEM-based workloads such as Microsoft and Oracle. There are a lot of areas that still do not have offerings, so there is room to grow. I would be happy if they bring more maturity to the monitoring capabilities and SaaS offerings. They are strong on Infrastructure as a Service, but they are not mature on SaaS."
"They do not yet have a complete solution for APM monitoring. But this, along with real user monitoring, is something that they are actively working on improving."
"Amazon needs to develop better tools for troubleshooting network traffic, application insights, performance, and even some aspects of integration mapping. I'm hoping AWS implements something like Azure's Network Watcher and a log analytics solution where a can pull logs from various services and present them in a single dashboard. I want to summarize the performance and usage of every service and application."
"Amazon AWS would be improved if it were more stable and if customer support's responses were faster."
"There is no notification from the company regarding upgrades."
"The network between different servers isn't very good. I have to install additional solutions to link the servers with each other."
"Our primary concern is always the latency."
"I've had some difficulties with some of their IP addresses being banned by certain mail servers."
"When it comes to marketing and exposure, Linode needs improvement because I just randomly found them by looking for Linux solutions."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 108 reviews while Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 5 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Linode is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Flexible, scales well, and offers good stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Linode writes "Prompt and professional service, easy to set up, supports many versions of Linux". Amazon AWS is most compared with SAP Cloud Platform, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud, whereas Linode is most compared with Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloudflare and Amazon EKS. See our Amazon AWS vs. Linode report.
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