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 ease of use is the biggest benefit."
"This solution features ease of use and market adaptability."
"Very good automation and very stable."
"There are a lot of features that I really like including ease of deployment, ease of build and release, and also that it is heavily focused on a PaaS or SaaS model."
"The installation is quite straightforward."
"AWS is stable."
"The stability is magnificent, it's spectacular."
"The solution scales very nicely."
"The most valuable features are the simple scalability and ease of starting a new virtual machine."
"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."
"Generally speaking, I have not found any faults using Linode. For what we wanted, they provided a complete solution."
"The most valuable feature is the domain settings page."
"Linode has many other cloud servers across the globe."
"I very much like the support that you get, and I think that it's excellent."
"Service availability is the most valuable feature. It gives every user 100 percent uptime."
"The ability to fire up a virtual machine, use it, and then kill it, is quite a valuable feature for me."
"The pricing of AWS is very unclear. They make it quite confusing."
"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."
"The price could be better. Support for data analytics could be better. I don't see much support for data analytics. They have a lot of support in Azure, but I don't see a lot of innovation on the data analytics side in AWS."
"A person with no AWS experience might find it overwhelming at first."
"If Amazon AWS can offer more self-paced learning tools, on their website, on CBT, it'll be easier for more people to familiarize themselves with their service. Especially when they are delivering new services from time to time. Educational tools that can help users familiarize themselves with their service. It would be great."
"In future releases, I would like to see more automation."
"Customer access to APIs is limited so that logs cannot be checked properly."
"You'll probably experience some sticker shock with AWS. You attempt to understand the cost, but you don't realize what you're paying until you get your first bill. I don't know if Amazon does that on purpose, but costs can get out of control quickly if you don't have someone who specializes in AWS cost management."
"I've had some difficulties with some of their IP addresses being banned by certain mail servers."
"Because they are a smaller company, they do not have, for example, all of the ways for authentication that Amazon or Azure has."
"I would like to see more seamless integration with backup, although it's pretty easy to do."
"I don't know how all of their services work, but my understanding is that they're not offering the entry-level machine for someone who just wants to own their own web page."
"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."
"The product must improve its security."
"Before they changed the dashboard, I found some of the more granular options easier to find."
"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 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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