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.
"I like the storage, all the codes like Lambda and Amazon EMR."
"The solution offers easy provisioning and scaling on the fly."
"Amazon for DevOps is fantastic. Amazon has fast clouds, and the process and the Dev is very good."
"The solution can scale well."
"The stability is magnificent, it's spectacular."
"Amazon AWS has improved a lot on security and is very good. Additionally, You can integrate your own security into their AWS platform."
"The initial setup is not difficult and it did not take us more than one day."
"It integrates well."
"The most valuable feature is that they are flexible and easy to get ahold of if I need something."
"They have a very nice web interface to allow you to manage and reorganize your server."
"The most valuable feature is the static IP address, which has been very helpful for being able to log into the same address over the course of more than a decade."
"The ability to fire up a virtual machine, use it, and then kill it, is quite a valuable feature for me."
"The cloud management panel is nice."
"The virtual machine configuration tool is very helpful for setting up a new server or for modifying an existing server."
"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 fact that you can get a person on the phone has just been fantastic."
"The usability of the solution could be a bit better."
"Their support can be improved. In some cases, their support is not as proficient as it can be. They should be quicker at getting back."
"The pricing of the solution could be better. It's a little pricey."
"We have had several issues with the products and services but as of now, there are no good alternatives."
"Some of the storage services could be cheaper."
"I also use Google Cloud GCP and AWS cannot directly use the Azure EC2 consult. They could add that feature. Direct connection to the EC2 console server would be very useful."
"Amazon AWS is a very poor product for students. Microsoft Azure is a better solution."
"Our API Management solution is integrated with Lambda, and last year, we had an issue while upgrading Lambda from version 8.0 to version 10. It seemed like Lambda runtime was changed by AWS, and there was a bug that caused the downtime. The loading of the dashboard is slow. It could be because I am located in China."
"The suitability of this solution depends on the features that you need. If you're an Uber-sized company then you're probably not going to want to start using Linode. If you are a large-sized organization then you're going to want to start using one of the bigger providers that gives you the scalability and the feature set that you are probably going to be needing in the future."
"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."
"There is no notification from the company regarding upgrades."
"It would be helpful if they offered a service where they handle the Linux security."
"Our primary concern is always the latency."
"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."
"Because they are a smaller company, they do not have, for example, all of the ways for authentication that Amazon or Azure has."
"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 165 reviews while Linode is ranked 3rd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 23 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Linode is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Flexible, scales well, and offers good stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Linode writes "Helpful automation scripts, good documentation, responsive support, easy to use and manage". Amazon AWS is most compared with Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform, OpenShift, Oracle Cloud Platform and IBM Public Cloud, whereas Linode is most compared with Google Cloud, Google Kubernetes Engine, Microsoft Azure, MinIO and Amazon EKS. See our Amazon AWS vs. Linode report.
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