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Amazon AWS vs Mendix comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.2
Amazon AWS offers cost-effective, scalable solutions with pay-as-you-go pricing, enabling quick deployment and significant financial benefits.
Sentiment score
6.2
Mendix reduces development time and costs, achieving faster project completion and significant returns despite high license fees concerns.
It's not that they're really firing that personnel, but they can often focus on the core that really matters instead of repetitive processes in Excel forms and all of the overhead and human error that comes with that.
CTO at Blue Green Solutions
Since Mendix is a low-code platform, the ROI is significant; we save a lot of money and require fewer people to do an application, reduced to two, which drastically decreases development time because this is not traditional programming; just drag and drop, and we can complete projects that would take years within months.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER at Siemens Industry
I have seen a return on investment with Mendix, as in default software development, a team with 10 developers or more is needed, while here we can do it with one or two developers, so it is truly a money saver for the company.
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
Amazon AWS customer service is highly effective and responsive, with knowledgeable support and comprehensive documentation, enhancing user satisfaction.
Sentiment score
7.0
Mendix delivers responsive customer support, strong community engagement, and valuable resources, ensuring high user satisfaction despite occasional delays.
Reaching out to them and talking is different from receiving a complete solution to your problem.
Principal Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
We have a direct line to Amazon AWS, with premium support and AWS members located within the company.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at sportsbet
Amazon AWS has good technical engineers available, making their customer service reliable.
Cloud Technical Program Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
I haven't often needed to seek direct support from Mendix teams as their online resources and knowledge database are comprehensive.
Mendix Developer at Plieger
Mendix provides proper support, troubleshooting options, and a helping community.
Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees
If it's about having an issue that I can't solve despite being a Mendix expert and having tried every single bit and piece, support can feel like a stone wall.
CTO at Blue Green Solutions
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Amazon AWS offers exceptional scalability, enabling effortless resource expansion and efficient scaling to support diverse user needs globally.
Sentiment score
7.0
Mendix is generally scalable with adjustments, though multi-country and database challenges exist; enterprise licensing enhances performance.
The scalability of Amazon AWS is excellent.
Principal Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Amazon AWS provides strong scalability features, but the scaling process could be made more straightforward.
Cloud Technical Program Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
When setting up resources, the maximum limit can go high or low, at which time instances are increased, which helps maintain latency standards.
Architect at ebzss
Mendix supports scaling well with its comprehensive online documentation and learning paths.
Mendix Developer at Plieger
Mendix provides options for handling scalability and maintainability through features like validation, workflow and nanoflow minimization, and user components, enabling projects to be easily managed and scaled.
Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees
Also solutions processing data at scale, talking about one million packages a day.
CTO at Blue Green Solutions
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Amazon AWS is highly reliable, with strong performance and minimal outages, earning high satisfaction for robustness and stability.
Sentiment score
7.4
Mendix offers strong stability, effective bug resolution, reliable cloud support, and garners high user stability ratings, despite complexity challenges.
If I am spinning up any managed service from the console, sometimes it fails to start up, and there will be no information about why it failed.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at sportsbet
Mendix has been stable in my experience, with reliable performance for enterprise applications and minimal downtime or critical issues.
Software Development Intern at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
I recently encountered an issue with deploying applications on the Mendix sandbox, which took a week to resolve.
Mendix developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

Amazon AWS users seek better cost management, integration, user interfaces, security, performance, support, and simplified billing and setup processes.
Mendix needs better document templates, UX design, integration with legacy systems, reporting, databases, and AI-driven insights for scalability.
Amazon AWS could improve its user interface to make it more user-friendly, especially for people who are not highly technical.
Cloud Technical Program Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
When using scripts for APIs to fetch data, they don't match the data exactly with the request.
Principal Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
If I create a Glue job, that will create S3 buckets and other resources that have cost implications, but once I clean up a Glue job, it does not delete the other accessory resources.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at sportsbet
Access to the database is limited in Mendix's public cloud, preventing direct database interaction or inspection.
Mendix developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I choose a seven mainly due to the issues we've faced with slowdowns and bugs during development, while runtime has been very stable.
CTO at Blue Green Solutions
Native development is not very strong, and some developer tools are missing, such as shortcuts to edit multiple variables.
Software Development Intern at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

Amazon AWS offers flexible pricing with cost-effectiveness, but managing expenses can be complex compared to Azure or GCP.
Mendix provides fast app development for enterprises, but high licensing costs may deter small-to-medium businesses.
After three to four years, if you are not managing it correctly, you will be paying more than an on-premise solution, which applies to all cloud providers, so you must regularly maintain and manage for efficiency.
Principal Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Currently, Amazon AWS is known to be on the higher price range because popular and in-demand services often come at a premium.
Cloud Technical Program Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The app license costs between $13,000 to $14,000, which is prohibitive for startups.
Mendix developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is reasonable;
CTO at Blue Green Solutions
From the pricing shown on the Mendix webpage, we have a basic package where you pay 60 Euros a month for five users and 10 Euros per additional user.
Senior Mendix Consultant at a photography company with 11-50 employees
 

Valuable Features

Amazon AWS provides scalable compute, flexible pricing, high security, and integration, ideal for building efficient applications with minimal infrastructure.
Mendix enhances productivity with rapid development, seamless integration, low-code ease, robust security, and scalable cloud capabilities for complex tasks.
Amazon AWS provides IAM features for user access management as well as KMS through key management service with private and public key encryption methodology.
Architect at ebzss
Amazon AWS offers flexibility and scalability.
Cloud Technical Program Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
One aspect I appreciate in Amazon AWS is their support team, which is excellent.
Principal Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Mendix's integration capabilities are impressive, allowing for rapid and on-the-fly integration of almost anything imaginable.
Mendix developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The best features that Mendix offers are proper guardrails that prevent starting from scratch, ensuring a certain level of security, user experience, and standardization for implementing workflows, API integrations, and how you set up your domain model.
CTO at Blue Green Solutions
For security, I value the built-in authentication, role-based access control, and data protection features, which make enterprise apps safer without needing heavy custom setup.
Software Development Intern at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon AWS
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
258
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (2nd), PaaS Clouds (2nd)
Mendix
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
62
Ranking in other categories
Mobile Development Platforms (2nd), Rapid Application Development Software (5th), Low-Code Development Platforms (3rd), Agentic Automation (5th), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (12th), AI Software Development (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Amazon AWS and Mendix aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Amazon AWS is designed for Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) and holds a mindshare of 17.4%, up 14.7% compared to last year.
Mendix, on the other hand, focuses on Low-Code Development Platforms, holds 4.1% mindshare, down 9.4% since last year.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon AWS17.4%
Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode)10.2%
Microsoft Azure9.9%
Other62.5%
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
Low-Code Development Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Mendix4.1%
Microsoft Power Apps7.9%
Oracle Application Express (APEX)5.1%
Other82.9%
Low-Code Development Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

Asif  Meem - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at sportsbet
Managed cloud services have helped accelerate experiments with flexible configuration options
Sometimes the costs associated with spinning up a service, especially managed services, have implications. For example, if I create a Glue job, that will create S3 buckets and other resources that have cost implications, but once I clean up a Glue job, it does not delete the other accessory resources. Sometimes, I have to go hunting for what resources Amazon AWS might have provisioned and how it is costing behind the scenes. It can be complex depending on your level of expertise. It is not as easy to get started, especially when it comes to secure practices. Amazon AWS is more hands-on than other platforms.
Mitchel Mol BGS - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Blue Green Solutions
Has improved development quality and speed but has introduced persistent IDE slowdowns
In recent years, the IDE has been more buggy and slower, and although there have been more features added, I would like to see more stability, as some areas that used to work for a fairly long time are now slower in my development, which feels like a step back. I choose a seven mainly due to the issues we've faced with slowdowns and bugs during development, while runtime has been very stable, and the overall output on Mendix platform is still good; there is definitely some room for improvement, and I would probably have given it an eight or even a nine if those issues weren't hurting my developer output for the past few years. Overall, Mendix platform is stable, but the IDE could be better.
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Comparison Review

it_user8586 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Aug 14, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Educational Organization
6%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
8%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business131
Midsize Enterprise48
Large Enterprise114
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business28
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise25
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Mendix?
I do not have much experience with the pricing, setup cost, and licensing because the sales or business team usually handles that, and as a developer, I don't have a clear idea.
What needs improvement with Mendix?
I think Mendix can be improved by supporting automated tests more easily. For example, Mendix can add some IDs for each component to build the automation tests more easily.
What is your primary use case for Mendix?
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Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Amazon Web Services, AWS
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Sample Customers

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