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Amazon AWS vs Netlify Platform comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 7, 2026

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
6.7
Amazon AWS offers cost-effective, scalable, and secure solutions with immediate returns, making it highly competitive among cloud providers.
Sentiment score
4.5
Netlify Platform saves time and reduces costs, streamlining deployments and improving project execution without financial investment.
Time saved is exponential because the amount of work that gets done in a sprint is accelerated because of Netlify Platform.
AI Solutions Architect at Structures of Legacy
It already improved the developer experience and also the client experience with us, and even the management experience and the testing experience.
Senior Software Engineer at Rihal
There was a lot of money saved, as we were building the application from scratch and paying employees using our own technical skills to build the application.
Technical Product Manager at Prentice-Hall Inc.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.7
AWS technical support is generally responsive and helpful, though response times could improve, especially for smaller clients.
Sentiment score
5.0
Users find customer service satisfactory, citing effective documentation and support, but some desire quicker responses for complex issues.
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
My impressions of Amazon AWS technical support are that they are quite knowledgeable and professional.
Senior QA Automation Engineer at HireRight
However, I see there are options for AI and customer service; before going to customer service, we can select the AI and get help most of the time, as everything is documented.
Software Developer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
The response was timely and helpful, and the issues were resolved efficiently.
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Netlify Platform's customer support is excellent.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at a outsourcing company with 501-1,000 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Amazon AWS offers scalability and reliability with features like auto-scaling, elastic storage, and seamless expansion for enterprise needs.
Sentiment score
5.7
Netlify Platform is praised for smooth, automatic scalability, efficient traffic handling, and consistent performance, despite some feature challenges.
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
The performance stays consistent globally.
Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
There are no issues regarding scalability.
Tech Lead at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
It helps you avoid any errors or bugs in the application, which helps you fix errors too, with automatic testing rather than manual testing.
Technical Product Manager at Prentice-Hall Inc.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Amazon AWS is renowned for its reliability and uptime, with minor glitches rarely affecting its status as a top cloud provider.
Sentiment score
8.3
Netlify Platform offers high stability, minimal downtime, effective scalability, and reliable deployments, making it a top hosting choice.
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
In terms of scalability, it scales very well and easily handles increased traffic, more projects, and growing team usage without any additional infrastructure effort from our side.
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It's completely, in my view, 100% stable and always available.
Tech Lead at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
Netlify Platform is generally stable, and I have not experienced significant downtime or issues.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at a outsourcing company with 501-1,000 employees
 

Room For Improvement

AWS faces challenges with networking, pricing, support, and integration, needing improvements in cost management, usability, and documentation.
Netlify Platform needs a centralized dashboard, better GitHub integration, performance improvements, pricing transparency, and enhanced backend and AI capabilities.
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
Additionally, more advanced monitoring and logging features inside the platform would be very useful for troubleshooting.
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
You can add integrations such as API services and a secret service so that users do not have to manage environment variables manually through the GUI or web service.
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
The improvement must be a powerful back-end support like APIs and databases.
Full Stack Developer at Sri Krishna Arts and Science
 

Setup Cost

AWS provides scalable flexibility with complex pricing, offering discounts for long-term commitments despite occasional concerns over hidden charges.
Netlify Platform offers transparent, reasonable pricing, with a free tier and cost-effective options for various enterprise project sizes.
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
We recommend it for deployment to clients who cannot afford larger budgets for Vercel or AWS.
Technical Project Manager at Anglebrackets.io
Since I use the free tier, there is no question about pricing or setup costs.
software engineer at Algohire Technologies Pvt
It was just a monthly subscription.
Technical Product Manager at Prentice-Hall Inc.
 

Valuable Features

Amazon AWS offers scalable, flexible services with global availability and advanced features, ensuring efficient cost management and adaptability.
Netlify excels with GitHub integration, serverless functions, CI/CD, global CDN, and cost-effective deployments, enhancing efficiency and collaboration.
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
The most important feature that I rely on most is S3. It serves as a centralized and highly scalable storage solution for datasets.
Data Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Amazon AWS offers flexibility and scalability.
Cloud Technical Program Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The best feature of Netlify Platform is how easily I am able to integrate it with GitHub and GitLab, along with how user-friendly it is.
Software Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
I have used multiple plugins within it, and they are quite easy to use, such as adding environment variables, adding secrets, and adjusting the size of the hosted application, which means the memory, CPU, and virtual CPU memory are very convenient for me to manage.
Senior software engineer at Simplifyvms
When it comes to the new modern frameworks, all the other platforms require extra configurations to get deployed into the DNS servers, but using Netlify Platform, it is easy; everything is handled by Netlify Platform in the backend, and the deployment process and all the CI/CD pipeline that Netlify Platform handles is something which is good in regard to the modern frameworks which are used nowadays.
Software Developer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon AWS
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
260
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (2nd)
Netlify Platform
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
5th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.3
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of Amazon AWS is 13.8%, up from 12.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Netlify Platform is 0.3%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
PaaS Clouds Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon AWS13.8%
Netlify Platform0.3%
Other85.9%
PaaS Clouds
 

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.
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Tech Lead at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
Rapid prototypes have accelerated my web app demos and streamlined real-time feature testing
There could be a simple interface where I can turn on and off CI/CD in a single place on Netlify Platform. Right now I have to go to each and every instance that I'm using and get into the settings and turn on and off that auto-deployment mode or all of that becomes a little time-taking. Since I know the user interface, it's easy for me, but for newcomers, going into that granular level of control might be on the higher side. It will take a lot of time. If there could have a kind of dashboard where I can pause the CI/CD for each product or for each project instance, that will be better. The free tier of Netlify Platform itself is enough for most of the users. If at all they want to do more, they could increase the free tier limit. Currently it's around 300 minutes per month. If they could increase it or set a daily limit, that will be better instead of setting a monthly limit. Most of the times I lose track of how much I have used this.
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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
12%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Educational Organization
17%
Computer Software Company
14%
University
12%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business131
Midsize Enterprise48
Large Enterprise120
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business27
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise16
 

Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with Netlify Platform?
Please increase the limit for free users and college and school students using Netlify Platform, as they have many projects but not the correct platform for posting free or open source projects. Ma...
What is your primary use case for Netlify Platform?
I use Netlify Platform for hosting my projects and my client projects, and testing the entire projects and how hosting works. Everything is functioning well regarding my main use case and projects ...
What advice do you have for others considering Netlify Platform?
I would rate Netlify Platform a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10. My advice to others looking into using Netlify Platform is that it is a great option.
 

Also Known As

Amazon Web Services, AWS
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Pinterest, General Electric, Pfizer, Netflix, and Nasdaq.
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