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Amazon Linux 2 AMI (amazon linux 2) | Support by SupportedImages vs ReadMe comparison

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Amazon Linux 2 AMI (amazon ...
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
459th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
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ReadMe
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
35th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
4
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Featured Reviews

Sayed Basha - PeerSpot reviewer
IT platform engineer at Infosys via consign Space Solutions pvt ltd
Reliable cloud workloads have run cost-effectively and now support microservices and databases
One frustration I encounter is that Amazon Linux 2 AMI (amazon linux 2) | Support by SupportedImages does not support running on-premises. If it had features available for on-premises operations, it would greatly benefit organizations like the banking projects I have worked with, where data security is crucial and many critical applications still run on-premises. If Amazon Linux 2 AMI (amazon linux 2) | Support by SupportedImages offered this support, it would provide great competition with Red Hat Linux in the market. Regarding needed improvements, I believe Amazon could enhance its documentation, particularly for older versions. I sometimes face issues when installing the CloudWatch agent to gather OS-level metrics due to inadequate documentation. I believe I have covered everything regarding improvements, and I think the points I mentioned are sufficient.
TejaswiniAleti - PeerSpot reviewer
Member Technical at ADP
Centralized API documentation has improved collaboration and reduces onboarding time
Overall, I have had a positive experience with ReadMe, but there are a few areas where I think it could improve. One is customization. While it is easy to create clean documentation, making deeper UI or layout customizations can be somewhat limiting without additional effort. Having more built-in customization options would help teams tailor the developer portal to their branding and documentation needs. I would also like to see more advanced analytics. It would be useful to have richer insights into which APIs are viewed most frequently, where developers spend the most time, and which document pages generate the most support requests. Those metrics could help us continuously improve our documentation. Another improvement would be the tighter integration with Git-based development workflows. While synchronizing documentation works well, making documentation updates, previews, and reviews even more seamless as part of the pull request process would improve the developer experience. All of these are not major issues. They are enhancements that would make an already solid platform even better. Overall, ReadMe has worked well for our API documentation needs. An additional improvement I would like to see is better support for documentation versioning and change tracking. In enterprise applications, APIs evolve over time, and having more intuitive tools to compare versions and clearly highlight changes would make it easier for both internal teams and external consumers to adopt new API versions. I would also appreciate more built-in collaboration features, such as richer review workflows or commenting capabilities for documentation changes before they are published. That would make it easier for developers, QA teams, and technical writers to review documentation together and keep it accurate. Other than those enhancements, I think ReadMe is an easy-to-use platform that has met our API documentation needs. I do not have any major concerns beyond the improvements I already mentioned.

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

Pros

"Regarding using Amazon Linux 2 AMI (amazon linux 2) | Support by SupportedImages for workloads like web and backend servers, microservices, and database hosting, I find that the main advantage is its compatibility."
"This workflow helps me in my day-to-day work by making things faster, more reliable, and easier to manage."
"Amazon Linux 2 AMI (amazon linux 2) | Support by SupportedImages has positively impacted my organization because the default run already has so many workload infrastructures running for the last five years with no vulnerability found and everything works smoothly."
"Overall, if your organization wants to improve the developer experience, reduce repetitive support questions, and provide a centralized and professional API portal, I think ReadMe is a strong choice."
"Instead of investing time in documentation, ReadMe can document entire APIs quickly and we can just go and do a review, saving a lot of time instead of spending a couple of days or three days on documentation."
"With ReadMe serving as a clear, self-service developer portal, our partners can now complete their integration in a fraction of the time, which has accelerated project delivery timelines, improved our partner satisfaction, and optimized engineering promises."
"Previously, our documentation was split up, but now it is unified through ReadMe, which gives a clear overview and is very easy to navigate, acting as a single source of truth for our business and providing more stability."
 

Cons

"However, I withhold two points due to its reliance on older versions and kernel, along with the necessity of Amazon Linux extras for newer versions of languages and tools."
"Amazon Linux 2 AMI (amazon linux 2) | Support by SupportedImages can be improved by addressing the basic thing which was on EC2 SSM role by default at the OS level, because so many times we need to install SSM agent on our server levels."
"I did not see a return on investment from Amazon Linux 2 AMI (amazon linux 2) | Support by SupportedImages; I did not get any benefit from it."
"On a scale of one to ten, I rate ReadMe overall as eight out of ten. I choose eight out of ten because it is a very strict platform with limited customization."
"One is customization. While it is easy to create clean documentation, making deeper UI or layout customizations can be somewhat limiting without additional effort."
"We could probably have more advanced analytics, multi-domain support, or something similar, and advanced access controls."
"ReadMe is a software-as-a-service offering only, and there is no way to self-host ReadMe."
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Linux 2 AMI (amazon linux 2) | Support by SupportedImages?
I did not purchase Amazon Linux 2 AMI (amazon linux 2) | Support by SupportedImages through the AWS Marketplace; it is free. I do not know anything about pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Amaz...
What needs improvement with Amazon Linux 2 AMI (amazon linux 2) | Support by SupportedImages?
In my opinion, Amazon Linux 2 AMI (amazon linux 2) | Support by SupportedImages can be improved, but I cannot think of any specific things that could have made my experience better. I do not have a...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Linux 2 AMI (amazon linux 2) | Support by SupportedImages?
My main use case for Amazon Linux 2 AMI (amazon linux 2) | Support by SupportedImages involves directly using images there or that particular image version, where I utilize it with Packer to packag...
What needs improvement with ReadMe?
ReadMe is a very new tool and I have not used it much, but what we are doing right now is great, so I do not think there is any improvement needed. One thing is that I think there is some limitatio...
What is your primary use case for ReadMe?
Our main use case for ReadMe is that we will be having a lot of APIs and we wanted to document them very well. We were using Swagger, but ReadMe provides more interactive API documentation with goo...
What advice do you have for others considering ReadMe?
ReadMe is deployed in our organization in a dev environment where we do testing and documentation. We use it in a dev environment which is only accessible for our organization. We use Azure as our ...
 

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