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AWS Elastic Beanstalk vs Netlify Platform comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 7, 2026

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

Categories and Ranking

AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
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Netlify Platform
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
4.9
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

HS
Business Analyst & Agile Strategist at Charles Schwab
Utilize auto-scaling and monitoring to efficiently manage application infrastructure
The key features of AWS Elastic Beanstalk include auto-scaling capabilities for applications experiencing traffic fluctuations, ensuring high availability and cost-effectiveness. AWS Elastic Beanstalk integrates with AWS CloudWatch to provide metrics like latency and CPU utilization, allowing easy monitoring of application performance. It supports multiple programming languages and frameworks, supports multi-environment for different stages of the application lifecycle, and is cost-effective as you pay based on the resources launched.
KR
Software Developer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Automated deployments have simplified portfolio updates and have reduced manual pipeline work
For the improvements in Netlify Platform, I think it should focus on better marketing because competitors like Vercel and others are present in the market. While Netlify Platform looks clean, neat, and enhanced, it should do better marketing, as it is actually recommended by ChatGPT for small-sized projects. I believe it should also be suggested for larger projects and promoted more so that Netlify Platform is used by multiple people; it should be the go-to cloud environment. I think the technical side of Netlify Platform can improve, especially in the documentation. They can add more information about new frameworks as they come into the platform or market. They should maintain a troubleshooting page on Netlify Platform docs that comprehensively shows all the steps. Adding more user-friendly animations or navigation would make the platform easier. Moreover, with the documentation, it currently shows all the tabs at one place, and the customer should understand what each use is without having to click into it. They should support more old frameworks as well, to increase the range of utilizations since mostly old frameworks are still in the market, prompting more users to migrate to Netlify Platform.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The feature I like most about Elastic Beanstalk is the way I do not have to do anything, just deploy my app."
"I highly recommend it to others and frequently discuss it with customers."
"Elastic Beanstalk is very easy to use, providing infrastructure to deploy our third-party application to the cloud within 15 to 20 minutes."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Beanstalk is its ease of use and management."
"I would rate the overall solution a ten out of ten."
"I find the versioning to be especially valuable on AWS Elastic Beanstalk."
"The management of environments is a valuable feature."
"Elastic Beanstalk helps reduce system administration as it automates many tasks."
"My main reason for preference over competitors like GitHub Pages and Vercel is its seamless integration with GitHub, where I can deploy directly from my development IDE using CLI commands, making it more efficient without having to manually link things."
"The best thing Netlify Platform has done for me is that it gives me velocity, taking away all the burden and time-consuming processes so I can move fast."
"Netlify Platform has positively impacted my organization and personal projects by making it easy for me to deploy my personal portfolio website without doing all the DevOps and CI/CD pipeline myself."
"Netlify Platform has positively impacted my organization because the entire CI/CD pipeline in place becomes very easy to manage using Netlify."
"Netlify Platform was very feasible and we did not have to pay a very large sum of money to host our services."
 

Cons

"Elastic Beanstalk is powerful, however, it could be enhanced in areas where it abstracts infrastructure management, sometimes limiting advanced users who want granular control over resources like EC2 instances, networking, or load balancers."
"One area where AWS Elastic Beanstalk struggles is with the complexity of deployments."
"Logs and debugging can sometimes be cumbersome, and there could be a more seamless method to analyze application issues without relying heavily on CloudWatch, which would improve my experience."
"From what I've observed, it seems AWS has ceased further development on Elastic Beanstalk."
"Elastic Beanstalk can enhance its customizability further, especially in terms of deployment options."
"The automatic scaling functionality could use improvement."
"Sometimes it is difficult to use for the first time. The automatic scaling functionality could use improvement."
"Sometimes there are issues when auto-scaling with CloudFront."
"While it also helps with backend deployment, it is not as scalable as AWS or Azure, and I would love to see and explore more features in the future around it."
"I think Netlify Platform can be improved if it has the functionality to have a full back-end as well."
"The pricing of Netlify Platform is acceptable for beginners but can become costly for intermediate users, as it can be high when CPU usage goes beyond a certain amount."
"I think the technical side of Netlify Platform can improve, especially in the documentation."
"Netlify Platform could be improved if they hosted their independent services apart from GitHub."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Educational Organization
13%
Outsourcing Company
11%
University
11%
Computer Software Company
30%
Government
21%
University
12%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise4
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
AWS Elastic Beanstalk itself is free to use, but there are charges for other integrated services like RDS ( /products/amazon-rds-reviews ), ELBs, and EC2s. If only AWS Elastic Beanstalk is used, th...
What needs improvement with AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
Elastic Beanstalk can enhance its customizability further, especially in terms of deployment options.
What is your primary use case for AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
I have used AWS Elastic Beanstalk ( /products/aws-elastic-beanstalk-reviews ) primarily to manage infrastructure. The main purpose is to offload the complexity of managing servers, operating system...
What needs improvement with Netlify Platform?
Netlify Web Development Cloud does have limitations as it is not suitable for back-end heavy or long-running server applications, and its free tier imposes usage limits on bandwidth, build minutes,...
What is your primary use case for Netlify Platform?
My main use case for Netlify Web Development Cloud is deploying my applications, such as deploying my personal applications so that everyone can access my made application through a link. I use Net...
What advice do you have for others considering Netlify Platform?
My advice for others looking into using Netlify Web Development Cloud is to highly recommend it for beginners and front-end developers wanting to understand modern deployment and CI/CD workflows, t...
 

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