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AWS Elastic Beanstalk vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
15th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
8th
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Hunaid Vekariya - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 12, 2024
Ability to add configuration files directly to repository, seamless management of rollbacks and simpler to use
From what I've observed, it seems AWS has ceased further development on Elastic Beanstalk. Perhaps they're shifting their focus away from it. They've discontinued many features and are even recommending alternatives like EKS and other serverless services. I've also come across numerous questions online from people encountering issues with Elastic Beanstalk. It seems to be a common concern that AWS is no longer prioritizing Elastic Beanstalk. Instead, they appear to be concentrating on serverless offerings. While this may be disappointing for Elastic Beanstalk users, I believe it's a positive move. Serverless represents the future. AWS could consider adding more platforms as managed services within Elastic Beanstalk. Currently, they offer around five or six. However, since it already provides a Dockerized environment, you can essentially run any language you prefer. So, in my view, they pretty much have everything covered at the moment.
Stephen  Hack - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 16, 2022
Easy to use, simple to sign-in, but lacking graphical interface
Pivotal Cloud Foundry is used as a cloud platform Pivotal Cloud Foundry has helped our organization by the way we've set it up, it's easy to sign in, bind services, push services, and create YAML files. The most valuable features of Pivotal Cloud Foundry are its ease of use and the command line…

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Pros

"One of the most valuable aspects is that developers can access logs directly. They can download them from the AWS console within Elastic Beanstalk."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very robust, especially for building Java."
"It supports CI/CD, and is integrated with the CI/CD very well."
"The most valuable features of Pivotal Cloud Foundry are its ease of use and the command line interface has the ability to push instances to the cloud easily."
"We find its stability and scalability valuable."
"The solution is stable and resilient. In our company, we do not even see any challenges with the solution."
"It is a scalable product...We are not facing any particular issues since most of the applications in our company are written in Java and .NET."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring and the deployment is easier."
"PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime."
 

Cons

"From what I've observed, it seems AWS has ceased further development on Elastic Beanstalk."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is not scalable, infinitely, because when you install it on a set of virtual machines it is very hard to scale. It's easy to scale on an application level, but not it is not similar to if you were using Amazon. Amazon you can scale thousands of applications."
"It is not straightforward to setup."
"The user interface should be simpler to navigate because it t can take time for users to learn it."
"In the next release, they should offer additional applications for the databases, and improve the deployment experience."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve on the technology it is a bit complex."
"I'd like to see a larger service offering."
"Something that can be done better is canary deployment. So, right now, we're using blue-green deployment. The support for canary deployment would be nice."
"It should offer more security features."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The pricing is on the higher side and there are cheaper options available."
"You're paying for the number of virtual machines you want to install in the installation."
"The price of Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve. However, in this category of solutions, they are all expensive."
"The price of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is based on the customer's requirements. However, the price is comparable to other similar solutions."
"Licensing is on a monthly basis and right now we pay $24/month. There are no other costs over and above that."
"We do pay for the licensing cost because we have opted for a private cloud setup. So, it is a cloud setup, and we have to make payments based on the cloud size. I do not consider it very costly when comparing it to the market."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
39%
Manufacturing Company
21%
Insurance Company
6%
Computer Software Company
5%
 

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
Elastic Beanstalk itself is free of cost. You only incur costs for the EC2 instances or load balancers you're running with it. The platform itself is completely free.
What needs improvement with AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
From what I've observed, it seems AWS has ceased further development on Elastic Beanstalk. Perhaps they're shifting their focus away from it. They've discontinued many features and are even recomme...
What is your primary use case for AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
We primarily use Elastic Beanstalk to deploy web applications, mostly built with Django, Laravel, or even native PHP. It provides two options: deploying directly on EC2 or using a Dockerized enviro...
Which would you recommend - Pivotal Cloud Foundry or OpenShift?
Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a cloud-native application platform to simplify app delivery. It is efficient and effective. The best feature is how easy it is to handle external services such as database...
What do you like most about Pivotal Cloud Foundry?
I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pivotal Cloud Foundry?
I would say it is around a nine out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. Just short of Oracle. It's sort of Oracle cloud.
 

Also Known As

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PCF, Pivotal Application Service (PAS), Pivotal Container Service (PKS), Pivotal Function Service (PFS)
 

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