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ClearScale Windows Server 2025 vs Ignition Cloud Edition comparison

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Categories and Ranking

ClearScale Windows Server 2025
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
433rd
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Ignition Cloud Edition
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
4th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2858658 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Automated hardening has standardized our servers and reduces effort for secure Windows workloads
The first-boot time is longer than a stock Windows AMI. Sysprep and the initial hardening pass add a noticeable delay before the instance is reachable, which is something to account for if you autoscale and need nodes ready quickly. The hardened defaults also occasionally trip up common installers and agents. A few of our deployment and monitoring tools assumed services or policies that the image had locked down, so we had to add exceptions. A short compatibility checklist of what the hardening changes from a default Windows install would have saved us that debugging. I would also like the option of a CIS Level 2 build for our more sensitive workloads since the image currently only ships a Level 1 baseline. Thanks.
Hassana Abubakar - PeerSpot reviewer
Control Systems (Scada) Engineer at Mainstream Energy Solutions Limited
Cloud monitoring has transformed real-time plant control and automated preventive maintenance
There is always room for improvement, and at the moment, I am on the good side. I do not really have a bad side of it or anything that I would like to see changed; I love what I see and I love what I use. One feature that comes to my mind as missing in Ignition Cloud Edition is the user graphics in the user interface. The graphics in the user interface, such as the slider or the shapes for the equipment, can be improved upon. When I am selecting a tank, I should see a real tank, or when I am selecting a breaker, it should look like a real breaker in the field, or a valve or a sensor or a slider. Every other feature, such as the graphs and charts, are cool.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Windows Server 2025 is a strong fit for enterprise environments heavily reliant on Microsoft technologies."
"Because the image arrives CIS Level 1 hardened with the AWS tooling already in place, our servers come up patched, locked down, and ready to join the domain without a separate build out pass."
"Ignition Cloud Edition has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to get more projects and also increasing our revenue."
"What I love about Ignition Cloud Edition is the advantages and functionalities it has over other SCADA software."
"My main use case for Ignition Cloud Edition, even if it's just in my learning phase, was that it is a very interesting cloud platform, it was very much feasible, it can interface to multiple types of controllers and also with RTUs, and I see that its application can be used in other applications which is much more comfortable than other available platforms."
"The best features Ignition Cloud Edition offers are the ability to set alerts on a system and access that remotely."
"Ignition Cloud Edition has had a very positive impact on my organization."
"Ignition Cloud Edition has positively impacted my organization by enabling sharing so that projects can be shared without everyone having to access them through manual file sharing."
"Both the database and Ignition can be set up very easily without any hardware, and reliability and high availability are always there, built in."
"Ignition Cloud Edition has had a very positive impact on our organization, especially in the way we access and use industrial data."
 

Cons

"The hardened defaults also occasionally trip up common installers and agents: a few of our deployment and monitoring tools assumed services or policies that the image had locked down, so we had to add exceptions."
"Initial configuration complexity can still be high for teams without prior Windows Server expertise."
"The accuracy of Ignition Cloud Edition is not very great, and reliability also needs improvement."
"I think Ignition Cloud Edition could be more intuitive on how to use it."
"The way the historian is set up is not conducive to large deployments and it makes querying the data challenging."
"Ignition Cloud Edition can be improved in the sense that it doesn't come with some drivers in the Cloud version. For example, local device drivers are not included, and you always need a local Ignition Edge there."
"The pricing aspect of Ignition Cloud Edition is actually on the high side."
"For someone considering Ignition Cloud Edition, I think it is not bad, but honestly, I see it as overpriced."
"My concern is about cybersecurity. Since it's a cloud platform, the chances of countering cybersecurity attacks will be a major concern."
"Ignition Cloud Edition reflects that it is still missing some driver options and we require a more cost-effective solution, which is why I rate it an eight on a scale of one to ten."
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Manufacturing Company
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Outsourcing Company
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Comms Service Provider
6%
 

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ClearScale Windows Server 2025?
The software charge sits on top of the underlying Windows EC2 cost, which is already higher than Linux, so model both together before you commit to a large fleet. The hourly model suited our autosc...
What needs improvement with ClearScale Windows Server 2025?
The first-boot time is longer than a stock Windows AMI. Sysprep and the initial hardening pass add a noticeable delay before the instance is reachable, which is something to account for if you auto...
What is your primary use case for ClearScale Windows Server 2025?
We use ClearScale Windows Server 2025 as the base image for our .NET and IIS application servers on EC2. These instances host internal line of business web applications and Windows services, and se...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Ignition Cloud Edition?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing was quite good, as it was straightforward based on how many machines, what kind of hardware we wanted to use, and how many users were needed.
What needs improvement with Ignition Cloud Edition?
Improvements for Ignition Cloud Edition should include the addition of more traditional PLCs-based drivers. I would also suggest that they might launch future Ignition Cloud Edition-based services,...
What is your primary use case for Ignition Cloud Edition?
My main use case for Ignition Cloud Edition is regarding the customer deployment of these Ignition Cloud Edition projects when they do not want to install on the on-premises servers. My main use ca...
 

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