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Initially, not having them resulted in an unoptimized solution. However, with these tools in place, we witnessed a reduction of costs by approximately a third—if it was $100 beforehand, we brought costs down to $25.
We have cost explorer available, and a bill forecast based on usage allows us to determine whether resources are underutilized or overutilized.
It's a fast deployment, with very good documentation, and it's really helpful.
They respond with relevant and easy-to-follow solutions.
They were very responsive to my issue.
We didn't need to manage etcd and those control management tools; it's totally handled from the AWS side, making it very beneficial.
I believe there should be a recovery solution available for at least a few hours so that we might bring it back.
They will set up a call, guide us, or provide solutions regarding integration with AWS or Amazon EKS.
For my usage, which is a small business, I rate the scalability of Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) around nine or ten.
The ability to scale based on requirements by deploying additional containers is a strong point for Kubernetes.
This allows us to scale our applications or APIs as needed, offering reliability through the automation of scaling processes.
If any node is not ready, the cluster autoscaler ensures that it is removed from the AWS auto-scaling group and replaces it with a new node in the cluster.
There are multiple availability zones in the regions, meaning no single point of failure.
The control plane is quite stable in Amazon EKS, and I find it to be 100% available.
We haven't faced any challenges, and it consistently delivers on its committed SLA.
The main area for improvement is the lack of a backup feature to the local hard disk or storage.
The main improvement I would like to see from Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) is the ability to duplicate the server as it is and initialize a new one with the same features.
It would be useful to have the option to sort or group by tags on the domains page.
Simplifying these will enable more people, not just those with strong foundational knowledge, to work effectively with these services.
Amazon EKS can be improved by having the maintenance of Kubernetes versions managed better, as everything is handled by the Kubernetes team and possibly a separate team at AWS.
Adding logging would be a valuable improvement.
I find Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode)'s pricing very competitive.
The EKS service itself is free, but you will incur costs for the VMs used as nodes in that cluster.
If you want to monitor costs effectively, applying separate tools and acting accordingly in advance is essential.
The pricing structure is beneficial for large companies who pay for what they use, but it is not affordable for startups.
Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) is easy to use and has a fair price, making it accessible and straightforward, which is crucial when compared to other complex solutions.
Their support is really good. I can ask anything at any time, and they are able to resolve issues like reinstating deleted Linodes.
I use the backup features as my main benefit from Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode), and since my business is small, I don't need more than this.
The most beneficial aspect of Amazon EKS is that it helps manage the Kubernetes master node, so I don't need to maintain the master node, including tasks like upgrading.
The main benefits that I received from using Amazon EKS are that it is a managed cluster and offers simplicity.
By default, if you just install Amazon EKS, you can deploy your application, but to have it enterprise-ready, you have to configure a number of other things that will boost productivity.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) | 7.1% |
| Amazon AWS | 16.6% |
| Microsoft Azure | 14.9% |
| Other | 61.4% |
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Amazon EKS | 11.9% |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform | 19.5% |
| VMware Tanzu Platform | 11.8% |
| Other | 56.8% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 28 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 3 |
| Large Enterprise | 1 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 32 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 18 |
| Large Enterprise | 38 |
Linode Pricing Page
CPU, transfer, storage, and RAM bundled into one simple price.
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a fully managed Kubernetes service. Customers such as Intel, Snap, Intuit, GoDaddy, and Autodesk trust EKS to run their most sensitive and mission critical applications because of its security, reliability, and scalability.
EKS is the best place to run Kubernetes for several reasons. First, you can choose to run your EKS clusters using AWS Fargate, which is serverless compute for containers. Fargate removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you specify and pay for resources per application, and improves security through application isolation by design. Second, EKS is deeply integrated with services such as Amazon CloudWatch, Auto Scaling Groups, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), providing you a seamless experience to monitor, scale, and load-balance your applications. Third, EKS integrates with AWS App Mesh and provides a Kubernetes native experience to consume service mesh features and bring rich observability, traffic controls and security features to applications. Additionally, EKS provides a scalable and highly-available control plane that runs across multiple availability zones to eliminate a single point of failure.
EKS runs upstream Kubernetes and is certified Kubernetes conformant so you can leverage all benefits of open source tooling from the community. You can also easily migrate any standard Kubernetes application to EKS without needing to refactor your code.
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