Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) vs Amazon Elastic Container Service comparison

"We can scale up and down as we require."

"The most valuable features are the simple scalability and ease of starting a new virtual machine."

"The fact that you can get a person on the phone has just been fantastic."

"The cloud management panel is nice."

"The creation of instances is very good, as is their interface which is not complex and is easy to use. With the dashboard it is easy to create a new instance and add your favorite things. You can add Debian, Ubuntu, or CentOS, or any flavor of operating system. You can select the RAM for your instance as well."

"The fact that you can do any Linux distribution is great. You can try out any Linux distribution, even some of the more obscure ones, and they are always keeping them up-to-date. As soon as a new distribution comes out, it is on the platform pretty much the same day, which I find really helpful."

"The virtual machine configuration tool is very helpful for setting up a new server or for modifying an existing server."

"The solution integrates easily."

"They handle the backup process quite well. They automatically encapsulate it, including container backups, without relying heavily on the client's involvement. This is a significant advantage compared to other providers where clients often need to manage the process more independently. It's a feature that I find suitable and beneficial."

"The production environment is highly available, which nowadays is a requirement for all of the big companies."

"Amazon EC2 Container Service has multiple valuable features like load balancers and autoscalers."

"The solution is user-friendly."

"We use the product for website and email database hosting."

"A really good feature of ECS is the integration with AWS services, especially the networking services like Elastic Load Balancer, Service Mesh, and Service Map, which simplifies the service discovery process."

"The product's initial setup was very straightforward and not complex."

"For Amazon EC2 Container Service, providing the ability for users to select specific processor, memory, disk, and interface types might be an ideal feature. But, the practicality of offering all possible physical combinations is nearly impossible due to the underlying physical machines. AWS and Azure organize options into groups based on essential components like powerful processors or critical interfaces, considering physical restrictions. While expanding these choices is conceivable, it may not be feasible from a financial and practical perspective. Customers generally comprehend this limitation, as even in their own data centers, exact physical machine requirements are often a result of a combination of factors such as price, availability, and new machine generations."

"There is room for improvement regarding customer support."

"The product must improve its security."

"There is no notification from the company regarding upgrades."

"The only improvement in this aspect of the service which I can think of is perhaps a pool of developers who could be hired for those cases where the need goes beyond the support offered."

"I don't know how all of their services work, but my understanding is that they're not offering the entry-level machine for someone who just wants to own their own web page."

"Because they are a smaller company, they do not have, for example, all of the ways for authentication that Amazon or Azure has."

"When it comes to marketing and exposure, Linode needs improvement because I just randomly found them by looking for Linux solutions."

"They are already working on the firewalls and VLANs, which need improvement, and are now in beta. I am on the beta program for the firewalls, but I can't use it yet because they are only in Mumbai and Australia, and I am not in those data centres. This is the one thing that I have been waiting for almost since the day that I joined them, so it is nice that they are doing that. The VLANs will be an improvement as well, and I am keen and waiting for that."

"Currently, when scaling with Amazon Elastic Container Service, I have to choose between monitoring CPU or memory usage to scale up or scale out; there is no option to monitor both simultaneously."

"The solution's stability is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"There is room for improvement in the licensing costs. There can be better licensing costs."

"The tool initially required a significant amount of development time on the backend, but in terms of efficiency, it's a one-time effort."

"The solution could provide more reliability."

"In the next release, they could add some customization options for high computer workloads."

"The product can become expensive if you don't choose what you want."

"Amazon Elastic Container Service should simplify its management. It can be difficult for someone who doesn't have much experience with the tool. Also, the tool needs to add the ability to manage networks."

"The biggest benefit of Linode is the pricing. It's the best deal in the business... Their pricing model is also very simple compared to Azure. I don't understand why Azure doesn't price things the way that Linode does."

"At this point, I'm paying more like $35 per month for a slightly bigger machine, and the backup, and the object service."

"There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees to include things like extra public IPs and backup services."

"The monthly cost depends on your requirements."

"Compared to other service providers, like AWS and Google, the cost of services are much less and more affordable. We are saving about 90 percent by going with Linode versus other cloud providers."

"The pricing model is very simple. If you have very small applications, you can use the plan which costs $5 per month. That gives you 50 GB of memory and almost 1 GB of RAM. If you need more than you have to select the next plan which is $10 per month, which has about 70 GB of data and 2 GB of RAM."

"Pricing is very good and flexible, according to the resources required."

"One key difference is that pricing is very hard to come by and to understand with all the bigger companies. Their pricing models are so weird and it's hard to figure out exactly how much I am going to pay for this kind of service. Everything is piecemeal. With Linode, it's simple and straightforward. You know exactly what you will have to pay at the end of the day."

"Amazon EC2 Container Service is an expensive solution."

"The product's pricing is good."

"There is no need to pay anything towards the licensing costs of Amazon EC2 Container Service."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price, I rate Amazon EC2 Container Service’s pricing a four or five out of ten."

"The tool's licensing is monthly."

"Amazon ECS is expensive."

"They offer a pay-as-you-go pricing model for the product."

"If you increase the sizes, you incur costs to your accounts."