Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) vs Google Kubernetes Engine comparison

"It is also important that Linode offers worldwide coverage via multiple data centers. The ability to deploy on multiple servers, worldwide, allows us to have distributed services and failover and redundancy."

"The solution integrates easily."

"The simplicity by which you can handle your inventory is one of the things I like the most."

"When I started using Linode, I found its functionality easy to navigate, user-friendly and responsive to my needs. It provides clear reminders about services I'm not using, like DNS zones, which I appreciate."

"Generally speaking, I have not found any faults using Linode. For what we wanted, they provided a complete solution."

"The cloud management panel is nice."

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

"Linode has many other cloud servers across the globe."

"The most beneficial feature is the ability to separate each project and manage permissions more effectively."

"I am impressed with the product's output scaling."

"The feature that I like the most is the ease of use as compared to AWS. Its ease of use is very high, and I can quickly deploy clusters with a simple template."

"We hardly have a breakdown. It's been very stable."

"The logs are important for detecting problems in our clusters."

"Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) takes care of managing Kubernetes, including the main control plane. It also offers solutions for monitoring resources and handling external traffic, which is essential for us. Being a cloud-native solution, it relieves us from worrying about these operational aspects."

"The most valuable feature of Google Kubernetes Engine is how you can automatically scale and load balance."

"The solution is available across AWS, GCP and Azure and is seamless."

"The suitability of this solution depends on the features that you need. If you're an Uber-sized company then you're probably not going to want to start using Linode. If you are a large-sized organization then you're going to want to start using one of the bigger providers that gives you the scalability and the feature set that you are probably going to be needing in the future."

"They could have more international servers. There are certain places throughout Europe and Eastern Europe which are very open to doing a lot of technology business, such as Romania. Romania is very open to technology. At other service providers, I have stuff in Romania. I think there are some Eastern European locations that would be more open to it. So, if they could have more European points of presence, that would be more helpful."

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

"Our primary concern is always the latency."

"It would be nice if they had more data centers in Latin America."

"They don't have role-based access control, which is problematic for us."

"Everything is up-to-date for a small business. But for big business, they need to improve certain things. For example, there should be better security."

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

"The user interface is a bit confusing sometimes. You need to navigate between the various consoles we have. It's hard to figure out where things are. It's frustrating. The documentation could be a bit better."

"The product’s visible allocation feature needs improvement."

"Log observability could be made easier so someone from high school can use it without having technological expertise."

"Google Kubernetes Engine is less stable in some highly complex deployments with many nodes."

"t is not very stable."

"The network configuration has to be simplified."

"I would like the solution to integrate with another Kubernetes product. I would also like it to monitor other platforms. It needs to also include scale-up container in the tool's next release."

"There is room for improvement in this solution. For example, auto-scaling can be complex. We expect it to be easier to set up and manage, even for our customers."

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

"is a little cheaper than Google or Amazon, more or less on par with the other competitors."

"I pay $5 per month for each of three servers, for a total of $15 per month, and I normally prepay a few months in advance."

"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 value for the price is really good."

"There might be something a little bit cheaper but I find it very fair and competitive, and nothing to complain about."

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

"The pricing model is very simple. I like the simplicity of it, starting at $5, then doubling as it goes up from there. That is a brilliant idea, and it is not complex at all. It is about as dead simple as you can imagine. So, if you want to double what you have, then you double your price, pay the money, and reboot. It is done. It's that simple. You can't beat that."

"Initially, Google Kubernetes Engine was a little bit cheaper, but now its prices have been increased compared to the pricing model and the features that are made available by its competitors."

"I rate the product's price a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price. The product is competitively priced."

"The pricing for GKE is dependent on the type of machine or virtual machine (VM) that is selected for the nodes in the cluster. There is a degree of flexibility in choosing the specifications of the machine, such as the number of CPUs, GPUs, and so on. Google provides a variety of options, allowing the user to create the desired cluster composition. However, the cost can be quite steep when it comes to regional clusters, which are necessary for high availability and failover. This redundancy is crucial for businesses and is required to handle an increase in requests in case of any issues in one region, such as jumping to a different region in case of a failure in the Toronto region. While it may be tempting to choose the cheapest type of machines, this may result in a limited capacity and user numbers, requiring over-provisioning to handle additional requests, such as those for a web application."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."

"Its pricing is good. They bill us only per user. That's nice."

"Currently, it costs around $1000 per month which sorted our deployment. So once we get more clients, having a huge suffix, costs can go up."

"The product is a little bit expensive."

"It is competitive, and it is not expensive. It is almost competitive with AWS and the rest of the cloud solutions. We are spending around 3K USD per month. There are four projects that are currently running, and each one is incurring a cost of around 3K USD."