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Akamai Cloud Computing vs. Amazon Lightsail

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Akamai Cloud Computing

367 Reviews and Ratings

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19 Reviews and Ratings

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Akamai Cloud Computing

    Score7.9 out of 10
    		N/AAkamai Cloud Computing (formerly Linode) include scalable and accessible Linux cloud solutions and services. These products and services support developers and enterprises as they build, deploy, secure, and scale applications.

    $5

    per month

    Amazon Lightsail

    Score5.3 out of 10
    		N/AAmazon Lightsail is a virtual private server (VPS) designed to present an easy-to-use cloud platform that offers everything needed to build an application or website, plus a cost-effective, monthly plan.

    $3.50

    per month

    Pricing
    Akamai Cloud ComputingAmazon Lightsail
    Editions & Modules
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    512 MB Linux
    $3.50
    per month
    1 GB Linux
    $5.00
    per month
    2 GB Linux
    $10.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Akamai Cloud ComputingAmazon Lightsail
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsCPU, transfer, storage, and RAM are bundled into one price. Storage capacity can be increased with additional Block Storage or S3-compatible Object Storage. Instant Backups can be added with complete independence to the stack. Linode NodeBalancers ensure applications are available.—
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    Community Pulse
    Akamai Cloud ComputingAmazon Lightsail
    Considered Both Products
    Akamai
    Philip Thomas
    Mr Many Hats in Research & Development at Freelance IT - Pitpat Engineering (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    I am still evaluating DigitalOcean Droplets as their pricepoint has moved more towards Linode, but so far I am leaning back towards Linode. They also don't have the GPU machines. But they do have a wider range of options for CPU. At present if you do lscpu on Linode it lists …
    Incentivized
    Peter Bowyer
    CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Engineering at Maple Design Ltd (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    Linode is cheaper than UpCloud, but disk IO is significantly slower. Linode and DigitalOcean pricing is on par, as are server specs. DO has more services like managed databases, but Linode support has proved significantly more helpful. Linode servers give you significantly more …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    Linode is faster, with no overselling.
    Incentivized
    Andrew Schott
    Owner in Information Technology at Schotty.com (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    Linode is cheaper, more reliable, and easier than the others. Customer service is of better quality as well.
    Incentivized
    Juan Manuel Acuna
    CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Information Technology at Peac Software SA de CV (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    The cost-benefit ratio, along with ease of use and unsurpassed technical support, make Linode our choice.
    Incentivized
    Moshe Katz
    Software Architect in Engineering at Torah.Tech (E-Learning, 1-10 employees)
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    We had previously used inMotion's shared hosting, so when we started to outgrow that service we considered using their VPS option. We found that it would be more expensive than Linode, and not as powerful.

    We considered Amazon EC2, but it is much easier to get started with …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    After evaluation, Linode is still cheaper. We want it cheap and predictable (until we raise Series A).
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    Linode stands tall for Ease of Use and Developer Friendliness. The plans and pricing slabs makes it tough to resist from competition. Also as we get what we are subscribed to, unlike providers like AWS stealing our CPU during high demands, we don’t face issues due to noisy …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    Linode vs. DigitalOcean is one of the closest competitions in the cloud computing industry that I have seen. When it comes to the two I see that the pricing is very very similar and the performance is also very similar. The difference comes with the company culture, support, …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    I've tried all of Digital Ocean, AWS EC2 and AWS Lightsail - I found Linode to give the best price/performance for a VPS. However, compared to serverless functions like AWS Lambda, there's a lot of maintenance work if you want to keep your VPS up-to-date. If you're looking for …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    Vultr has probably the best datacenter distribution in America and Europe, and even Oceania is very well covered. Unfortunately it lacks an Indian datacenter, and performance is poor in some locations. it lacks support for some services like Kubernetes and object storage …
    Incentivized
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Akamai Cloud ComputingAmazon Lightsail
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Akamai Cloud Computing and Amazon Lightsail
    Feature
    Akamai Cloud Computing
    -
    Ratings
    Amazon Lightsail
    9.1
    5 Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings9.34 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings8.85 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings9.65 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    Automation00 Ratings9.64 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Akamai Cloud ComputingAmazon Lightsail
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (216 ratings)
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.3
    (29 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (21 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.2
    (215 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)