Akamai Cloud Computing vs. Amazon Web Services

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Akamai Cloud Computing	Score7.9 out of 10	N/A	Akamai 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 Web Services	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing services. With over 165 services offered, AWS services can provide users with a comprehensive suite of infrastructure and computing building blocks and tools.	$100 per month

CPU, 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.

AWS allows a “save when you commit” option that offers lower prices when you sign up for a 1- or 3- year term that includes an AWS service or category of services.

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	Akamai Cloud Computing	Amazon Web Services
Considered Both Products	Akamai Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Compared to the big cloud players like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, MS Azure, Oracle Cloud, and co., Linode's product is simpler and cheaper. For quick and straightforward client engagements, the power and flexibility afforded by the previously mentioned vendors … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing I have used Amazon Web Services (AWS) before this and both are reliable. AWS is just as easy to use, but the costs are harder to understand, because they are not fixed, they are dependent on usage. If you have a low usage but an abnormal process the costs can spiral without … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Google Computer Engine: it is too expensive. You have to pay for computing resources (CPU, memory), storage, network traffic individually. While the quality of service is good, it's still with the same level of Linode. Amazon Web Services: it's more affordable, comparable to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Setup and management of Linode services were just simpler than similar services from Rackspace or Amazon Web Services, both of which are cumbersome and confusing to the point of frustration. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing I have used both Linode and Amazon Web Services (AWS), in similar roles. The ease of use and barrier to entry is like night and day between the two. With AWS, I was facing a steep learning curve, hidden costs buried in [small print,] and a feeling that managing AWS was going to … Incentivized Helpful? Erik Rothoff Andersson Founder in Engineering at Feeder (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing It is more user-friendly than the big three cloud providers like AWS and GCP. The interface blows them out of the water; pricing is so much more competitive—no egregious bandwidth fees like AWS. As a small startup, cutting out the overhead of ultra-complex UI and pricing … Incentivized Helpful? 👨🏼‍💻 Roy Verrips Director in Information Technology at Cential (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode's offering is almost identical to DigitalOcean's, but I find Linode's customer service better AWS, Azure and Google Cloud provide all services Linode does, but provides a much large set of other features and customizations. Incentivized Helpful? Arthur Furlan CEO & Co-founder in Information Technology at Configr (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode delivers higher performance cloud servers, within an easier web interface, simpler API, and better cost-benefit. Amazon has a complex interface that many times make the customers spend much more time in order to finish simple tasks and use "AWS-terms" so even if you need … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode often offers the most competitive pricing on regular usage. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode's price for performance is unmatched. The scalability and customizability of their offerings is likewise superlative. Uptime is great and they have servers in all of the places we need them. Security is on par with the rest. Their web interface is useful. Their … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing For other jobs I worked with both AWS and GCP and they both are mind-boggling complex in comparison. You have a running machine on Linode by the time you just started reading what services you need to activate for your project in AWS / GCP. This also makes the pricing of Linode … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing We considered Digital Ocean but the overall offering was not found as convincing at the time. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode is far simpler to use than AWS. Digital Ocean is roughly comparable but the simplicity and customer support of Linode along with roughly equivalent cost kept me with Linode vs. going to Digital Ocean. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode ultimately has better value for money. Not as many features/services as AWS but they do cloud computing very well. Managed databases are something we’d like to see and it’s on Linode’s roadmap. AWS nickels and dimes you for everything. We’ve also considered UpCloud, … Incentivized Helpful? Praneeth Karnena Software Engineer in Information Technology at Hallmark Solutions (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing There are giants in the cloud industry like AWS and GCP, which most businesses and corporations prefer. They offer a wide range of services. Hence they are preferred. And they offer enterprise support. They offer full control over user management, security and permissions. They … Incentivized Helpful? Christophe Pettus CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Corporate at PostgreSQL Experts, Inc. (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Compared to the "big three" cloud providers, Linode does not have the enormous range of service offerings that they do. I would not attempt to build the next Instagram on Linode. But for companies that simply want a straight-forward cloud provider, they're definitely our … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode's cost is a fraction compared to Azure and Amazon. Additionally, the bandwidth and throughput of the machines on the Linode network is also better. Incentivized Helpful? Sheikh Hussnain Junior Web Developer in Information Technology at SheikhLogix (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing I also used AWS, they are good but their interface is very complex. You need a person to manage on AWS due to its complexity but on Linode, its interface is very clear and simple. You don't need any person to look up for it as you can easily manage the things on Linode. That's … Incentivized Helpful? Jeffery Painter Founder in Information Technology at Jivecast (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing I use AWS at my day job, and I find their admin tools to be a lot more cumbersome and difficult to use as compared to the Linode management interface. I also find the AWS pricing models to be complicated and harder to understand. Linode is just easier to work with. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing I chose Linode because of its simpler and easy-to-understand pricing structure. Deployment of nodes seemed easier as well. Another thing I may add is that Linode just seems more professional. Linode gives you a lot more flexibility and control compared to GoDaddy. DigitalOce… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode is cheaper and easier to understand, though it may not have all of the same options. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing I don't have extensive experience with VPS services, but I steered away from Amazon and toward Linode specifically because the latter was easier to use. Amazon offered a lot of flexibility, but it was geared to meet the needs of experienced developers. Linode's package deals … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode is most cost effective among all services reviewed and particularly well suited for cases in which loads are predictable and not continually expanding. Incentivized Helpful? Erik Arneson Consultant in Information Technology at Self-Employed (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode offers a fairly specialized subset of cloud services, which makes the dashboard interface a million times easier to use than both GCP and AWS. In addition, their VPS offerings give you a broader range of control with (thankfully) fewer options. This makes it easier to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode is competitively priced, but more importantly its management interface is fantastic. Over the past seven years, I have seen firsthand the deep expertise behind the decisions they make in both their physical layers (data centers) and software stacks. Incentivized Helpful?	Amazon AWS Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member in Engineering at Jombay (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services is much more mature than all of the cloud service providers out in the market. It has 300+ services that solve almost all of your cloud problems. Incentivized Helpful?
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Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Akamai Cloud Computing and Amazon Web Services
Feature	Akamai Cloud Computing - Ratings	Amazon Web Services 8.3 68 Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	00 Ratings	9.364 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	00 Ratings	9.065 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	00 Ratings	9.761 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	00 Ratings	7.557 Ratings
Monitoring tools	00 Ratings	7.065 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	00 Ratings	6.758 Ratings
Operating system support	00 Ratings	8.463 Ratings
Security controls	00 Ratings	8.366 Ratings
Automation	00 Ratings	8.717 Ratings

User Ratings
	Akamai Cloud Computing	Amazon Web Services
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (216 ratings)	9.0 (80 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.3 (29 ratings)	9.4 (10 ratings)
Usability	9.5 (21 ratings)	8.5 (11 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (3 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	8.2 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.2 (215 ratings)	7.2 (24 ratings)
Online Training	8.2 (1 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (11 ratings)	10.0 (3 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)

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