We performed a comparison between Amazon EKS and Linode based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware and others in Container Management."Through Amazon EKS, we can have the blue-green deployment very easily."
"Amazon EKS is like Kubernetes, but it helps manage our nodes and scalability in AWS."
"It's a faster solution to adopt on native applications."
"Initial setup is straightforward. It only takes 15 minutes to deploy."
"The solution has very good basic features."
"The tool works well with the nodes in AWS. It's scalability is also good in terms of architecture."
"I like the scalability they're currently providing. Integration was very easy. It was a good experience."
"The product helps us to configure the new environment."
"Service availability is the most valuable feature. It gives every user 100 percent uptime."
"The most valuable feature is that they are flexible and easy to get ahold of if I need something."
"The ability to fire up a virtual machine, use it, and then kill it, is quite a valuable feature for me."
"The virtual machine configuration tool is very helpful for setting up a new server or for modifying an existing server."
"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."
"Because of the way that their pricing model is set up, I can scale up or down the size of a customer's server very easily. It makes life very easy for me when they run out of space, need more speed or RAM, etc. I can very easily pay the difference and reboot the machine, and now I have the upgrade that I wanted. That just makes it extremely simple."
"Linode offers cost-effective pricing, and it enables me to swiftly deploy my services."
"The most valuable aspects of Linode are the virtual server and the clean server. I install what I need on it."
"The goal and idea behind microservices are to always be available and capable of handling any load, no matter how many requests come through...All of these services are great, but I also think it would be useful to have the same technology available in a miniature resource size, enabling the same applications and services to run on a small machine."
"Amazon EKS needs to improve customer operations and technical support."
"I would like Amazon EKS to be easier to configure on various environments like Windows or Linux installations"
"An area for improvement in Amazon EKS is the user experience. The platform could be more user-friendly. Only an expert can manage and use it."
"They could add logging features. At present, we use external tools to increase and decrease the number of instances."
"The dashboard needs to be more user-friendly."
"The connectivity could be better."
"I'm having difficulty getting my AWS clusters to communicate with my local machine."
"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."
"It's not really an issue with Linode itself but upgrading Linux major versions can be challenging. It would be be fantastic if Linode developed a way to ease transitioning to a major new Linux upgrade."
"It would be nice if they had more data centers in Latin America."
"The network between different servers isn't very good. I have to install additional solutions to link the servers with each other."
"It would be helpful if they provided the additional Linux distributions that I prefer using. But there is still a workaround. I can do it without direct support. It's a bit more complicated, but it can still be done."
"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."
"I would like Linode (without cluttering things) to provide some type of DevOps workflow where people are configuring their pipelines from running their tests and deploying to their test server. Once approved by clicking a button, it just gets deployed to production. I would like something like Azure DevOps, which we use for large applications, and would be something nice to have in Linode."
"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."
Amazon EKS is ranked 2nd in Container Management with 39 reviews while Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews. Amazon EKS is rated 8.6, while Linode is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Amazon EKS writes "Supports multiple tools and has a straightforward setup process ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Linode writes "Straightforward to set up, helpful support, and the Object Storage is useful for system backups". Amazon EKS is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Kubernetes, Rancher Labs and HashiCorp Nomad, whereas Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
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