What users are saying about
Atom vs AWS Cloud9
81 Ratings
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114 Ratings
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Attribute Ratings
- Atom is rated higher in 3 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Usability, Support Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
Atom
96%
30 Ratings
6.4
AWS Cloud9
64%
9 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
Atom
100%
1 Rating
AWS Cloud9
N/A
0 Ratings
Usability
9.0
Atom
90%
2 Ratings
8.0
AWS Cloud9
80%
2 Ratings
Support Rating
8.4
Atom
84%
24 Ratings
8.0
AWS Cloud9
80%
3 Ratings
Implementation Rating
10.0
Atom
100%
2 Ratings
AWS Cloud9
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Atom
Atom is great for developers looking for a completely hackable experience. There is a ton of plugins available to you, and you can really build an editor that matches your own personal taste. The performance is also pretty neat and does not impact your CPU as much as the competition.

Verified User
Team Lead in Professional Services
Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employeesAWS Cloud9
AWS Cloud9 is great for product engineering and coding where you must take time to pair program and code in a specific isolated environment. It is entirely cloud based so there's no worry about saving and data consistency. It is all hosted on the Amazon Web Services cloud. It is less appropriate for more general workflows that don't require a specific cloud instance.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesPros
Atom
- Atom is highly customizable and allows for various themes and extensions that can make your code easier to read.
- Atom has many code hinting features that allow users to write faster and integrate with services likeLINT that can clean up your code once your done to meet your internal teams style choices.
- It's very fast and manages projects well - Accessing other files within a related folder(s) is very easy and intuitive.
- It's free!
Sr. Instructional Designer
Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and QualityEducation Management, 10,001+ employees
AWS Cloud9
- It provides an extremely intuitive and easy-to-use interface, so adapting to it does not take much time.
- It contains the most common programming languages.
- It allows the export of files, either directly to the repository or to the team where you want it.
- It is housed in the cloud so you can work with it from anywhere.
- Allows you to share code or work on them with others in real-time.
- Does not require installation.
Software Developer
KANA SoftwareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees
Cons
Atom
- There should be a better user tips manual page to learn keyboard shortcuts
- It would also be beneficial if mathematical and data analytic tools were added
- it has quite high start-up timing when you open large projects to work on it
- Sometimes, atom closed suddenly and do not open again
- It still lacks better options with the previews even though there are already some by users adding plugins
- It doesn't have self-correct features for lint errors, unlike IntelliJ
Software Engineer
Kognoz ConsultingE-Learning, 11-50 employees
AWS Cloud9
- Confusing documentation - AWS's documentation remains quite confusing, and the layout of other services/settings that you have to use with Cloud9 can be a bit of a handful.
- Sometimes slow - As the size of a project increases, the editor gets increasingly slower, and starts slowing down the browser overall.
- Long setup process - The setup for Cloud9 can be hard and tough, especially since the documentation is quite hard to understand.
Co-Founder/CEO
aspace, Inc.Computer Software, 1-10 employees
Pricing Details
Atom
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—AWS Cloud9
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Likelihood to Renew
Atom
Atom 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Well Atom is open source so the re-new is a no brainer. The only way I would stop using Atom is if the developers somehow made it not function well. Or, if the project got forked to a commercial version or something. Or, there could be the case that development stops or that it was not updated on this or that platform
Instructional Technologist
Pomona CollegeHigher Education, 201-500 employees
AWS Cloud9
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Usability
Atom
Atom 9.0
Based on 2 answers
I give Atom a 9 because it is one of the most modern text editors built with JavaScript intentionally to allow the editor to be changed and modified with custom functionality that a team may need. I think I would otherwise give atom an 8 due to support, but it gets a 9/10 because of the extensibility/plugin capability.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesAWS Cloud9
AWS Cloud9 8.0
Based on 2 answers
The interface for Cloud9 needs some improvement. It is simply not as powerful and intelligent as a local text editor would be and thus it lacks the capabilities of fast filling when coding. Otherwise, I think it has a fair interface that they have tried mimicking an IDE.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesSupport Rating
Atom
Atom 8.4
Based on 24 answers
Atom has an active forum and a Slack group where you can ask technical questions. Occasionally, the authors will pop in to answer a few questions here and there, but most of the time, its other helpful users who will assist you. Though they aren't the most knowledgeable, they are at least timely.
As for plugin support, that differs with each plugin, but as I mentioned before, many plugins are no longer maintained.
Senior Software Engineer
IterableInternet, 201-500 employees
AWS Cloud9
AWS Cloud9 8.0
Based on 3 answers
Customer support is managed by the Cloud support team. I won't be able to comment on details, but it's fast.

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employeesImplementation Rating
Atom
Atom 10.0
Based on 2 answers
Just download and install
Instructional Technologist
Pomona CollegeHigher Education, 201-500 employees
AWS Cloud9
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Atom
They are both pretty good; however, Sublime is free to use but on a trial basis. Atom is free open source. Sublime doesn't have the Github integration or a project file browser. Sublime does have a workspace view option but haven't really used it as much as Atom.
Information Designer
The Pixel ZooOnline Media, 1-10 employees
AWS Cloud9
[AWS] Cloud9 offers specific features not available in the competition: Code collaboration using the chat features is the highlight which sets it apart. [The] code completion feature makes [it] very similar to the offline IDE like eclipse. It's much easier to use compared to Codeanywhere. It provides terminal access to EC2 instances and hence other amazon services.

Verified User
Contributor in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 5001-10,000 employeesReturn on Investment
Atom
- The tool we use when we need quick fixes. Allows fast, reliable scripting to fix urgent problems in our applications.
- When applications grow from 5-10 files to 100's, they need to be migrated to a heavier-duty IDE. This can be cumbersome and quite annoying, but is necessary to maintain code integrity on such a large scale (since it cannot be done with the limited default toolset of Atom).
DevOps Engineer
CBREReal Estate, 10,001+ employees
AWS Cloud9
- Positive: No need to buy additional hardware to serve as buffer.
- Negative: Service downtime causes significant productivity losses.
- Negative: Users get locked into a certain subset of tools, which are not always appropriate.

Verified User
Technician in Research & Development
Research Company, 11-50 employees