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Feature Set Ratings
- Dokku ranks higher in 1 feature set: Platform-as-a-Service
Platform-as-a-Service
8.3
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
83%
8.6
Dokku
86%
AWS Elastic Beanstalk ranks higher in 6/11 features
AWS Elastic Beanstalk ranks higher in 6/11 features
Ease of building user interfaces
9.2
92%
18 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Scalability
8.9
89%
29 Ratings
8.0
80%
1 Rating
Platform management overhead
8.9
89%
28 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Workflow engine capability
8.9
89%
23 Ratings
7.0
70%
1 Rating
Platform access control
7.3
73%
28 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Services-enabled integration
6.8
68%
28 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Development environment creation
8.7
87%
28 Ratings
8.0
80%
1 Rating
Development environment replication
8.3
83%
29 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Issue monitoring and notification
7.7
77%
28 Ratings
7.0
70%
1 Rating
Issue recovery
8.4
84%
26 Ratings
9.0
90%
1 Rating
Upgrades and platform fixes
7.9
79%
27 Ratings
7.0
70%
1 Rating
Attribute Ratings
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk is rated higher in 1 area: Support Rating
- Dokku is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
80%
29 Ratings
9.0
Dokku
90%
1 Rating
Likelihood to Renew
7.9
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
79%
2 Ratings
Dokku
N/A
0 Ratings
Usability
7.7
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
77%
9 Ratings
Dokku
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating
8.0
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
80%
24 Ratings
5.0
Dokku
50%
2 Ratings
Implementation Rating
7.0
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
70%
4 Ratings
Dokku
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is well suited for [the] rapid development of applications that use standard compute platforms based on popular programming languages. So getting a Go, Python, Ruby, or Node.js app going in AWS Elastic Beanstalk will be easy. For non-standard applications, containers provide another option for using AWS Elastic Beanstalk. In either case, AWS Elastic Beanstalk is well suited for applications that are [self-contained]. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is also good for development or test environments that need a built-in deployment method.AWS Elastic Beanstalk is less appropriate for complex applications that rely on multiple AWS services. While deploying and running the base code might be easy to get going, it may be difficult to apply permissions and integrations with the other services.
Senior Systems Reliability Engineer
The Walt Disney CompanyEntertainment, 10,001+ employees
Dokku
If you have your own in-house servers or have a cloud server with the freedom to configure any PaaS that you want, then Dokku is for you. So far, I have never run into a scenario where Dokku was not able to fit my needs, after deploying many different types of applications with varying frameworks, languages, and connected services. If you already have a PaaS available, however, Dokku may not be for you.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 51-200 employeesPros
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk was easy to implement, we only had to insert the application code to have it up and running in a few minutes. This helps us to launch company campaigns for different areas such as marketing, commercial and human resources.
- It has a fast learning curve, since the training material of the platform is public on the manufacturer's portal, furthermore it is easy to interact and intuitive for developers.
- The productivity of the equipment is optimized since they are not worrying about preparing the platform or infrastructure, they only have to attend to what is required by the application and its operation and this maintenance.
- The indicators and metrics that it has, ensure that the application cannot be saturated and have a performance problem, with AWS Elastic Beanstalk the application can scale resources when needed automatically.
Analista de Proyectos
Cyberline SRLTelecommunications, 51-200 employees
Dokku
- Dockerfile deployments are an incredibly simple and straightforward way to spin up applications.
- The docker-options plugin allows endless direct configuration of options passed to different docker lifecycle stages.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 51-200 employeesCons
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- Limited to the frameworks and configurations that AWS supports. There is no native way to use Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a Go application behind Nginx, for example.
- It's not always clear what's changed on an underlying system when AWS updates an EB stack; the new version is announced, but AWS does not say what specifically changed in the underlying configuration. This can have unintended consequences and result in additional work in order to figure out what changes were made.
Director of Engineering
NorthOutComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Dokku
- Dokku might overreach on its assumptions about how you want to host your app, using its own VHOSTS plugin by default. This may be a pro or a con depending on what you want.
- Proxy port configuration can be somewhat difficult, with Dokku resetting any pre-deployment configuration to "smart" defaults on the first deployment.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 51-200 employeesPricing Details
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$35 per month
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Editions & Modules
Edition
No Charge | $01 |
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- Users pay for AWS resources (e.g. EC2, S3 buckets, etc.) used to store and run the application.
Additional Pricing Details
—Dokku
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Dokku Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Likelihood to Renew
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk 7.9
Based on 2 answers
As our technology grows, it makes more sense to individually provision each server rather than have it done via beanstalk. There are several reasons to do so, which I cannot explain without further diving into the architecture itself, but I can tell you this. With automation, you also loose the flexibility to morph the system for your specific needs. So if you expect that in future you need more customization to your deployment process, then there is a good chance that you might try to do things individually rather than use an automation like beanstalk.
Software Engineer
Capital OneInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Dokku
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Usability
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk 7.7
Based on 9 answers
It is a great tool to manage your applications. You just need to write the codes, and after that with one click, your app will be online and accessible from the internet. That is a huge help for people who do not know about infrastructure or do not want to spend money on maintaining infrastructure.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Insurance Company, 10,001+ employeesDokku
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk 8.0
Based on 24 answers
As I described earlier it has been really cost effective and really easy for fellow developers who don't want to waste weeks and weeks into learning and manually deploying stuff which basically takes month to create and go live with the Minimal viable product (MVP). With AWS Beanstalk within a week a developer can go live with the Minimal viable product easily.

Verified User
Consultant in Engineering
Computer & Network Security Company, 5001-10,000 employeesDokku
Dokku 5.0
Based on 2 answers
Dokku is incredibly well documented and also takes advantage of the documentation and community of Heroku, being essentially the same thing, but in the case that you encounter an actual bug or issue, it can take time for a fix to make it into a new version. Since you manage Dokku yourself, there is no support team to call for help.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 51-200 employeesImplementation Rating
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk 7.0
Based on 4 answers
- Do as many experiments as you can before you commit on using beanstalk or other AWS features.- Keep future state in mind. Think through what comes next, and if that is technically possible to do so.- Always factor in cost in terms of scaling.- We learned a valuable lesson when we wanted to go multi-region, because then we realized many things needs to change in code. So if you plan on using this a lot, factor multiple regions.
Software Engineer
Capital OneInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Dokku
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk handles better in server autoscaling, load balancers,networking infrastructure for databases.It also helps in creating all of the architecture needed to run our apps and services.[AWS] Elastic Beanstalk also handles all of the provisioning, scaling, and implementation of the application stack unlike other competitors without a fuss.

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 51-200 employeesDokku
Dokku is essentially the same thing as Heroku, except maintained by you on the platform of your choice. If you have any experience using Heroku, then you will feel right at home using Dokku. Dokku is an entirely free to use PaaS, requiring only that you have a platform to deploy it on, making it far more versatile than Heroku in my opinion.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 51-200 employeesReturn on Investment
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- Greatly reduced time in setting up and deploying test environments has saved a lot of hours and money.
- Near-zero maintenance means that we don't spend any time tending to servers, the app containers just work.
- The initial learning curve is a little steep to get services hosted in Elastic Beanstalk talking to external services like Redis, MongoDB, etc; but once one understands the pattern, development is a breeze.
- The command line interface has enabled us to build many utility scripts that simplify our development workflow, thereby saving time.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 1-10 employeesDokku
- Since there's no investment besides a little time to set up, the return has been overwhelmingly positive.
- Deploying a new app is incredibly quick and easy.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 51-200 employees