AWS Elastic Beanstalk vs IBM Cloud Virtual Servers | TrustRadius

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Score 8.5 out of 10

Based on 246 reviews and ratings

Score 8 out of 10

Based on 110 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers

Ease of building user interfaces

Scalability

Platform management overhead

Workflow engine capability

Platform access control

Services-enabled integration

Development environment creation

Development environment replication

Issue monitoring and notification

Issue recovery

Upgrades and platform fixes

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

Dynamic scaling

Elastic load balancing

Pre-configured templates

Monitoring tools

Pre-defined machine images

Operating system support

Security controls

Pros

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.

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Analista de Proyectos

Cyberline SRLTelecommunications, 51-200 employees

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The pricing options for services is awesome, offering bare-metal and other high-demand services at hourly rates.
Softlayer offers a huge assortment of high-powered services, such as Nvidia Tesla GPU computing, high-bandwidth connection options, and highly customizable bare-metal servers
All of Softlayers' plans and services are fully adaptable to to fit your needs, with a huge amount of options for both the services they offer and the management options available for those services.

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Sr. Network Engineer

GodAmongGeeks.ComInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Cons

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.

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Director of Engineering

NorthOutComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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The IBM Cloud Web UI is very slow and not responsive
It would be nice to provide a direct way to choose a template image when creating a VSI
It would be nice if transient VSIs can be resized (CPU and Mem)

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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Research Company, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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.

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Rahul Chaudhary

Software Engineer

Capital OneInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers 8.2

Based on 1 answer

It's hard to imagine not renewing having spent so much time setting up our infrastructure to utilise the CVS

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Strategist in Finance and Accounting

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

AWS Elastic Beanstalk 7.6

Based on 10 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.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees

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No answers yet

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Support Rating

AWS Elastic Beanstalk 7.6

Based on 19 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.

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Consultant in Engineering

Computer & Network Security Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers 7.5

Based on 2 answers

It is adequate, but you need to be ready to argue your point - which is fair enough, I suppose, but being given the opposite of the benefit of the doubt every time does not necessarily result in an enjoyable user experience.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Utilities Company, 11-50 employees

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Implementation Rating

AWS Elastic Beanstalk 7.0

Based on 2 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.

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Rahul Chaudhary

Software Engineer

Capital OneInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We also use Heroku and it is a great platform for smaller projects and light Node.js services, but we have found that in terms of cost, the Elastic Beanstalk option is more affordable for the projects that we undertake. The fact that it sits inside of the greater AWS Cloud offering also compels us to use it, since integration is simpler.We have also evaluated Microsoft Azure and gave up trying to get an extremely basic implementation up and running after a few days of struggling with its mediocre user interface and constant issues with documentation being outdated. The authentication model is also badly broken and trying to manage resources is a pain. One cannot compare Azure with anything that Amazon has created in the cloud space since Azure really isn't a mature platform and we are always left wanting when we have to interface with it.

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C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

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I have had a dedicated server for 20 years. The last company, Softlayer, got bought out by IBM, and the transition has been a very good one. When I started using IBM for all my hosting solutions, I became a really big fan. Everything has been a user-friendly experience. The products have been really easy to work with.

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Owner / Creative Director / Developer / Digital Marketing

FanbuildInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

till now we had not Calculated ROI as the project is still evolving and we had to keep on changing the environment implementation
it meets our purpose of quick deployment as compared to on-premises deployment
till now we look good as we also controlled our expenses which increased suddenly in the middle of deployment activity

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Consultant

HCL TechnologiesInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Freed up our team to focus on working on our own products and not having to worry about maintaining and patching servers.
On-demand procurement allowed our team to quickly spin up servers as needed and shut them down when work is done.

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Program Manager

AppFusionsComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Editions & Modules

Edition

No Charge	$0¹

Users pay for AWS resources (e.g. EC2, S3 buckets, etc.) used to store and run the application.

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Editions & Modules

Edition

IBM Cloud Public Virtual Servers	starting at $0.038¹
IBM Cloud Dedicated Virtual Servers	starting at $0.22¹
IBM Cloud Public Virtual Servers	starting at $25.21²
IBM Cloud Dedicated Virtual Servers	starting at $149.00²
IBM Cloud Transient Virtual Servers	starting at $0.01³
IBM Cloud Reserved Virtual Servers	starting at $0.02³
IBM Cloud Reserved Virtual Servers	starting at $13.27⁴

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Additional Pricing Details

IBM Cloud virtual servers include 250 GB of outbound public bandwidth, unmetered inbound public bandwidth, and unmetered private and management network bandwidth.

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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers

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