AWS Elastic Beanstalk vs Jelastic

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With [AWS] Elastic Beanstalk, you can interact by using the Elastic Beanstalk console, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), a high-level CLI designed specifically for Elastic Beanstalk. [AWS] Elastic Beanstalk can be deployed quickly and provides a lot of functionality that would otherwise take a longer time to set up and maintain

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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees

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In case you want a cheaper PaaS that may be available in your country (Brazil, in my case), you may give Jelastic a try. There are some other strong competitors for the PaaS scenario with free versions, but the paid versions are far more expensive.

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Willian Molinari

Tech lead

LocawebInternet, 1001-5000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Jelastic

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

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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Diego Gamez

Analista de Proyectos

Cyberline SRLTelecommunications, 51-200 employees

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Easy to use, the interface guides you to create your application.
Custom SSL certificate. You can upload your own certificates and it will configure them for you.

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Willian Molinari

Tech lead

LocawebInternet, 1001-5000 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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Joshua Dickson

Director of Engineering

NorthOutComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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SSH is still tricky to use. You have to log in to a gateway and go to an option menu to get logged in. Sometimes it was not available or too slow.
Some errors are not clear enough. It took some time to understand which files I had to upload to get my custom SSL certificates working.

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Willian Molinari

Tech lead

LocawebInternet, 1001-5000 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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Usability

AWS Elastic Beanstalk 7.6

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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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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

AWS Elastic Beanstalk 7.6

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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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Verified User

Consultant in Engineering

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

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Implementation Rating

AWS Elastic Beanstalk 7.0

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- 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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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

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The price of Jelastic for the paid version (considering SSL) is better.

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Willian Molinari

Tech lead

LocawebInternet, 1001-5000 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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Sandeep Singh

Consultant

HCL TechnologiesInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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It has powered my project since its creation. It's a small project but I did not have any problems until now.

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Willian Molinari

Tech lead

LocawebInternet, 1001-5000 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

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Jelastic Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Jelastic

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Jelastic

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Jelastic

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Jelastic

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Jelastic

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