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Feature Set Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service
8.3
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
83%

Mule ESB
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
AWS Elastic Beanstalk ranks higher in 11/11 features
AWS Elastic Beanstalk ranks higher in 11/11 features
Ease of building user interfaces
9.3
93%
18 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Scalability
8.9
89%
29 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Platform management overhead
8.9
89%
28 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Workflow engine capability
8.9
89%
23 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Platform access control
7.3
73%
28 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Services-enabled integration
6.8
68%
28 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Development environment creation
8.6
86%
28 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Development environment replication
8.3
83%
29 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification
7.6
76%
28 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Issue recovery
8.5
85%
26 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes
7.9
79%
27 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Mule ESB is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
80%
29 Ratings

9.8
Mule ESB
98%
5 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
7.9
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
79%
2 Ratings

Mule ESB
N/A
0 Ratings
Usability
7.7
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
77%
9 Ratings

Mule ESB
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating
8.0
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
80%
24 Ratings

Mule ESB
N/A
0 Ratings
Implementation Rating
7.0
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
70%
4 Ratings

Mule ESB
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
Mule ESB
If you’re bringing anything into Salesforce you should just invest now into Mule, you will get your money’s worth and find a myriad of uses to build APIs between many other systems. Once you build a component you can easily reuse it as a building block to attach to another source/destination. This makes it easy to ramp up quickly and spread usage of Mule throughout your enterprise. A good value for medium to large companies, but probably cheaper to outsource your job to a consulting firm if you are smaller.

Verified User
Manager in Finance and Accounting
Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ 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
Mule ESB
- It is best suited for Rest API development. Mule ESB uses RAML as an API descriptor which is less complex and easy to understand. RAML is an open standard majorly supported by Mulesoft. Once RAML is developed, it is very easy (a few clicks)to create flows corresponding to the resources defined in the RAML. One can also include JSON schema validation in RAML, and with the use of APIkit router, Mule ESB makes the request validation very easy (it's automatic basically.)
- Mule ESB comes with a large spectrum of community and enterprise connectors. We have connectors for all the major platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Salesforce, SAP, etc. This enables Mule ESB to integrate with the other systems in a faster and more robust way. Mule ESB has many components to fulfill the requirements of each integration (for example batch processing, parallel processing, choice, etc.)
- Mule API gateway is one of the best tools (modules) of Mulesoft's offering. It supports API governance and management very well. One can easily enforce policies on their APIs with API gateway. It enables some of the must-have features in an API solution (i.e. throttling, oAuth, access levels, etc.)
- Implementing a CI/CD (DevOps) environment for Mule ESB is a very easy task. Mule majorly uses MAVEN as its build tool, which in turn makes it best suitable for CI/CD approach. Mule also provides MAVEN plugins for auto deployments to the servers. Mule also has a best Unit testing module which is MUnit. MUnit can be used for both Unit and Functional testing, and it is easy to write and generates coverage reports in various formats.
Tech Arch Sr. Analyst
Accenture AustraliaInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Cons
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
Mule ESB
- Make sure to not over-engineer shared components. It can complicate development
- Create a roadmap for where you are going - if not, you may miss components
- I suggest getting support, otherwise it could be a difficult learning curve

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ 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
—Mule ESB
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Mule ESB 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
Mule ESB
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+ employeesMule ESB
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 employeesMule ESB
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Implementation 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
Mule ESB
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 employeesMule ESB
It doesn't have API . We have to go for another API manager. But in Mule, it has both API manager and ESB
Mule ESB, API and CloudHub Integration Lead
HealthfirstHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees
Return 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 employeesMule ESB
- Overall a great tool for complex integrations
Technical Consultant
AppirioInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees