AWS Elastic Beanstalk vs Proxmox VE | TrustRadius

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Score 8.5 out of 10

Based on 255 reviews and ratings

Score 9.2 out of 10

Based on 23 reviews and ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

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Michael Jenkins

Senior Systems Reliability Engineer

The Walt Disney CompanyEntertainment, 10,001+ employees

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From my own experience, I believe Proxmox VE to be very well suited for small businesses that need a virtualisation solution without breaking the bank. You can start off with the free edition and that might very well be all you need. If you do require a paid plan, there are multiple plans to choose from, to suit most budgets. This isn't to say it not's suitable for medium and large businesses, but I have no personal experience of it at that scale.

Organisations with experience of Debian and/or Ubuntu based systems, will feel right at home straight away. The base OS is mostly unchanged from upstream so things generally just work as you'd expect them to.

One scenario that might make you think twice about Proxmox VE, is if you have already standardised on non-ZFS storage, such as hardware RAID. Although I'm sure this can be made to work, Proxmox really shines when used in combination with ZFS.

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Employee in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Proxmox VE

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

Proxmox VE

Virtual machine automated provisioning

Management console

Live virtual machine backup

Live virtual machine migration

Hypervisor-level security

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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Versatility. The ability to utilize more than one type of storage for each instance.
Stability. Proxmox VE is the most stable hypervisor management solution I have seen to date. It just keeps going and going and going.
Speed. Utilizing Linux KVM and OpenVZ, you get the fastest and more capable virtual machines on the market today. And Proxmox VE's interface is always instantly loaded when you need it.
Reliability. Using standard tools, including Red Hat Cluster Suite, and providing command-line tools as well, this makes maintaining and using Proxmox VE more reliable and manageable to quickly get things back in running order when things do happen to stop.

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System Administrator

Mobiquity, Inc.Recreational Facilities and Services, 501-1000 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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VDI brokering - it doesn't do this natively.
Hyperconvergence is still nascent and requires a lot of work.

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Director Of Information Technology and HIPAA Privacy Officer

Continuum of CareHospital & Health Care, 501-1000 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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Proxmox VE 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Proxmox VE provides the most capable, yet stable virtualization platform in the market today. Licensing options are also competitive and cost-effective for support, and support is extremely fast and knowledgable of getting issues resolved as quickly and soundly as possible.

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System Administrator

Mobiquity, Inc.Recreational Facilities and Services, 501-1000 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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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees

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Proxmox VE 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Out of every product I have used for this, Proxmox VE is the most concise, clear, and functional I have ever seen. I continue to use Proxmox VE even after occasionally comparing alternatives available because of it's usability, design concept, and great support of features. It's very unlikely I will find a product that can even compete with Proxmox VE in every angle of what Proxmox VE provides.

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System Administrator

Mobiquity, Inc.Recreational Facilities and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

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Proxmox VE 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Proxmox VE's ha-cluster functionality is very much improved, though does have a not-very-often occurrence of failure. In a 2-node cluster of Proxmox VE, HA can fail causing an instance that is supposed to migrate between the two nodes stop and fail until manually recovered through the command-line tools provided. Other than this, the HA clustering capability of Proxmox VE has proven to be reliable in 3 or more clustered environments with much less chance of these failures to occur.

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System Administrator

Mobiquity, Inc.Recreational Facilities and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Performance

No score

No answers yet

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Proxmox VE 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Proxmox VE's interfacing is always fast to load, both the Web interface and the command-line tool interfaces. Reporting is practically real time almost all the time, and you can see everything in mere seconds, easily able to identify if something is wrong or it everything is in tip-top shape as always desired

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System Administrator

Mobiquity, Inc.Recreational Facilities and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Support Rating

AWS Elastic Beanstalk 7.8

Based on 20 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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Verified User

Consultant in Engineering

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

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Proxmox VE 10.0

Based on 1 answer

They are fast, understanding, very intelligent, know their product very well, fast, responsive, and concise. Need I say more?

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System Administrator

Mobiquity, Inc.Recreational Facilities and Services, 501-1000 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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Proxmox VE 10.0

Based on 1 answer

It worked, was easy and super fast to deploy, and provided everything we needed in a matter of minutes

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System Administrator

Mobiquity, Inc.Recreational Facilities and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees

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The Proxmox Cluster solution only requires a browser to control and manage all of your server resources. The other solutions require you to run a specific Operating System to manage them, getting awkward since the underlying technology runs on another OS. The native integration with Ceph is big move on this wonderful Storage Technology

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CTO

Maila NetworksComputer & Network Security, 11-50 employees

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Scalability

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Proxmox VE 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Proxmox VE provides everything you need to quickly add new storage mediums, network and local, as well as networking interfaces, such as using Linux standard bridges and now Open-vSwitch bridges which can be even more scalable than before. Proxmox VE 4.0 dropped support for OpenVZ in favor of the more well supported and native LXC and made an upgrade path to it very simple.

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System Administrator

Mobiquity, Inc.Recreational Facilities and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

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.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

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Proxmox has allowed us to provide completely free training and an application development environment by reusing desktop hardware.

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Technical Support Analyst

Nova Scotia Provincial GovInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

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

—

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Proxmox VE Editions & Modules

Edition

Community	€ 90¹
Basic	€ 280¹
Standard	€ 420¹
Premium	€ 840¹

year & CPU socket

Additional Pricing Details

Proxmox Virtual Environment's source code is published under the free software license GNU AGPL, v3 and thus is freely available for download, use and share. A Proxmox VE Subscription is an additional service program that helps IT professionals and businesses keep Proxmox VE deployments up-to-date. A subscription provides access to the stable Proxmox VE Enterprise Repository delivering software updates and security enhancements, technical help and support.

Rating Summary

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Proxmox VE

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Proxmox VE

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Proxmox VE

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Proxmox VE

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Proxmox VE

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Proxmox VE

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Proxmox VE

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