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Amazon AWS vs Modal Labs comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon AWS
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
260
Ranking in other categories
PaaS Clouds (2nd)
Modal Labs
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
22nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
2.3
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of Amazon AWS is 15.1%, up from 12.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Modal Labs is 0.8%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon AWS15.1%
Modal Labs0.8%
Other84.1%
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

Asif  Meem - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at sportsbet
Managed cloud services have helped accelerate experiments with flexible configuration options
Sometimes the costs associated with spinning up a service, especially managed services, have implications. For example, if I create a Glue job, that will create S3 buckets and other resources that have cost implications, but once I clean up a Glue job, it does not delete the other accessory resources. Sometimes, I have to go hunting for what resources Amazon AWS might have provisioned and how it is costing behind the scenes. It can be complex depending on your level of expertise. It is not as easy to get started, especially when it comes to secure practices. Amazon AWS is more hands-on than other platforms.
reviewer2855421 - PeerSpot reviewer
Research Engineer at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
Low-friction compute has accelerated my prototyping and supports fast code evaluation runs
I don't have anything else to add about my main use case or how Modal Labs fits into my workflow. I don't want to add anything else about the features. I don't measure my outcomes with Modal Labs, but my experience has been pretty good for use cases where other providers, which usually involve renting out the full VM, is too much of a high-friction option. This being low-friction is valuable. I have no comments regarding Modal Labs's AI capabilities, specifically about its governance and security because I haven't used it in that context. Regarding Modal Labs's AI capabilities, I find its accuracy and reliability of output to be extremely reliable. I don't think there is anything to improve regarding accuracy because it is a provider. I use Modal Labs for experimentation on and off, and I do not properly deploy it. I did not purchase Modal Labs through the AWS Marketplace. I used the free tier. My advice to others looking into using Modal Labs is to try it, as they have thirty dollars of free credits every month. I give Modal Labs an overall rating of eight.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Having a cloud available has been great; it makes things faster and easier and the deployment is pretty quick and very straightforward."
"We switched to the AWS cloud service because our local office server was not performing well and we wanted to provide smooth service from our application to our end-users."
"Our primary use case for Amazon AWS is for disaster recovery."
"We have used Amazon AWS for a very large scale of server deployment, and it has helped us scale quickly and save a lot of money instead of buying those services."
"It's easy to manage. We can use a wide range of technologies with AWS."
"I like the technical support."
"The price forecasting and billing dashboard by service, with billing budgets and alerts, have helped us shut down resources that were accruing costs that we no longer needed, saving us money."
"Some of the introduced one-year and three-year reservations helped us reduce costs early on. With time, we learned how to minimize our at REST capacity, allowing us to scale up and scale down in near seconds."
"Modal Labs has positively impacted my organization and my work because I don't think there is any other provider that lets me attach it as functions, and I think it fits my workflow more naturally."
 

Cons

"Billing for cloud services can be difficult at times."
"The connection between the billing console and the management console is not obvious so shutting down a machine was hard to find initially and resulted in excess billing."
"I would like to receive some alerts when my consumption is getting out of the normal range."
"Setup is somewhat complex."
"On the console, they used to have some shortcuts making this solution easier to work with, but now we have been dealing with so many problems on the console, and some of the options are not very useful in my perspective, so they should bring back those options that make things easier to run some of the services."
"The pricing is something you have to watch. You really have to constantly optimize your costs for instance, storage, IPs and things like that, and that can become a job in itself to manage just from a budgeting standpoint if you are a moderate to heavy user."
"AWS is much too expensive compared to current on-premises solution for this type of work. AWS IaaS is a very generic service, which is extremely overpriced."
"I think Amazon AWS could be improved cost-wise, as the expenses can be considerable."
"Modal Labs could be improved by not charging for the building of containers, as it turns out to be more expensive for certain use cases like mine where I have to try out many different containers."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's paid on a monthly basis and you have to pay for the resources that you use."
"The price can be better."
"Pricing is good. It's average."
"I think they've done a pretty good job with their pricing."
"The price could be better."
"We are currently paying for the solution on an annual basis."
"The price for AWS is good."
"Licensing can be purchased on a yearly basis, which is an auto-renewal. We also have an on-demand on-pay purchase."
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Comparison Review

it_user8586 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Aug 14, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
6%
University
19%
Construction Company
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Educational Organization
10%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business131
Midsize Enterprise48
Large Enterprise120
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