Amazon AWS vs Rackspace Cloud [EOL] comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Rackspace Technology are both solutions in the PaaS Clouds category. Additionally, 93% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Rackspace Technology users who would recommend it.

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93% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon AWS

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

260

Ranking in other categories

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (2nd), PaaS Clouds (2nd)

Rackspace Cloud [EOL]

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Q&A Highlights

Avigail Sugarman

Community Manager at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)

Aug 21, 2014

Rackspace, Dimension Data, and others that were in last year's Challenger quadrant became Niche Players: Agree/ Disagree

Agree. All those are not true cloud player but somewhere in between hosted cloud and true cloud computing.

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Featured Reviews

Asif Meem

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.

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Rajbir Singh

Director - DevOps and Infrastructure at INTIGRAL

There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services

It is very stable. It works 99.9 percent of the time. We are quite happy with it. This product is used to help broadcast football games' live streams, video matches and fantasy games, and it is used extensively. We have almost two million plus downloads, and during peak seasons, we could have 100,000 concurrent users watching 11 different matches.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I am impressed with the solution's EC2 EKS."

"Management of code and assets has become extremely simple."

"The solution offers a low footprint; we don't have to come up with a data center ourselves, we basically don't have to own any hardware, and by just renting a slice of their platform we have everything we need."

"The price point and ease of use are the most valuable features."

"Migrate to AWS for speed and agility, combined with its security features."

"Macie is great; it is a service that makes recommendations on a data layer for cybersecurity, and its elasticity is good, and I haven't come across any problems with it."

"Elasticity has always been AWS's mandate. The flexibility of their platform from a systems perspective lives up to its claims."

"There are many valuable features, I find the EMR in the platform easy to use and to learn."

More Amazon AWS pros

"The new generation of Rackspace Cloud servers are a strong improvement over the first generation."

"It is very stable; it works 99.9 percent of the time, and we are quite happy with it."

"Ability to quickly create reliable virtual servers."

"The tourism business is seasonally based, therefore our infrastructure needs are variable, and this service works perfectly for us."

"There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services."

"Image backup is a valuable feature, and even though this is a common feature, it is very helpful for us."

"The most valuable feature for us is the support, which is really efficient."

Cons

"AWS support could be better. It could be faster and straightforward."

"I would say support is average. A lot of times I would prefer a better turnaround time in terms of the response we're getting, it should be faster."

"A person with no AWS experience might find it overwhelming at first."

"The pricing is expensive"

"There is room for improvement in cost. Everyone complains about AWS being expensive. The initial cost starts small but can skyrocket unexpectedly."

"The solution would be better if it was more secure."

"AWS cloud has an issue with accessibility to the customer, it's very limited and if there's an internal issue, we won't know about it because they don't expose their APIs to many things."

"In a future release, I would like to see more support for AI because it is the future."

More Amazon AWS cons

"It doesn't offer Elastic IP like AWS. And also we can't configure our server based on region."

"It's often difficult to get timely support with a ticket, they seem to live by phone calls there."

"Comparatively, this solution is a bit expensive."

"I had a few instances where techs on off hours made extremely bad decisions, resulting in extended site outages lasting hours."

"It would be nice to have more built-in suites compared to others. It would enable easier integration."

"Vertical scalability is very limited compared with Amazon EC2, which offers many sorts of instances."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The prices are somewhat on the higher side. It would help if they can bring it down, especially for the sporting segment and for on-demand instances."

"Maintain a good budget, plan the consumption"

"The price for AWS is good."

"It is very expensive, you have to be very cautious."

"It's an expensive product."

"AWS IaaS is a very generic service, which is extremely overpriced."

"Looking at the primary market for AWS, I see that there's a lot of customers who have only mid-level performance requirements, because you will have all these normal applications such as online auction websites, gaming applications, voice applications, and so on. These are not, for example, large monitoring applications, financial independents, or brick and mortar companies. So AWS caters to about 40% of the market when it comes to general applications. As it happens, in many cases, you simply don't need the high-performance offerings from AWS, nor the innovative products from Google Cloud Platform, which can come with large price tags."

"Amazon AWS could have more options and transparency in its pricing model. You need in-depth knowledge to adopt AWS. So someone without that knowledge base might not understand all of the costs associated with AWS."

More Amazon AWS pricing and cost advice

"Comparatively, this solution is a bit expensive."

"The service includes licenses (for operating systems, databases, etc.). Asset management is easier with services like that."

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it_user8586

Engineer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Aug 14, 2013

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Answers from the Community

Avigail Sugarman

Community Manager at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)

Aug 21, 2014

Rackspace, Dimension Data, and others that were in last year's Challenger quadrant became Niche Players: Agree/ Disagree

Agree. All those are not true cloud player but somewhere in between hosted cloud and true cloud computing.

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it_user105252

CTO at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

Aug 20, 2014

I completely agree. Cloud Computing vending is a scale business. And unless you have the $$ Billions to invest in DCs, interconnects, CDN capacity, as well as in continually investing in the OS and Management software infrastructure, you cannot be anything but a vendor that caters to a particular narrow segment. Its a bit like telephony. You aren't going to do very well going up against GE/Sprint, ATT or Southwest Telecom. BUT if you are an EarthLink, you can play in then niche space of those who want a "socially responsible" Telco. About a year ago, both Rackspace and Centurylink were looking for "capital partners" for future growth investment precisely because of these issues. I don't think they ever raised enough $$. I have been saying for about 5 years now that there is room for 4-5 major cloud vendors and they were going to be: Amazon, Google, Microsoft. and then fighting for the last 1-2 slots were IBM, salesFORCE.com, EMC and perhaps Oracle. Oracle seems to have opted not to keep fighting, and EMC is now more focused on delivering services. So you basically have IBM leveraging its corporate DC and mainframe hardware consolidation capabilities and Salesforce is leverging its lead in CRM to get apps built on Force.com But pretty much everyone else is a niche player. The Future is Platform As A Service. NOT "vms" and Rackspace and Dimension Data all were hoping to move from VMs to PaaS but that's a hard move to make.

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it_user8685

Infrastructure Expert at Cloud Counselage Inc. (www.cloudcounselage.com)

Aug 20, 2014

DISAGREE. VMware is the present and the Future. Be it VMware vCloud and vSphere suites, tough competition for Amazon etc. or be it vCHS. Also, VMware's very own Public IaaS Cloud; vCHS (VMware vCloud Hybrid Service) which will change everything in days to come vis-a-vis Rackspace, IBM's Softlayer etc. Microsoft is not in a competition at all, because it lacks quality compared to the names mentioned above. __Tushar Topale

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	131
Midsize Enterprise	48
Large Enterprise	120

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	2

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Overview

Amazon AWS offers cloud services known for ease of use, scalability, and diverse services such as EC2, S3, and Lambda. Its pay-as-you-go pricing and robust security features make it a preferred choice for businesses managing growing demands efficiently.

Amazon AWS provides a comprehensive ecosystem with services like EC2 for computing, S3 for storage, and Lambda for serverless computing. It emphasizes scalability and quick resource provisioning, allowing businesses to handle IT workloads, host websites, and manage analytics seamlessly. AWS integrates a wide range of services, enhancing flexibility and reliability while offering robust security and automated management to streamline operations.

What are the most important features of Amazon AWS?

EC2: Offers scalable computing capacity in the cloud to manage business applications efficiently.
S3: Provides highly secure, durable, and scalable cloud storage solutions for data archiving and backup.
Lambda: Enables running code without provisioning or managing servers, improving application deployment.
Pricing: Employs a pay-as-you-go model, allowing cost-effective resource usage.
Security: Implements comprehensive security protocols to ensure data protection across services.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Scalability: Supports business growth by easily scaling resources according to demand.
Integration: Offers seamless integration capabilities with numerous services, enhancing operational flexibility.
Performance: Provides stable and reliable performance for critical IT workloads and applications.
Management: Features automated management tools that reduce overhead and improve deployment efficiency.

Amazon AWS is widely implemented across industries for cloud computing, infrastructure hosting, and data storage. Businesses in finance, healthcare, and technology sectors leverage AWS for running applications, hosting analytics databases, and deploying scalable solutions. By utilizing tools like EC2, S3, and Lambda, they ensure flexibility and security in infrastructure management and data applications, meeting diverse operational needs effectively.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Rackspace is a listed company that specializes in hybrid cloud environments to support your applications and sites. The environments are based on its open-source operating system OpenStack.Rackspace Cloud caters for the private cloud, public cloud, dedicated servers, or a hybrid of platforms.

Your Rackspace Cloud environment is customizable according to your cloud requirements, and all products work together seamlessly from one portal.

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Sample Customers

Pinterest, General Electric, Pfizer, Netflix, and Nasdaq.

3D Capacity, Acquity Group, Axios Systems, Behance, Blastro, Dominos Pizza, and Sage.

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