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At a Glance
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Star Rating
(265)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (34.9% of reviews)
Information
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
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AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate
Star Rating
(121)4.5 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (36.2% of reviews)
Information
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
Learn more about AWS Fargate

AWS Elastic Beanstalk vs AWS Fargate

When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found AWS Fargate easier to use, set up, and administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with AWS Fargate overall.

  • Reviewers felt that AWS Fargate meets the needs of their business better than AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
  • When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that AWS Elastic Beanstalk is the preferred option.
  • For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of AWS Fargate over AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
No pricing available
AWS Fargate
No pricing available
Free Trial
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
No trial information available
AWS Fargate
No trial information available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.8
206
9.0
93
Ease of Use
8.6
207
8.9
94
Ease of Setup
8.3
110
8.6
49
Ease of Admin
8.3
104
8.7
44
Quality of Support
8.3
190
8.2
91
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.4
101
8.9
46
Product Direction (% positive)
8.7
195
8.9
86
Features by Category
Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)Hide 13 FeaturesShow 13 Features
8.3
1,030
Not enough data
Development
8.8
83
Not enough data
8.0
79
Not enough data
8.2
79
Not enough data
8.3
75
Not enough data
8.1
77
Not enough data
Database
8.1
75
Not enough data
7.7
78
Not enough data
8.6
84
Not enough data
8.2
78
Not enough data
8.5
78
Not enough data
Infrastructure
8.5
81
Not enough data
8.7
82
Not enough data
8.7
81
Not enough data
Not enough data
8.6
466
Management
Not enough data
8.7
52
Not enough data
8.6
50
Not enough data
8.3
45
Organization
Not enough data
8.4
49
Not enough data
8.5
45
Not enough data
8.6
43
Development
Not enough data
8.4
44
Not enough data
8.6
46
Not enough data
8.6
45
Not enough data
8.9
47
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate
AWS Elastic Beanstalk and AWS Fargate share no categories
Unique Categories
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is categorized as Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)
AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate is categorized as Container Management
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
34.4%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
30.7%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
34.9%
AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
31.0%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
36.2%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
32.8%
Reviewers' Industry
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Information Technology and Services
24.1%
Computer Software
22.8%
Financial Services
5.4%
Computer & Network Security
3.7%
Automotive
2.9%
Other
41.1%
AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate
Computer Software
26.7%
Information Technology and Services
23.3%
Financial Services
6.0%
Retail
3.4%
Computer & Network Security
3.4%
Other
37.1%
Most Helpful Reviews
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Curtis R.
CR
Curtis R.
Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Honestly, the best part of Elastic Beanstalk, aside from the language support, is the simplicity it offers my development teams in spinning up applications both for POC and production work loads. Once we setup the VPC's for the apps, its DEAD simple to...

Most Helpful Critical Review
Verified User in Consumer Services
GC
Verified User in Consumer Services

Deployments at scale. The "swap URLs" method of blue-green deployment didn't work very well for us. We served relatively few clients, but at a high volume. Much of our client traffic was going through a load balancer that cached the ELB IPs indefinitely....

AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate
Most Helpful Favorable Review
DM
dinesh m.
Verified User in Information Technology and Services

i have been using AWS Fargate for 1 year , it's a launch type within existing ECS(Elastic Container Service) , before introducing it most customer were running their application on AWS EC2 only , and that was really hard to configure and as a cloud...

Most Helpful Critical Review
Verified User
G
Verified User in Computer Software

The pricing of fargate is the only thing as of now that is in my dislike part.

Alternatives
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Alternatives
DigitalOcean
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Google App Engine
Google App Engine
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Azure App Service
Azure App Service
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Azure Web Apps
Azure Web Apps
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AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate Alternatives
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Kubernetes Engine
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Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
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Rancher
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Discussions
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Discussions
Any late 2019 updates you wanna add? Did they got better on the stack upgrade communication? Any ne
4 comments
Suvarna V.
SV
This is very helpful especially for beginners who are looking towards learning about the stack in depth. Keep sharing more information like this, Thanks...Read more
What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk used for?
1 comment
Ashutosh S.
AS
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is used for deploying and scaling web applications within minutes.Read more
Should you use Elastic Beanstalk?
1 comment
Shubham K.
SK
Definitely. This way, you only have to worry about your application and data, and nothing else.Read more
AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate Discussions
What exactly is AWS fargate?
1 comment
☁️Jitendra L.
☁L
AWS Fargate is a serverless, pay-as-you-go compute engine that lets you focus on building applications without managing servers. AWS Fargate is compatible...Read more
Monty the Mongoose crying
AWS Fargate has no more discussions with answers