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At a Glance
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Star Rating
(195)4.2 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (34.3% of reviews)
Information
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
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AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Star Rating
(976)4.6 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (42.6% of reviews)
Information
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk vs AWS Lambda

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

  • Reviewers felt that AWS Lambda meets the needs of their business better than AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
  • When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that AWS Lambda is the preferred option.
  • For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of AWS Lambda over AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
No pricing available
AWS Lambda
No pricing available
Free Trial
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
No trial information available
AWS Lambda
No trial information available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.5
148
9.0
690
Ease of Use
8.5
147
8.6
696
Ease of Setup
8.2
74
8.5
348
Ease of Admin
8.1
68
8.5
279
Quality of Support
8.1
130
8.5
632
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.2
65
8.9
271
Product Direction (% positive)
8.5
143
9.4
641
Features by Category
Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)Hide 13 FeaturesShow 13 Features
8.4
102
8.5
535
Development
8.8
86
8.9
436
8.0
82
8.3
432
8.2
82
8.3
431
8.2
78
8.5
422
8.1
80
7.9
418
Database
8.1
76
8.3
351
7.8
80
8.3
354
8.6
86
9.0
395
8.3
80
8.4
337
8.5
81
8.4
352
Infrastructure
8.5
82
8.6
370
8.7
83
8.4
340
8.8
83
8.8
388
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
AWS Elastic Beanstalk and AWS Lambda are categorized as Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Unique Categories
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk has no unique categories
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda has no unique categories
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
34.3%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
31.4%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
34.3%
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
21.8%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
35.7%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
42.6%
Reviewers' Industry
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Computer Software
23.4%
Information Technology and Services
18.9%
Financial Services
4.6%
Automotive
4.0%
Marketing and Advertising
3.4%
Other
45.7%
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Computer Software
23.0%
Information Technology and Services
19.5%
Financial Services
8.5%
Internet
2.9%
Hospital & Health Care
2.8%
Other
43.2%
Alternatives
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Alternatives
DigitalOcean
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Google App Engine
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Azure App Service
Azure App Service
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AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda Alternatives
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean
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Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
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Google App Engine
Google App Engine
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Salesforce Heroku
Heroku
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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
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
Is AWS Elastic Beanstalk PaaS?
1 Comment
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda Discussions
Is AWS lambda a container?
3 Comments
Gana  N.
GN
AWS Lambda is an event-driven, serverless computing platform provided by Amazon as a part of Amazon Web Services. It is a computing service that runs code in...Read more
What is AWS Lambda used for?
2 Comments
Vishwa R.
VR
It is used to deply applications. It provides serverless environment which means you only pay the cost for the cost or duration for which the application had...Read more
What is AWS Lambda good for?
2 Comments
Sai Nikhil Reddy K.
SK
Using AWS Lambda, we can schedule jobs of required scripts on regular interval to run, which is directly indicates to automationRead more