Apples to oranges. AWS's main appeal isn't VMs (EC2), it's the huge portfolio of other services you can make use of. Linode is more of a VM host with a few als

Apples to oranges. AWS's main appeal isn't VMs (EC2), it's the huge portfolio of other services you can make use of. Linode is more of a VM host with a few also-ran services that they are experimenting with (Load Balancing). If all you need is somewhere to host a cheap VM, go Linode. If you want to make use of a larger collection of services (that you don't have to maintain) to build applications on, AWS may be worth a look.