I second that question, and expand it a little. AWS is likely a more secure and trustworthy option given the recent controversy, but it really is comparing apples to oranges; they're both hosting solutions (fruit), but fundamentally very different.

Is there any service close to Linode that provides a similar service for a similar price? I know of DigitalOcean, but their CPUs are very underpowered in each plan compared to Linode's (especially after recent upgrades).