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We performed a comparison between Amazon EKS and Rancher Labs based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Container Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Amazon EKS vs. Rancher Labs Report (Updated: May 2024).
772,649 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"The solution's Autoscaler option allows for an increase in worker notes whenever particular thresholds are exceeded.""It has always helped me. It is the repository where we store our images...The microservices appear to be well-made, and I don't have any comments on them as I don't see any flaws.""The product's most valuable features are scalability, observability, and performance.""Amazon EKS is very scalable.""Through Amazon EKS, we can have the blue-green deployment very easily.""The tool works well with the nodes in AWS. It's scalability is also good in terms of architecture.""Amazon EKS is like Kubernetes, but it helps manage our nodes and scalability in AWS.""It has valuable monitoring and insights features."

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"The product is simple to use for a beginner.""The tool's UI is very convenient enough to help you manage multiple clusters in the cloud or the company, making it a product with which you can manage different clusters and locations.""The most valuable feature is its comprehensive support, easy resource scaling, compatibility with various OEMs, and seamless service integration.""The most valuable feature of Rancher Labs is its user interface, which makes it easier to work with containers and deployment.""The scalability potential is very good.""This solution is not vendor-locked, which means that we we are able to use it across all of our resources; this feature is of great value to us.""The solution has a lot of good features, such as you can access the console and edit through the GUI. The dashboard and the UI are designed well, user-friendly, and easy to manage, and access.""The customized deployment process is the most valuable feature in Rancher Labs."

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Cons
"They should include some essential configuration features to it.""Amazon EKS's vulnerability management of data could be improved.""The product’s pricing needs improvement.""I would like to see the user interface improved because it is hard to find and not straightforward.""An area for improvement in Amazon EKS is the user experience. The platform could be more user-friendly. Only an expert can manage and use it.""A cluster is required on-premises, which takes a lot of time.""I'm having difficulty getting my AWS clusters to communicate with my local machine.""I encountered problems with the product’s documentation."

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"We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated.""The biggest room for improvement in Rancher Labs would be to have a proper upgrading plan.""While Rancher Labs provides some level of security, it's not considered very robust.""The solution could improve by adding more features in the dashboard, such as monitoring, scanning, and security. This would be a great benefit.""They should improve application visibility along with code visibility.""One area for improvement in Rancher Labs is the development aspect.""If you have poor infrastructure, you will have issues with the tool.""There needs to be an improvement in observability and microservice monitoring tools in Rancher Labs."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The solution is more expensive than other competitors and does not require a license."
  • "Cloud based pay-as-you-go pricing"
  • "My company paid for the license."
  • "Pricing is dependent upon instance type."
  • "The solution is quite costly and developers will start exploring other solutions or moving their workloads to other clouds if costs aren't reduced."
  • "The price could be cheaper. I would rate it as seven out of ten."
  • "Amazon EKS has fair pricing. It's better in terms of pricing than other platforms."
  • "I would like a cheaper version of it."
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  • "There is an annual subscription. The price of the solution should be cheaper and have better pricing flexibility."
  • "The solution is free and open source but there is a fee for support."
  • "This is an open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs involved."
  • "Although Rancher Labs is an open-source solution, they also offer a paid version, where you buy the support when needed."
  • "The pricing of the solution sits in the mid range, not high and not low. It has a fixed price that you pay every month."
  • "There are no hidden charges attached to the product unless a user opts for the premium support offered by the solution."
  • "The cost is reasonable since it's open source. Rancher effectively addresses container orchestration trends, especially for those with some Kubernetes knowledge."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product's most valuable features are scalability, observability, and performance.
    Top Answer:The product pricing depends on the specific requirements. For instance, clients between $3000-$4000 per month might find the pricing reasonable, with clusters priced around $70 to $80 plus additional… more »
    Top Answer:The main thing to improve with Amazon EKS is the price. However, these services can be very expensive. For example, in countries like Turkey, the cost is too high. That's why we offer our cloud… more »
    Top Answer:The tool's UI is very convenient enough to help you manage multiple clusters in the cloud or the company, making it a product with which you can manage different clusters and locations.
    Top Answer:There are no hidden charges attached to the product unless a user opts for the premium support offered by the solution.
    Top Answer:Rancher Labs is currently investing in Harvester, as it is an area where improvements are required. I think that in the future, it would be a very powerful tool to compete with giant competitors like… more »
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    Also Known As
    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
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    Overview

    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a fully managed Kubernetes service. Customers such as Intel, Snap, Intuit, GoDaddy, and Autodesk trust EKS to run their most sensitive and mission critical applications because of its security, reliability, and scalability.

    EKS is the best place to run Kubernetes for several reasons. First, you can choose to run your EKS clusters using AWS Fargate, which is serverless compute for containers. Fargate removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you specify and pay for resources per application, and improves security through application isolation by design. Second, EKS is deeply integrated with services such as Amazon CloudWatch, Auto Scaling Groups, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), providing you a seamless experience to monitor, scale, and load-balance your applications. Third, EKS integrates with AWS App Mesh and provides a Kubernetes native experience to consume service mesh features and bring rich observability, traffic controls and security features to applications. Additionally, EKS provides a scalable and highly-available control plane that runs across multiple availability zones to eliminate a single point of failure.
    EKS runs upstream Kubernetes and is certified Kubernetes conformant so you can leverage all benefits of open source tooling from the community. You can also easily migrate any standard Kubernetes application to EKS without needing to refactor your code.

    Rancher Labs build innovative, open source software that makes it easy to deploy and manage containers in production on any infrastructure. We enable organizations to accelerate all aspects of their software development pipeline, from writing and testing code to running complex microservices-based applications.

    Rancher, our flagship container management platform, allows users to easily manage all aspects of running containers in development and production environments, on any infrastructure. With well over four million downloads, Rancher has quickly become the tools of choice for teams serious about running containers in production. This includes large enterprises such as Sony, IBM, Tyco, Align Technologies and more.

    Sample Customers
    GoDaddy, Pearson, FICO, Intuit, Verizon, Honeywell, Logicworks, RetailMeNot, LogMeIn, Conde Nast, mercari, Trainline, Axway
    Albert Heijn, Bell, BMC, Samsung, WindStream, Johnson & Johnson
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company32%
    Financial Services Firm21%
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    Manufacturing Company11%
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    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Insurance Company7%
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    Financial Services Firm43%
    Pharma/Biotech Company14%
    Comms Service Provider14%
    Manufacturing Company14%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Company Size
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    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise43%
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    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise73%
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    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
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    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise67%
    Buyer's Guide
    Amazon EKS vs. Rancher Labs
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon EKS vs. Rancher Labs and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
    772,649 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Amazon EKS is ranked 2nd in Container Management with 39 reviews while Rancher Labs is ranked 5th in Container Management with 14 reviews. Amazon EKS is rated 8.6, while Rancher Labs is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon EKS writes "Supports multiple tools and has a straightforward setup process ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rancher Labs writes "An easy-to-use user interface, which makes it easy to work with Kubernetes and containers". Amazon EKS is most compared with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Kubernetes, Linode and Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE, whereas Rancher Labs is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Docker, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE and Google Kubernetes Engine. See our Amazon EKS vs. Rancher Labs report.

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