We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Container Service 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."The solution is easy to scale and implement and provides performance monitoring and management tools."
"Overall, it is a user-friendly and efficient tool for managing containers."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service is a stable solution."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"It has an Auto Scaling group feature. We can use this feature to have an Auto Scaling group to specify a minimum and maximum count for all types of configurations. Based on the specified values, Amazon Elastic Container Service scales the required CPU environmental metrics."
"The most valuable feature is the volume size they offer."
"The cloud services are readily available."
"Amazon ECS allows users to deploy and manage container applications like microservices or web applications on Amazon clusters. It's easy to install and designed for AWS targets, serving as a serverless container platform. It offers features such as automatic scanning, load balancing, and service discovery to help users manage their container applications."
"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 scalability potential is very good."
"The most valuable feature is its comprehensive support, easy resource scaling, compatibility with various OEMs, and seamless service integration."
"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."
"Rancher Labs is a very user-friendly tool."
"The most valuable feature of Rancher Labs is its user interface, which makes it easier to work with containers and deployment."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an open-source solution that is easy to deploy."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service's security can be improved."
"We noticed a problem where our container doesn't always run, and the traffic in our secured license exceeds 100%, leading to increased container costs. We are working to understand and reduce this traffic to control costs."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service’s initial setup is a bit difficult."
"Probably, they should include automated graphing, and monitoring solutions."
"It's a complex tool and should be simplified."
"The documentation and usage for the users can be better because for new users it can be very hard to understand and use the solution. They can add small images and accessories."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service needs to improve the menu design. It needs to improve deployment with better documentation."
"In the next release, they could add some customization options for high computer workloads."
"Could be more intuitive."
"One area for improvement in Rancher Labs is the development aspect."
"I can't migrate to the newer version."
"The biggest room for improvement in Rancher Labs would be to have a proper upgrading plan."
"We have found that the auto-secure feature of this solution doesn't always work, and could be improved to be more reliable, particularly when working with business critical applications."
"They should improve application visibility along with code visibility."
"There needs to be an improvement in observability and microservice monitoring tools in Rancher Labs."
"We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated."
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Amazon Elastic Container Service is ranked 8th in Container Management with 46 reviews while Rancher Labs is ranked 5th in Container Management with 14 reviews. Amazon Elastic Container Service is rated 8.4, while Rancher Labs is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon Elastic Container Service writes "An easy to compute solution that can be used to take complete workloads to the cloud". 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 Elastic Container Service is most compared with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Microsoft Azure Container Service, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Google Kubernetes Engine and Linode, whereas Rancher Labs is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Docker, Amazon EKS and Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE. See our Amazon Elastic Container Service vs. Rancher Labs report.
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