We compared Amazon EKS and OpenShift Container Platform based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Amazon EKS is praised for its strong integration with AWS services, seamless scaling, security measures, and simple Kubernetes cluster management. Users appreciate the reliable and flexible application deployment. On the other hand, OpenShift Container Platform is recognized for its seamless system integration, resource management, security measures, and application scalability. Both platforms offer competitive pricing and flexible licensing, excellent customer support, and positive ROI. Areas for improvement in Amazon EKS include documentation and cost optimization, while OpenShift could enhance its user interface, system performance, resource management, and language support.
Features: Some valuable features of Amazon EKS include seamless integration with AWS services, efficient scaling capabilities, user-friendly interface, strong security measures, excellent customer support, and simplified management. On the other hand, OpenShift Container Platform stands out for its seamless integration with existing systems, efficient resource management, robust security measures, versatile customization options, and ease of scaling applications.
Pricing and ROI: Amazon EKS has positive feedback on its pricing, setup cost, and licensing. Users appreciate competitive pricing, easy setup, and no significant costs. OpenShift Container Platform also receives positive feedback on reasonable pricing, straightforward setup, and flexible licensing., Compared to OpenShift Container Platform, Amazon EKS users have reported increased efficiency, cost savings, valuable resource optimization, and seamless deployment. OpenShift Container Platform users have praised its improvements in resource utilization, scalability, efficiency, and cost savings, resulting in increased productivity and revenue growth. Both platforms optimize operations and enhance business performance.
Room for Improvement: Amazon EKS could improve its documentation and tutorials, as well as enhance scalability and optimize costs. OpenShift Container Platform should focus on UI enhancements, system performance improvements, resource management, and supporting more programming languages.
Deployment and customer support: According to user reviews, the duration required for setting up and implementing a new tech solution in Amazon EKS is mentioned as a week for both deployment and setup phases. On the other hand, OpenShift Container Platform shows a significant variation in time, ranging from three months for deployment and an additional week for setup, to just a week for both deployment and setup. Context is important to consider., Amazon EKS excels in customer service with prompt and helpful assistance, excellent communication, and efficient problem-solving. OpenShift Container Platform also receives positive feedback, with promptness, responsiveness, and effective solutions.
The summary above is based on 62 interviews we conducted recently with Amazon EKS and OpenShift Container Platform users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Provides high performance and easy manageability."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that it is very user-friendly."
"Amazon EKS is like Kubernetes, but it helps manage our nodes and scalability in AWS."
"It's a faster solution to adopt on native applications."
"We do not have to do a lot of administration, such as create virtual machines, or worry about our controllers or nodes going down because the solution is fully managed by Amazon."
"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 tool works well with the nodes in AWS. It's scalability is also good in terms of architecture."
"The solution's security throughout the stack and the software supply chain is very reliable. When it was on-prem, it was by default secured by our company firewalls and security tools, and now it's in the cloud, which has its security and systems in place. This provides stability to our infrastructure."
"It’s user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature for me in the OpenShift Container Platform is the option to manage different containers and environments and also being able to switch among them."
"The console or the GUI of OpenShift is awesome. You can do a lot of things from there. You can perform administration tasks as well as development tasks."
"The banking transactions, inquiries, and account opening have been the most valuable."
"It is very lightweight and can be deployed very fast, especially when it comes to containers."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its scalability on demand, which allows for potentially lower costs, and Built-in resiliency."
"The operating system has a live update and is more secure than any other. It's made for Atomic OS, a lightweight OS new to the market. I also like the source-to-image capabilities. The customer can directly deploy their applications from the repository. It's a highly flexible and easy way to deploy into production."
"The product’s pricing needs improvement."
"The tool's setup is complex."
"Amazon EKS's vulnerability management of data could be improved."
"They should enhance the Jira integration."
"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 solutions locally. We developed hybrid solutions, but their prices are still very high."
"The management of the nodes in Amazon EKS should be improved."
"The connectivity could be better."
"They could add logging features. At present, we use external tools to increase and decrease the number of instances."
"We encounter difficulties while accessing the environment and managing the cluster. This particular area needs improvement."
"The complexity of the installation could be reduced. While we got the necessary support, the instructions could be clearer."
"Things are there and the documentation is there, however, there still needs to be quick guides available."
"Whenever we onboard or deploy services that talk to Oracle Database, they take a lot of time to become active and serve the incoming request, so it would be good to see some improvement here. This could be an OpenShift issue or an internal network problem within our organization."
"OpenShift needs to improve their container storage."
"The solution does not work on a route-wise NFS."
"Getting the solution quickly and troubleshooting quickly are both areas where I think it needs some work."
"OpenShift has certain restrictions in terms of managing the cluster when it's running on a public cloud. For example, identity and access management integration with the IM of AWS is quite difficult. It requires some open-source tools to integrate. This is one area where I always see room for improvement."
Amazon EKS is ranked 2nd in Container Management with 39 reviews while OpenShift Container Platform is ranked 1st in Container Management with 36 reviews. Amazon EKS is rated 8.6, while OpenShift Container Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon EKS writes "Supports multiple tools and has a straightforward setup process ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenShift Container Platform writes "Provides automation that speeds up our process by 30% and helps us achieve zero downtime". Amazon EKS is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Kubernetes, Rancher Labs, Linode and HashiCorp Nomad, whereas OpenShift Container Platform is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE, Amazon Elastic Container Service, Rancher Labs and Kubernetes. See our Amazon EKS vs. OpenShift Container Platform report.
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