We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Container Service and Google Kubernetes Engine 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.
"What I really like about Amazon ECS is its simplicity and ease of use. Amazon also has really good security."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service is more stable."
"The solution has good performance."
"The solution is simple to access."
"I like the per-second billing."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its scalability."
"The production environment is highly available, which nowadays is a requirement for all of the big companies."
"The product's most valuable feature is service discovery functionality. It is an excellent feature impacting cost reduction."
"GKE's plugin management and configuration sync are excellent features. The amount of data it provides is good, and I've been able to integrate it with the things I need."
"The main advantage of GKE is that it is a managed service. This means that Google is responsible for managing the master node in the Kubernetes cluster system. As a result, we can focus on deploying applications to the slaves, while Google handles any updates and security patches. The fact that GKE is fully integrated into the Google ecosystem, including solutions such as BigQuery and VertexAI. This makes it easier for us to integrate these tools into our process. This integration ultimately speeds up our time to market and reduces the time and effort spent on managing infrastructure. The managed aspect of GKE allows us to simply deploy and utilize it without having to worry about the technicalities of infrastructure management."
"The feature that I like the most is the ease of use as compared to AWS. Its ease of use is very high, and I can quickly deploy clusters with a simple template."
"The most valuable feature of Google Kubernetes Engine is how you can automatically scale and load balance."
"The solution is more user-friendly than AWS or Azure. I can also easily scale out the service in the future when the number of customers grows. GKE is the leader of Kubernetes service and it can be easily updated. I love the tool's user interfaces."
"I am impressed with the product's output scaling."
"The logs are important for detecting problems in our clusters."
"On the tip of a command, you can scale in or scale out, and it offers every robust platform to implement DevOps processes for your automation solutions. The product fully supports the IaC concept."
"Since it is a managed service for container orchestration, it may limit our control over certain infrastructure functions."
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"The solution is expensive compared to other alternatives like Azure."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service should include more enterprise project management features, typically available in an OpenShift environment."
"The product can become expensive if you don't choose what you want."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service should simplify its management. It can be difficult for someone who doesn't have much experience with the tool. Also, the tool needs to add the ability to manage networks."
"Billing is extremely complex."
"EC2 is not self-explanatory enough."
"Their documentation is a little here and there. Sometimes, the information is not clear or updated. Their documentation should be a little bit better."
"I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten."
"I would like to see the ability to create multiple notebook configurations."
"The product could be cheaper."
"The notifications are not informative."
"While the GKE cluster is secure, application-level security is an essential aspect that needs to be addressed. The security provided by GKE includes the security of communication between nodes within the cluster and the basic features of Kubernetes security. However, these features may not be sufficient for the security needs of an enterprise. Additional security measures must be added to ensure adequate protection. It has become a common practice to deploy security tools within a Kubernetes cluster. It would be ideal if these tools were included as part of the package, as this is a standard requirement in the industry. Thus, application-level security should be integrated into GKE for improved security measures."
"There is room for improvement in the cluster updates process. Specifically, when managing both non-production and production clusters, we need a sequential functionality."
"It needs to support load balancing."
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Amazon Elastic Container Service is ranked 8th in Container Management with 46 reviews while Google Kubernetes Engine is ranked 9th in Container Management with 32 reviews. Amazon Elastic Container Service is rated 8.4, while Google Kubernetes Engine is rated 8.0. 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 Google Kubernetes Engine writes "The auto-scaling feature helps during peak hours, but the support is not great". Amazon Elastic Container Service is most compared with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Microsoft Azure Container Service, VMware Tanzu Mission Control and Linode, whereas Google Kubernetes Engine is most compared with Linode, Kubernetes, Rancher Labs, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Trend Micro Deep Security. See our Amazon Elastic Container Service vs. Google Kubernetes Engine report.
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