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.
"The solution is easy-to-set up."
"It has valuable monitoring and insights features."
"The stability is excellent."
"It's the best option for medium or large enterprises."
"AWS cloud services are flexible and have thorough documentation. AWS also has data centers all over the world."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"It is the best service because it has proper security packages."
"Initial setup is straightforward. It only takes 15 minutes to deploy."
"The initial setup process is easy."
"The stack in the software supply chain is one of the main reasons that we use OpenShift. When I came to this company, we bought hardware from IBM named Bluemix, and they used ICP, which stands for IBM Cloud Private."
"The product is stable, reliable, and easy to use, from a well-known company, has a large volume handling capacity, and more and more organizations are moving to OpenShift."
"Autoscaling is an excellent feature that makes it very simple to scale our applications as required."
"It is very lightweight and can be deployed very fast, especially when it comes to containers."
"Technical support is good; they are fast and reliable."
"The best feature is the management for the port life cycle, which automatically recycles, pulls, and scales up and down based on needs and requests."
"Openshift is a very developer-friendly product."
"I am not impressed with the tool's Amazon console. It also needs to add security features."
"The goal and idea behind microservices are to always be available and capable of handling any load, no matter how many requests come through...All of these services are great, but I also think it would be useful to have the same technology available in a miniature resource size, enabling the same applications and services to run on a small machine."
"The solution could be improved by adding monitoring, filtering, and logging capabilities to its current CloudWatch features."
"They should include some essential configuration features to it."
"Amazon EKS is not a solution that can be fully managed through automation, making it an area of concern where improvement is required."
"I'd like improved traffic handling and additional application details within the system."
"They should enhance the Jira integration."
"They need to work on the Amazon plugins on the Kubernetes cluster."
"The solution does not work on a route-wise NFS."
"Things are there and the documentation is there, however, there still needs to be quick guides available."
"It is difficult to deploy the OpenShift cluster in a bare-metal environment."
"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."
"The setup process is not great."
"The UI could be more user-friendly to drive tasks more effectively through the interface."
"The initial setup can be hard."
"The complexity of the installation could be reduced. While we got the necessary support, the instructions could be clearer."
Amazon EKS is ranked 2nd in Container Management with 38 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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