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.
"It's a faster solution to adopt on native applications."
"The product helps us to configure the new environment."
"Break down your application into small modules to improve resiliency"
"The tool works well with the nodes in AWS. It's scalability is also good in terms of architecture."
"The most valuable features of Amazon EKS are its auto scaling ability and the ability for service discovery."
"Through Amazon EKS, we can have the blue-green deployment very easily."
"The most valuable feature is the cluster engine."
"It is the best service because it has proper security packages."
"Centralized control of container resources is most valuable."
"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."
"Dashboards... give us all the details we need to see about the microservices."
"Autoscaling is an excellent feature that makes it very simple to scale our applications as required."
"The architecture is the best. The solution is scalable if you are on a container-based solution."
"The software is user-friendly and straightforward to use, which is favorable to a developer."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring and logging functionalities."
"OpenShift is a user-friendly container platform with a solid GUI that helps you follow what is going on and gives you an overview of all your clusters. It's more user-friendly than the Kubernetes itself. The interface helps you learn the platform and provides access to some features or specific comments."
"I am not impressed with the tool's Amazon console. It also needs to add security features."
"I'd like improved traffic handling and additional application details within the system."
"The documentation part of the product is an area of concern that needs to be made easier from an improvement perspective."
"They should include some essential configuration features to it."
"The dashboard needs to be more user-friendly."
"I'm having difficulty getting my AWS clusters to communicate with my local machine."
"A cluster is required on-premises, which takes a lot of time."
"Amazon EKS should improve its integration."
"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."
"The solution needs to introduce open ID connect integration for role-based access control."
"My impression is that this solution is pretty expensive so I think the pricing plan could improve."
"Getting the solution quickly and troubleshooting quickly are both areas where I think it needs some work."
"OpenShift has a pretty steep learning curve. It's not an easy tool to use. It's not only OpenShift but Kubernetes itself. The good thing is that Red Hat provides specific targeted training. There are five or six pieces of training where you can get certifications. The licenses for OpenShift are pretty expensive, so they could be cheaper because the competition isn't sleeping, and Red Hat must take that into account."
"I want to see more incorporation of native automation features; then, we could write a code, deploy it directly to OpenShift, and allow it to take care of the automated process. Using this method, we could write one application and have elements copy/pasted to other applications in the development process."
"OpenShift needs to improve their container storage."
"The solution does not work on a route-wise NFS."
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Amazon EKS is ranked 2nd in Container Management with 39 reviews while Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is ranked 1st in Container Management with 37 reviews. Amazon EKS is rated 8.6, while Red Hat 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 Red Hat 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, Linode, Rancher Labs and Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE, whereas Red Hat 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. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform report.
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