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."Amazon EC2 Container Service has multiple valuable features like load balancers and autoscalers."
"The cloud services are readily available."
"Performance is our top priority. So, if we need to deploy on a high-specification machine, we can choose it from the software. If we just need a low-specification one, we can just choose it based on the requirement handling software configuration."
"Overall, it is a user-friendly and efficient tool for managing containers."
"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 containerization is a valuable feature for us."
"What I really like about Amazon ECS is its simplicity and ease of use. Amazon also has really good security."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service serves the function it's supposed to serve."
"The most valuable feature is its comprehensive support, easy resource scaling, compatibility with various OEMs, and seamless service integration."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an open-source solution that is easy to deploy."
"The scalability potential is very good."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."
"Rancher Labs is a very user-friendly tool."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"Probably, they should include automated graphing, and monitoring solutions."
"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."
"The solution could provide more reliability."
"Visualization is an important factor for me, and I don't think that the visuals within ECS are good enough because it doesn't show you all the details you might need to see at a glance."
"EC2 is not self-explanatory enough."
"For Amazon EC2 Container Service, providing the ability for users to select specific processor, memory, disk, and interface types might be an ideal feature. But, the practicality of offering all possible physical combinations is nearly impossible due to the underlying physical machines. AWS and Azure organize options into groups based on essential components like powerful processors or critical interfaces, considering physical restrictions. While expanding these choices is conceivable, it may not be feasible from a financial and practical perspective. Customers generally comprehend this limitation, as even in their own data centers, exact physical machine requirements are often a result of a combination of factors such as price, availability, and new machine generations."
"After the load balancer gets attached to Amazon Elastic Container Service clusters, I can't modify, remove, or replace it later."
"The solution needs to improve backup and pricing."
"There needs to be an improvement in observability and microservice monitoring tools in Rancher Labs."
"If you have poor infrastructure, you will have issues with the tool."
"I can't migrate to the newer version."
"Could be more intuitive."
"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."
"We'd like their monitoring tool to be integrated by default."
"The biggest room for improvement in Rancher Labs would be to have a proper upgrading plan."
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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 13 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 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, 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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