We performed a comparison between AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) and Docker based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Development Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) are its speed and ease of deployment."
"The setup process is very straightforward."
"AWS CDK has notably streamlined the deployment process compared to other methods, primarily by defining cloud infrastructure as code."
"You can use AWS CDK to write code to provision infrastructure."
"Docker's containerization property is its main selling point."
"I think the best feature is to replicate anything in our local machine using a simple command."
"I think that with Docker, it is easy to deploy it on different platforms."
"The solution is easy to deploy for clients so it saves a lot of hassle."
"The initial setup was easy, and you are only required to run commands."
"I am impressed with the product's independence. We can also deploy it anywhere."
"When used in conjunction with Kubernetes, it is seamless because it integrates very well."
"We find the auto scaling and auto healing functionality of this solution very good."
"They could allow combining multiple languages, such as JavaScript and Python for the platform. At present, we can use only one language."
"The primary issue we've encountered is pricing. Some customers find the pricing to be somewhat high. Additionally, there's a discrepancy between the promised resource utilization and the actual utilization. The resource utilization calculations don't align with the provided guidelines. So, the pricing and resource utilization calculations could be refined."
"Using AWS CDK requires some knowledge of popular programming languages."
"There are some issues with different plugins."
"We would like to see improvement in adding the node into the Docker Swarm cluster, as at present it is a little tricky and requires a lot of manual steps."
"Unfortunately, base images are not currently available."
"Docker could improve by having security vulnerability reports."
"The volumes for persistent storage could be more user friendly right out of the box."
"I think Docker can improve as it relates to overall stability."
"Management can be improved with the necessary tools for orchestration."
"One item that could be improved is the overall stability of Docker."
"Docker could improve by providing the ability to use the GPU for parallel processing. If there was the capability of using the GPU it would improve the machine learning that I want to use."
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AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is ranked 4th in Development Platforms with 4 reviews while Docker is ranked 2nd in Development Platforms with 40 reviews. AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is rated 8.0, while Docker is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) writes "Allows us to streamline the deployment process, but the documentation for technical support needs improvement ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Docker writes "Easy to deploy with an impressive networking feature". AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is most compared with , whereas Docker is most compared with Mirantis Container Runtime, Rancher Labs, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE and Codespaces. See our AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) vs. Docker report.
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