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We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Container Service and Google Container Engine based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"It's quick and easy to have the solution working.""The solution's technical support is good.""Good documentation and very straightforward to implement and use.""The most valuable feature, after using Amazon EC2 Container Service for two years, is to set the availability and also for network throughput.""Implementing the product has helped me monitor the parameters. I utilize tools like CloudWatch and AWS systems to track these parameters. If any issues arise, I alert our developer team to address and resolve them. The product helps to have a global file system. Also, it helps in data replication from region to region.""The solution has good performance.""It is a highly stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.""Amazon EC2 Container Service has multiple valuable features like load balancers and autoscalers."

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"The tool is very powerful, scalable, and easy to manage. Its autoscaling features helped us save costs."

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Cons
"Support could be better with response time and knowledge of staff.""Amazon EC2 Container Service's security can be improved.""The solution needs to improve backup and pricing.""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.""Billing is extremely complex.""The solution's stability is an area of concern where improvements are required.""The solution can still be expensive, even with per-second billing.""The existing domain-joined capability the solution provides during the initial boot-up of the compute should be streamlined and made a little robust."

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"Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I don't exactly deal with the pricing. We have a separate Infra team that deals with the pricing. They are more into the scalability part. Based on our requirements, the pricing will increase. The automation teams will test some of the benefits to see how can we can optimize the cost. They'll have a security manager connection and some alerts based upon the usage to see how to reduce the building cost based upon the installations."
  • "Our client is paying between $400 and $500 USD per month for this service."
  • "I don't know the exact amount we were charged for our use of ECS, but I do know that it can be costly, especially when there is a bug or an error caused by default configurations."
  • "The tool's licensing is monthly."
  • "The pricing is good."
  • "The solution's cost could be reduced."
  • "On a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price, I rate Amazon EC2 Container Service’s pricing a four or five out of ten."
  • "The platform is inexpensive."
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    Top Answer:Implementing the product has helped me monitor the parameters. I utilize tools like CloudWatch and AWS systems to track these parameters. If any issues arise, I alert our developer team to address and… more »
    Top Answer:The solution must improve backup and compatibility around OS like Windows and Mac.
    Top Answer:The tool is very powerful, scalable, and easy to manage. Its autoscaling features helped us save costs.
    Top Answer:Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products.
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    Also Known As
    Amazon ECS, Amazon EC2 Container Service
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    Overview

    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS. Amazon ECS eliminates the need for you to install and operate your own container orchestration software, manage and scale a cluster of virtual machines, or schedule containers on those virtual machines.

    Google Container Engine is a powerful cluster manager and orchestration system for running your Docker containers. Container Engine schedules your containers into the cluster and manages them automatically based on requirements you define (such as CPU and memory). It's built on the open source Kubernetes system, giving you the flexibility to take advantage of on-premises, hybrid, or public cloud infrastructure.

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    Computer Software Company30%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Recruiting/Hr Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm30%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Small Business52%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise31%
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    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise72%
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    May 2024
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    Amazon Elastic Container Service is ranked 8th in Container Management with 46 reviews while Google Container Engine is ranked 14th in Container Management with 1 review. Amazon Elastic Container Service is rated 8.4, while Google Container 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 Container Engine writes "Has autoscaling features that helps to save costs ". Amazon Elastic Container Service is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, Microsoft Azure Container Service, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Linode and Google Kubernetes Engine, whereas Google Container Engine is most compared with .

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