We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Container Service and Google Kubernetes Engine 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."What I really like about Amazon ECS is its simplicity and ease of use. Amazon also has really good security."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service is a stable solution."
"I like the tool's availability and automated scalability. I need to define the port numbers, and when I have a large load of requests, I can get automated scalability."
"The solution is simple to access."
"The cloud services are readily available."
"In seven years, we have not faced a single second of downtime."
"I like Amazon EC2 Container Service's elasticity."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service has multiple valuable features like load balancers and autoscalers."
"The initial setup is very easy. We can create our cluster using the command line, or using our console."
"Stability-wise, this solution is really good."
"The product has no downtime."
"GKE's plugin management and configuration sync are excellent features. The amount of data it provides is good, and I've been able to integrate it with the things I need."
"The deployment of the cluster is very easy."
"The solution simplified deployment, making it more automated. Previously, Docker required manual configuration, often done by developers on their computers. However, with Google Kubernetes Engine, automation extends to configuration, deployment, scalability, and viability, primarily originating from Docker rather than Kubernetes. Its most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) takes care of managing Kubernetes, including the main control plane. It also offers solutions for monitoring resources and handling external traffic, which is essential for us. Being a cloud-native solution, it relieves us from worrying about these operational aspects."
"The product’s dashboard is very intuitive."
"Since it is a managed service for container orchestration, it may limit our control over certain infrastructure functions."
"The solution needs to improve backup and pricing."
"They could provide easier options for third-party integrations similar to internal AWS services."
"Sometimes, the instances fail under the ECS container cluster, and we have to manually go and find out the black sheep in the ECS container instance. We had an issue earlier where one of the instances under the ECS container cluster went down, and we were not able to identify that instance. The instance got terminated, but a new instance did not come up. Therefore, I had to manually get that instance up. It could be optimized better. In production, we normally cannot sustain such things. It can be optimized in terms of instances, durability, and serving the requests of customers."
"The orchestration of the workloads running in ECS needs improvement."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service's security can be improved."
"I would like the product to improve integration with different platforms."
"It's a complex tool and should be simplified."
"Our critique is that we have to do too much work to get the cluster production-ready."
"The user interface is a bit confusing sometimes. You need to navigate between the various consoles we have. It's hard to figure out where things are. It's frustrating. The documentation could be a bit better."
"The tool's configuration features need improvement."
"We would like to see some improvement in the ease of integration with this solution."
"Google Kubernetes Engine is less stable in some highly complex deployments with many nodes."
"Their documentation is a little here and there. Sometimes, the information is not clear or updated. Their documentation should be a little bit better."
"I would like the solution to integrate with another Kubernetes product. I would also like it to monitor other platforms. It needs to also include scale-up container in the tool's next release."
"It needs to support load balancing."
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Amazon Elastic Container Service is ranked 8th in Container Management with 46 reviews while Google Kubernetes Engine is ranked 9th in Container Management with 32 reviews. Amazon Elastic Container Service is rated 8.4, while Google Kubernetes 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 Kubernetes Engine writes "The auto-scaling feature helps during peak hours, but the support is not great". Amazon Elastic Container Service is most compared with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Microsoft Azure Container Service, VMware Tanzu Mission Control and Linode, whereas Google Kubernetes Engine is most compared with Linode, Kubernetes, Rancher Labs, VMware Tanzu Mission Control and Trend Micro Deep Security. See our Amazon Elastic Container Service vs. Google Kubernetes Engine report.
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