We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Container Service and Microsoft Azure Container Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Containers as a Service (CaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."ECS is a useful platform."
"The containerization is a valuable feature for us."
"I like Amazon EC2 Container Service's elasticity."
"Good documentation and very straightforward to implement and use."
"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."
"The product's most valuable feature is service discovery functionality. It is an excellent feature impacting cost reduction."
"The solution is easy to scale and implement and provides performance monitoring and management tools."
"We use the product for website and email database hosting."
"It's a great product if you are in a Microsoft environment."
"Microsoft Azure Container Service has a good level of stability."
"The most valuable features are that it is simple, and the compression of the data."
"Storage is one of the most beneficial features of cloud providers, specifically Azure because when you are working in their cloud environment, you can easily use a storage interface and a storage object that is provided by Microsoft Azure. In a local environment, you have to be involved in establishing and setting up distributed storage file systems for containers which are very difficult and complex. In a cloud environment, you are not concerned about the storage and the dashboard provides you with storage objects with high availability."
"Visualization is the most important feature."
"The most valuable feature is that you don't have to maintain the infrastructure."
"The product makes things easier since it's self-managed. Therefore, there is less administration workload and operational costs."
"The solution can still be expensive, even with per-second billing."
"Since it is a managed service for container orchestration, it may limit our control over certain infrastructure functions."
"My company has faced some stability issues with Amazon EC2 Container Service."
"In the next release, they could add some customization options for high computer workloads."
"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."
"It's a complex tool and should be simplified."
"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 solution’s UI should be improved."
"In terms of the container strategy, they need to make it more compliant with the Linux OS."
"Standard support could be more helpful and responsive."
"Since the product is fully managed, it is expensive."
"The customization is an area that needs improvement."
"f Microsoft Azure can provide GUI dashboards for end-users and administrators to work separately to manage all the Kubernetes clusters without a need to connect to Azure environments and through CLI it would be better."
"I wasn't very impressed with the documentation."
"In the future, I would like to see it generalized and have the ability to better integrate with open-source tools."
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Amazon Elastic Container Service is ranked 1st in Containers as a Service (CaaS) with 46 reviews while Microsoft Azure Container Service is ranked 2nd in Containers as a Service (CaaS) with 7 reviews. Amazon Elastic Container Service is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure Container Service is rated 8.2. 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 Microsoft Azure Container Service writes "Reliable, expandable and great for Microsoft-heavy environments". Amazon Elastic Container Service is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Linode and Google Kubernetes Engine, whereas Microsoft Azure Container Service is most compared with . See our Amazon Elastic Container Service vs. Microsoft Azure Container Service report.
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