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."The most valuable feature, after using Amazon EC2 Container Service for two years, is to set the availability and also for network throughput."
"The production environment is highly available, which nowadays is a requirement for all of the big companies."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"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."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service is more stable."
"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."
"In seven years, we have not faced a single second of downtime."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its scalability."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an open-source solution that is easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature is its comprehensive support, easy resource scaling, compatibility with various OEMs, and seamless service integration."
"The most valuable feature of Rancher Labs is its user interface, which makes it easier to work with containers and deployment."
"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."
"The scalability potential is very good."
"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 tool's UI is very convenient enough to help you manage multiple clusters in the cloud or the company, making it a product with which you can manage different clusters and locations."
"It's a complex tool and should be simplified."
"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."
"The solution's stability is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"My company has faced some stability issues with Amazon EC2 Container Service."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service should simplify its management. It can be difficult for someone who doesn't have much experience with the tool. Also, the tool needs to add the ability to manage networks."
"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."
"The orchestration of the workloads running in ECS needs improvement."
"I can't migrate to the newer version."
"The biggest room for improvement in Rancher Labs would be to have a proper upgrading plan."
"We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated."
"If you have poor infrastructure, you will have issues with the tool."
"The solution could improve by adding more features in the dashboard, such as monitoring, scanning, and security. This would be a great benefit."
"One area for improvement in Rancher Labs is the development aspect."
"They should improve application visibility along with code visibility."
"We'd like their monitoring tool to be integrated by default."
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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, Linode and Google Kubernetes Engine, 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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