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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
"The product's most valuable feature is service discovery functionality. It is an excellent feature impacting cost reduction.""I like the per-second billing.""The solution has good performance.""The most valuable feature, after using Amazon EC2 Container Service for two years, is to set the availability and also for network throughput.""The solution is simple to access.""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.""ECS is flexible and easy to use.""The production environment is highly available, which nowadays is a requirement for all of the big companies."

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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
"The solution’s UI should be improved.""Amazon EC2 Container Service needs to improve the menu design. It needs to improve deployment with better documentation.""I also believe there are limitations in terms of upgrading. The software has the concept of dedicated servers that you can manage. However, an issue arises when you can't match one operating system with another that you've already purchased. You can't simply merge them; instead, you have to buy a completely new one. This limitation has caused some challenges for us.""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 solution's stability is an area of concern where improvements are required.""EC2 is not self-explanatory enough.""Amazon Elastic Container Service’s initial setup is a bit difficult.""The solution must improve backup and compatibility around OS like Windows and Mac."

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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: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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    Ubisoft, GoPro, TIBCO, Remind
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    Computer Software Company30%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Recruiting/Hr Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm30%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Small Business52%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise31%
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    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise73%
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    March 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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