We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Container Service and Google Container Engine based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware and others in Container Management."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."
"The tool is very powerful, scalable, and easy to manage. Its autoscaling features helped us save costs."
"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."
"Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products."
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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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