We performed a comparison between Amazon EKS and Amazon Elastic Container Service 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."EKS has security features that you can't find in competing solutions."
"We do not have to do a lot of administration, such as create virtual machines, or worry about our controllers or nodes going down because the solution is fully managed by Amazon."
"Break down your application into small modules to improve resiliency"
"It's the best option for medium or large enterprises."
"The product's most valuable features are scalability, observability, and performance."
"The solution is easy-to-set up."
"I like its auto-scale feature very much."
"The most important aspect of Amazon EKS is that it is easy to set up and very easy to upgrade."
"They handle the backup process quite well. They automatically encapsulate it, including container backups, without relying heavily on the client's involvement. This is a significant advantage compared to other providers where clients often need to manage the process more independently. It's a feature that I find suitable and beneficial."
"ECS is flexible and easy to use."
"For me, the best feature of ECS is Fargate because I don't have to manage anything. Instead, everything is managed by AWS and all I have to do, in essence, is configure my containers and deploy them."
"The product's initial setup was very straightforward and not complex."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service serves the function it's supposed to serve."
"It has an Auto Scaling group feature. We can use this feature to have an Auto Scaling group to specify a minimum and maximum count for all types of configurations. Based on the specified values, Amazon Elastic Container Service scales the required CPU environmental metrics."
"The production environment is highly available, which nowadays is a requirement for all of the big companies."
"What I really like about Amazon ECS is its simplicity and ease of use. Amazon also has really good security."
"I'm having difficulty getting my AWS clusters to communicate with my local machine."
"The solution should include a popup for clusters so that all relevant information is visible at the bottom of a page."
"A cluster is required on-premises, which takes a lot of time."
"Amazon EKS's vulnerability management of data could be improved."
"I believe the initial setup could be a better experience and faster customer support."
"An area for improvement in Amazon EKS is the user experience. The platform could be more user-friendly. Only an expert can manage and use it."
"They should include some essential configuration features to it."
"They could add logging features. At present, we use external tools to increase and decrease the number of instances."
"The existing domain-joined capability the solution provides during the initial boot-up of the compute should be streamlined and made a little robust."
"The solution needs to improve backup and pricing."
"EC2 is not self-explanatory enough."
"It's a complex tool and should be simplified."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service should include more enterprise project management features, typically available in an OpenShift environment."
"While it is generally stable, there have been some issues, especially when working on client projects where troubleshooting was needed."
"After the load balancer gets attached to Amazon Elastic Container Service clusters, I can't modify, remove, or replace it later."
"The pricing could be a bit better."
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Amazon EKS is ranked 2nd in Container Management with 38 reviews while Amazon Elastic Container Service is ranked 8th in Container Management with 46 reviews. Amazon EKS is rated 8.6, while Amazon Elastic Container Service is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon EKS writes "Supports multiple tools and has a straightforward setup process ". On the other hand, 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". Amazon EKS is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Kubernetes, Rancher Labs and Linode, whereas Amazon Elastic Container Service is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, Microsoft Azure Container Service, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Google Kubernetes Engine and Linode. See our Amazon EKS vs. Amazon Elastic Container Service report.
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