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We performed a comparison between Amazon EKS and Google Container Engine based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The solution is easy-to-set up.""It has always helped me. It is the repository where we store our images...The microservices appear to be well-made, and I don't have any comments on them as I don't see any flaws.""The most valuable feature is the computing speed.""Through Amazon EKS, we can have the blue-green deployment very easily.""The solution is easy to use.""EKS has security features that you can't find in competing solutions.""The feature that I have found most valuable is that it is very user-friendly.""Provides high performance and easy manageability."

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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
"I'd like improved traffic handling and additional application details within the system.""Amazon EKS provides very minimum information during the upgrade of the node group.""Amazon EKS needs to improve customer operations and technical support.""The solution could be improved by adding monitoring, filtering, and logging capabilities to its current CloudWatch features.""The documentation part of the product is an area of concern that needs to be made easier from an improvement perspective.""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.""The overall stability of the product should be improved to prevent any loss of data.""I am not impressed with the tool's Amazon console. It also needs to add security features."

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"Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The solution is more expensive than other competitors and does not require a license."
  • "Cloud based pay-as-you-go pricing"
  • "My company paid for the license."
  • "Pricing is dependent upon instance type."
  • "The solution is quite costly and developers will start exploring other solutions or moving their workloads to other clouds if costs aren't reduced."
  • "The price could be cheaper. I would rate it as seven out of ten."
  • "Amazon EKS has fair pricing. It's better in terms of pricing than other platforms."
  • "I would like a cheaper version of it."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
    Top Answer:The product is available at such a huge scale in the market since the resources that are offered under the tool are competitively priced and available at a much cheaper rate compared to other… more »
    Top Answer:When it comes to Amazon EKS, there are IAM permissions and RBAC. When you create an IAM user, you give the privileges on the cluster level, but there won't be anything inside the clusters. In the… more »
    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 Elastic Kubernetes Service
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    Overview

    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a fully managed Kubernetes service. Customers such as Intel, Snap, Intuit, GoDaddy, and Autodesk trust EKS to run their most sensitive and mission critical applications because of its security, reliability, and scalability.

    EKS is the best place to run Kubernetes for several reasons. First, you can choose to run your EKS clusters using AWS Fargate, which is serverless compute for containers. Fargate removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you specify and pay for resources per application, and improves security through application isolation by design. Second, EKS is deeply integrated with services such as Amazon CloudWatch, Auto Scaling Groups, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), providing you a seamless experience to monitor, scale, and load-balance your applications. Third, EKS integrates with AWS App Mesh and provides a Kubernetes native experience to consume service mesh features and bring rich observability, traffic controls and security features to applications. Additionally, EKS provides a scalable and highly-available control plane that runs across multiple availability zones to eliminate a single point of failure.
    EKS runs upstream Kubernetes and is certified Kubernetes conformant so you can leverage all benefits of open source tooling from the community. You can also easily migrate any standard Kubernetes application to EKS without needing to refactor your code.

    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.

    Sample Customers
    GoDaddy, Pearson, FICO, Intuit, Verizon, Honeywell, Logicworks, RetailMeNot, LogMeIn, Conde Nast, mercari, Trainline, Axway
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    Computer Software Company26%
    Financial Services Firm26%
    Comms Service Provider21%
    Manufacturing Company11%
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    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Insurance Company8%
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    Small Business32%
    Midsize Enterprise26%
    Large Enterprise42%
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    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise73%
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    Amazon EKS is ranked 2nd in Container Management with 37 reviews while Google Container Engine is ranked 14th in Container Management with 1 review. Amazon EKS is rated 8.6, while Google Container Engine is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon EKS writes "Can be used to implement and create clusters, but assigning permissions to users is difficult". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Container Engine writes "Has autoscaling features that helps to save costs ". Amazon EKS is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Kubernetes, Rancher Labs and Linode, whereas Google Container Engine is most compared with .

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