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We performed a comparison between Amazon EKS and Google Kubernetes Engine 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Amazon EKS vs. Google Kubernetes Engine Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"It is the best service because it has proper security packages.""Amazon EKS is like Kubernetes, but it helps manage our nodes and scalability in AWS.""What I found most valuable in Amazon EKS is its maturity as a cloud computing technology.""The solution has very good basic features.""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.""The most important aspect of Amazon EKS is that it is easy to set up and very easy to upgrade.""It has valuable monitoring and insights features.""Initial setup is straightforward. It only takes 15 minutes to deploy."

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"I am impressed with the product's output scaling.""Google Kubernetes Engine's most valuable features are microservices and its acquisition rate, which is very useful for scaling perspective.""The initial setup is very easy. We can create our cluster using the command line, or using our console.""Stability-wise, this solution is really good.""We used automation for the initial setup. It was okay. So it wasn't too complex.""On the tip of a command, you can scale in or scale out, and it offers every robust platform to implement DevOps processes for your automation solutions. The product fully supports the IaC concept.""Google Kubernetes Engine's most valuable feature is container deployment.""I am satisfied with the stability offered by the solution."

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Cons
"There is room for improvement in stability. I faced some problems with the App.""I'd like to see the solution add a service catalog.""They should include some essential configuration features to it.""The connectivity could be better.""Setup depends on what kind of architecture you have""I'm having difficulty getting my AWS clusters to communicate with my local machine.""The documentation part of the product is an area of concern that needs to be made easier from an improvement perspective.""Amazon EKS is not a solution that can be fully managed through automation, making it an area of concern where improvement is required."

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"The tool's configuration features need improvement.""It needs to support load balancing.""Their documentation is a little here and there. Sometimes, the information is not clear or updated. Their documentation should be a little bit better.""Google Kubernetes Engine's cost should be improved because it is high.""The product’s visible allocation feature needs improvement.""The user interface is a bit confusing sometimes. You need to navigate between the various consoles we have. It's hard to figure out where things are. It's frustrating. The documentation could be a bit better.""t is not very stable.""I would like to see the ability to create multiple notebook configurations."

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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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  • "We are planning to use external support, and hire a commercial partner for it."
  • "This is an open source solution, so there is no pricing or licensing."
  • "Currently, it costs around $1000 per month which sorted our deployment. So once we get more clients, having a huge suffix, costs can go up."
  • "I would rate Kubernetes' pricing four out of five."
  • "The price for Google Kubernetes Engine could be lower - I'd rate its pricing at three out of five."
  • "It is competitive, and it is not expensive. It is almost competitive with AWS and the rest of the cloud solutions. We are spending around 3K USD per month. There are four projects that are currently running, and each one is incurring a cost of around 3K USD."
  • "The pricing for GKE is dependent on the type of machine or virtual machine (VM) that is selected for the nodes in the cluster. There is a degree of flexibility in choosing the specifications of the machine, such as the number of CPUs, GPUs, and so on. Google provides a variety of options, allowing the user to create the desired cluster composition. However, the cost can be quite steep when it comes to regional clusters, which are necessary for high availability and failover. This redundancy is crucial for businesses and is required to handle an increase in requests in case of any issues in one region, such as jumping to a different region in case of a failure in the Toronto region. While it may be tempting to choose the cheapest type of machines, this may result in a limited capacity and user numbers, requiring over-provisioning to handle additional requests, such as those for a web application."
  • "Its pricing is good. They bill us only per user. That's nice."
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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 solution simplified deployment, making it more automated. Previously, Docker required manual configuration, often done by developers on their computers. However, with Google Kubernetes Engine… more »
    Top Answer:The tool's configuration features need improvement.
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    Also Known As
    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
    GKE
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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.

    Kubernetes Engine is a managed, production-ready environment for deploying containerized applications. It brings our latest innovations in developer productivity, resource efficiency, automated operations, and open source flexibility to accelerate your time to market.

    Sample Customers
    GoDaddy, Pearson, FICO, Intuit, Verizon, Honeywell, Logicworks, RetailMeNot, LogMeIn, Conde Nast, mercari, Trainline, Axway
    Philips Lighting, Alpha Vertex, GroupBy, BQ
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company26%
    Financial Services Firm26%
    Comms Service Provider21%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Insurance Company8%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm25%
    Energy/Utilities Company13%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Company Size
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    Small Business32%
    Midsize Enterprise26%
    Large Enterprise42%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise73%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business47%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise38%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise72%
    Buyer's Guide
    Amazon EKS vs. Google Kubernetes Engine
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon EKS vs. Google Kubernetes Engine and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Amazon EKS is ranked 2nd in Container Management with 37 reviews while Google Kubernetes Engine is ranked 10th in Container Management with 31 reviews. Amazon EKS is rated 8.6, while Google Kubernetes 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 Kubernetes Engine writes "The auto-scaling feature helps during peak hours, but the support is not great". Amazon EKS is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Kubernetes, Rancher Labs and Linode, whereas Google Kubernetes Engine is most compared with Kubernetes, Linode, OpenShift Container Platform, VMware Tanzu Mission Control and Rancher Labs. See our Amazon EKS vs. Google Kubernetes Engine report.

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