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We performed a comparison between Amazon EKS and Kubernetes 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. Kubernetes Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"Initial setup is straightforward. It only takes 15 minutes to deploy.""I can use the autoscaling feature to manage and scale up infrastructure.""Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.""Amazon EKS is like Kubernetes, but it helps manage our nodes and scalability in AWS.""The most valuable features of Amazon EKS are its auto scaling ability and the ability for service discovery.""It has valuable monitoring and insights features.""Overall Amazon EKS is a good solution in the industry. The solution can support multi tendencies, and network isolations are the key factors.""The most valuable feature is the cluster engine."

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"All the current features are quite harmonic.""Kubernetes' most valuable features are scaling, deployment, and container management.""Kubernetes' most valuable features include scalability and deployment.""The cloud-managed Kubernetes allow us to take care of a big system and deployment and container management without having a big operational team.""We find the smooth, instant fail-safes in this solution to be very useful, as this allows for easy revival of dying quads or failing applications.""Provides auto rollback and scale-up and scale-down functionalities.""The ease of use if the solution is a very valuable aspect for us.""The performance is good."

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Cons
"Amazon EKS is not a solution that can be fully managed through automation, making it an area of concern where improvement is required.""The solution should include a popup for clusters so that all relevant information is visible at the bottom of a page.""The graphical user interface could be better.""Amazon EKS's vulnerability management of data could be improved.""Setup depends on what kind of architecture you have""I'd like to see the solution add a service catalog.""The dashboard needs to be more user-friendly.""A cluster is required on-premises, which takes a lot of time."

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"Kubernetes can improve by providing a service offering catalog that can be readily populated in Kubernetes.""We would to have additional features related to security within the API, instead of needing to install add-ons.""This solution is not very easy to use.""Kubernetes is incredibly complicated, so one area of improvement is the ease of administration. I would like a user interface that you can run to help you debug and diagnose problems and suggest how to configure things.""There is not a large ecosystem surrounding Kubernetes, making it difficult to identify the right problem due to the vast number of solutions.""There are several areas where Kubernetes could improve.""Setup was not straightforward.""The Kubernetes dashboard can be improved. It is currently a mess. We were using Rancher earlier, and everyone was happy with the dashboard. Right now, we are using Kubernetes, and it's not working with Microsoft workstations. We still have problems with the dashboard. It's terrible."

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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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  • "The management layer is free, which is perfect. You don't need to pay money for the management layer, but in AWS develop service, you need to pay. I think it is €75 per month for the management layer. It is free here, so you can have as many Kubernetes clusters as you need. You are paying just for the workload, that is, for the machine, CPU, memory, and everything."
  • "Kubernetes is open-source."
  • "The solution is affordable."
  • "Kubernetes is open source. But we have to manage Kubernetes as a team, and the overhead is a bit high. Compared with the platforms like Cloud Foundry, which has a much less operational overhead. Kubernetes, I have to manage the code, and I have to hire the developers. If someone has a product, a developer should know exactly what he's writing or high availability, and all those things may differ the costs."
  • "There are no licensing fees."
  • "There is no licensing fee."
  • "In addition to Kubernetes, you have to pay for support."
  • "The solution requires a license to use it."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product's most valuable features are scalability, observability, and performance.
    Top Answer:The product pricing depends on the specific requirements. For instance, clients between $3000-$4000 per month might find the pricing reasonable, with clusters priced around $70 to $80 plus additional… more »
    Top Answer:They could add logging features. At present, we use external tools to increase and decrease the number of instances.
    Top Answer:The most valuable features of Kubernetes have been autoscaling and its resilience mechanisms.
    Top Answer:Microsoft provides reasonable costs for Kubernetes.
    Top Answer:The platform could be more convenient to use. While the Kubernetes CLI is powerful, the interface needs to be improved. The users often navigate between various third-party IDEs. Thus, a more… more »
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    Also Known As
    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
    K8
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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 (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
    It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community.

    Sample Customers
    GoDaddy, Pearson, FICO, Intuit, Verizon, Honeywell, Logicworks, RetailMeNot, LogMeIn, Conde Nast, mercari, Trainline, Axway
    China unicom, NetEase Cloud, Nav, AppDirect
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company26%
    Financial Services Firm26%
    Comms Service Provider21%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Insurance Company7%
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    Computer Software Company29%
    Retailer13%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Government7%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise26%
    Large Enterprise41%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise73%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise56%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise63%
    Buyer's Guide
    Amazon EKS vs. Kubernetes
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon EKS vs. Kubernetes and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    767,995 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Amazon EKS is ranked 2nd in Container Management with 38 reviews while Kubernetes is ranked 4th in Container Management with 67 reviews. Amazon EKS is rated 8.6, while Kubernetes is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon EKS writes "Supports multiple tools and has a straightforward setup process ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kubernetes writes "Container orchestrator that deploys our machine learning solutions". Amazon EKS is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Rancher Labs, Linode and HashiCorp Nomad, whereas Kubernetes is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Google Kubernetes Engine, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE, OpenShift Container Platform and HPE Ezmeral Container Platform. See our Amazon EKS vs. Kubernetes report.

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