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We performed a comparison between Amazon EKS and Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE 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. Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The stability is excellent.""What I found most valuable in Amazon EKS is its maturity as a cloud computing technology.""It's a faster solution to adopt on native applications.""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 stability of the solution is good.""It is the best service because it has proper security packages.""The most valuable feature is the computing speed.""Amazon EKS can be used to implement and create clusters."

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"The product integrates well with our infrastructure.""We can do a lot of provisioning.""We can add some add-ons and plugins to the product if we need to.""The solution is embedded in the hypervisor and there are no deployment costs.""The technical support is excellent.""The solution is easy to manage. You can get everything in a single platform. It is also easy to work with Terraform as a code.""The most valuable features of the Nutanix Kubernetes Engine (NKE) are its simplicity and efficiency during the initial cluster creation phase.""Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

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Cons
"I would like Amazon EKS to be easier to configure on various environments like Windows or Linux installations""It is very cumbersome to assign permissions to users to interact with a cluster.""I am not impressed with the tool's Amazon console. It also needs to add security features.""They should enhance the Jira integration.""The product’s pricing needs improvement.""They should include some essential configuration features to it.""I'd like to see the solution add a service catalog.""Amazon EKS should improve its integration."

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"Areas for improvement in Nutanix Kubernetes Engine (NKE) include upgrading management capabilities and enhancing the user interface for improved usability.""GUI lacks sufficient information to help with understanding the installation and process.""I have issues with the product's interoperability.""I would like to have more nodes for availability and storage.""We need a backup of production clusters.""There have been challenges related to software bugs, especially regarding long-term licensing options and issues within our customer network.""The product lacks some virtualization capabilities, making it an area for improvement where the solution can focus on providing users with more virtualization capabilities related to disk systems.""In the next release, I would like to have automatic dynamic scaling, both upscaling and downscaling."

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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 product's licenses are included in the software version deployed in our data center."
  • "I rate the product price a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."
  • "I rate NKE's pricing a six out of ten."
  • "The platform is averagely priced. I rate the pricing as four out of ten."
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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 the Nutanix Kubernetes Engine (NKE) are its simplicity and efficiency during the initial cluster creation phase.
    Top Answer:Areas for improvement in Nutanix Kubernetes Engine (NKE) include upgrading management capabilities and enhancing the user interface for improved usability. While basic tasks like cluster creation and… more »
    Top Answer:We utilize NKE to create these clusters, configuring components to meet specific business requirements.
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    5
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    Also Known As
    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
    Nutanix Karbon
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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.

    Nutanix Kubernetes Engine (NKE) is an enterprise Kubernetes management solution that simplifies provisioning, operations, and lifecycle management of Kubernetes.
    Sample Customers
    GoDaddy, Pearson, FICO, Intuit, Verizon, Honeywell, Logicworks, RetailMeNot, LogMeIn, Conde Nast, mercari, Trainline, Axway
    JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, SAIC Volkswagen
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company26%
    Financial Services Firm26%
    Comms Service Provider21%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Government7%
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    Financial Services Firm38%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Insurance Company13%
    Computer Software Company13%
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    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise26%
    Large Enterprise41%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise73%
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    Small Business60%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise20%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise62%
    Buyer's Guide
    Amazon EKS vs. Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon EKS vs. Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Amazon EKS is ranked 2nd in Container Management with 38 reviews while Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE is ranked 11th in Container Management with 9 reviews. Amazon EKS is rated 8.6, while Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Amazon EKS writes "An easily downloadable solution that enables containerization without relying on cloud infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE writes "Stable platform with an easy initial setup process ". Amazon EKS is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Kubernetes, Rancher Labs and HPE Ezmeral Container Platform, whereas Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Kubernetes, Rancher Labs and VMware Aria Operations for Applications. See our Amazon EKS vs. Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE report.

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