We compared Amazon EKS and OpenShift Container Platform based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Amazon EKS is praised for its strong integration with AWS services, seamless scaling, security measures, and simple Kubernetes cluster management. Users appreciate the reliable and flexible application deployment. On the other hand, OpenShift Container Platform is recognized for its seamless system integration, resource management, security measures, and application scalability. Both platforms offer competitive pricing and flexible licensing, excellent customer support, and positive ROI. Areas for improvement in Amazon EKS include documentation and cost optimization, while OpenShift could enhance its user interface, system performance, resource management, and language support.
Features: Some valuable features of Amazon EKS include seamless integration with AWS services, efficient scaling capabilities, user-friendly interface, strong security measures, excellent customer support, and simplified management. On the other hand, OpenShift Container Platform stands out for its seamless integration with existing systems, efficient resource management, robust security measures, versatile customization options, and ease of scaling applications.
Pricing and ROI: Amazon EKS has positive feedback on its pricing, setup cost, and licensing. Users appreciate competitive pricing, easy setup, and no significant costs. OpenShift Container Platform also receives positive feedback on reasonable pricing, straightforward setup, and flexible licensing., Compared to OpenShift Container Platform, Amazon EKS users have reported increased efficiency, cost savings, valuable resource optimization, and seamless deployment. OpenShift Container Platform users have praised its improvements in resource utilization, scalability, efficiency, and cost savings, resulting in increased productivity and revenue growth. Both platforms optimize operations and enhance business performance.
Room for Improvement: Amazon EKS could improve its documentation and tutorials, as well as enhance scalability and optimize costs. OpenShift Container Platform should focus on UI enhancements, system performance improvements, resource management, and supporting more programming languages.
Deployment and customer support: According to user reviews, the duration required for setting up and implementing a new tech solution in Amazon EKS is mentioned as a week for both deployment and setup phases. On the other hand, OpenShift Container Platform shows a significant variation in time, ranging from three months for deployment and an additional week for setup, to just a week for both deployment and setup. Context is important to consider., Amazon EKS excels in customer service with prompt and helpful assistance, excellent communication, and efficient problem-solving. OpenShift Container Platform also receives positive feedback, with promptness, responsiveness, and effective solutions.
The summary above is based on 62 interviews we conducted recently with Amazon EKS and OpenShift Container Platform users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"What I found most valuable in Amazon EKS is its maturity as a cloud computing technology."
"The product helps us to configure the new environment."
"Through Amazon EKS, we can have the blue-green deployment very easily."
"Initial setup is straightforward. It only takes 15 minutes to deploy."
"It's a faster solution to adopt on native applications."
"It's the best option for medium or large enterprises."
"It is a scalable solution."
"We haven't faced any major issues in one and a half years of use."
"It’s user-friendly."
"Some of the primary features we leverage in the platform have to do with how we manage the cluster configurations, the properties, and the auto-scalability. These are the features that definitely provide value in terms of reducing overhead for the developers."
"I have found the ability to scale up is most valuable."
"Centralized control of container resources is most valuable."
"Technical support is good; they are fast and reliable."
"OpenShift is a user-friendly container platform with a solid GUI that helps you follow what is going on and gives you an overview of all your clusters. It's more user-friendly than the Kubernetes itself. The interface helps you learn the platform and provides access to some features or specific comments."
"The stack in the software supply chain is one of the main reasons that we use OpenShift. When I came to this company, we bought hardware from IBM named Bluemix, and they used ICP, which stands for IBM Cloud Private."
"It is very lightweight and can be deployed very fast, especially when it comes to containers."
"I encountered problems with the product’s documentation."
"The management of the nodes in Amazon EKS should be improved."
"The overall stability of the product should be improved to prevent any loss of data."
"I would like to see a cloud setup bank management feature."
"The product’s pricing needs improvement."
"The graphical user interface could be better."
"The goal and idea behind microservices are to always be available and capable of handling any load, no matter how many requests come through...All of these services are great, but I also think it would be useful to have the same technology available in a miniature resource size, enabling the same applications and services to run on a small machine."
"They need to work on the Amazon plugins on the Kubernetes cluster."
"Setting up OpenShift isn't easy. I rate it three out of ten for ease of setup. We're deploying it in three phases. They're in the second phase now. The total deployment time will be five months. We expect to complete the deployment this March. There are 13 people on three teams working on this deployment."
"Getting the solution quickly and troubleshooting quickly are both areas where I think it needs some work."
"The monitoring and logging could be improved."
"From a networking perspective, the routing capability can be matured further. OpenShift doesn't handle restrictions on what kind of IPs are allowed, who can access them, and who cannot access them. So it is a simple matter of just using it with adequate network access, at the network level."
"There should be a simplification of the overall cluster environment. It should require fewer resources. Just to run a simple Hello World app, it requires about seven servers, and that's just crazy. I understand that it is fully redundant, but it's prohibitively expensive to get something simple going."
"Container Platform could be improved if we could aggregate logs out of the box instead of having to do it through integrations with other products."
"We've encountered challenges when transitioning applications between these environments."
"The setup process is not great."
Amazon EKS is ranked 2nd in Container Management with 38 reviews while OpenShift Container Platform is ranked 1st in Container Management with 36 reviews. Amazon EKS is rated 8.6, while OpenShift Container Platform is rated 8.2. 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 OpenShift Container Platform writes "Provides automation that speeds up our process by 30% and helps us achieve zero downtime". Amazon EKS is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Kubernetes, Rancher Labs, Linode and HashiCorp Nomad, whereas OpenShift Container Platform is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE, Amazon Elastic Container Service, Rancher Labs and Kubernetes. See our Amazon EKS vs. OpenShift Container Platform report.
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