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We performed a comparison between Amazon EKS and Rancher Labs 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.
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Pros
"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.""I like its auto-scale feature very much.""AWS cloud services are flexible and have thorough documentation. AWS also has data centers all over the world.""Overall Amazon EKS is a good solution in the industry. The solution can support multi tendencies, and network isolations are the key factors.""Provides high performance and easy manageability.""The most valuable feature is the computing speed.""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."

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"The solution is stable.""The scalability potential is very good.""The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an open-source solution that is easy to deploy.""The initial setup is simple and straightforward.""Rancher Labs is a very user-friendly tool.""The most valuable feature of Rancher Labs is its user interface, which makes it easier to work with containers and deployment.""The solution has a lot of good features, such as you can access the console and edit through the GUI. The dashboard and the UI are designed well, user-friendly, and easy to manage, and access.""A great UI with very good integrations."

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Cons
"A cluster is required on-premises, which takes a lot of time.""The documentation part of the product is an area of concern that needs to be made easier from an improvement perspective.""The product’s pricing needs improvement.""Amazon EKS is not a solution that can be fully managed through automation, making it an area of concern where improvement is required.""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 tool's setup is complex.""I would like to see it a little more stable, more operational, and more convenient to develop.""They should include some essential configuration features to it."

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"There needs to be an improvement in observability and microservice monitoring tools in Rancher Labs.""We'd like their monitoring tool to be integrated by default.""The biggest room for improvement in Rancher Labs would be to have a proper upgrading plan.""They should improve application visibility along with code visibility.""We have found that the auto-secure feature of this solution doesn't always work, and could be improved to be more reliable, particularly when working with business critical applications.""We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated.""The solution could improve by adding more features in the dashboard, such as monitoring, scanning, and security. This would be a great benefit.""I can't migrate to the newer version."

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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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  • "There is an annual subscription. The price of the solution should be cheaper and have better pricing flexibility."
  • "The solution is free and open source but there is a fee for support."
  • "This is an open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs involved."
  • "Although Rancher Labs is an open-source solution, they also offer a paid version, where you buy the support when needed."
  • "The pricing of the solution sits in the mid range, not high and not low. It has a fixed price that you pay every month."
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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 product is simple to use for a beginner.
    Top Answer:Pricing for Genesys and Rancher Labs is quite similar, and it varies depending on the specific case and the discounts negotiated from the list price. We have a term license based on a yearly… more »
    Top Answer:To implement deployments, you can initially start with yaml files instead of relying solely on the Linux command line interface. This approach could be more comfortable for users working with yaml… more »
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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.

    Rancher Labs build innovative, open source software that makes it easy to deploy and manage containers in production on any infrastructure. We enable organizations to accelerate all aspects of their software development pipeline, from writing and testing code to running complex microservices-based applications.

    Rancher, our flagship container management platform, allows users to easily manage all aspects of running containers in development and production environments, on any infrastructure. With well over four million downloads, Rancher has quickly become the tools of choice for teams serious about running containers in production. This includes large enterprises such as Sony, IBM, Tyco, Align Technologies and more.

    Sample Customers
    GoDaddy, Pearson, FICO, Intuit, Verizon, Honeywell, Logicworks, RetailMeNot, LogMeIn, Conde Nast, mercari, Trainline, Axway
    Albert Heijn, Bell, BMC, Samsung, WindStream, Johnson & Johnson
    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 Company8%
    Insurance Company8%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government9%
    Company Size
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    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise26%
    Large Enterprise41%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise73%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business42%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise50%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise68%
    Buyer's Guide
    Amazon EKS vs. Rancher Labs
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon EKS vs. Rancher Labs and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Amazon EKS is ranked 2nd in Container Management with 37 reviews while Rancher Labs is ranked 5th in Container Management with 12 reviews. Amazon EKS is rated 8.6, while Rancher Labs is rated 8.2. 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 Rancher Labs writes "An easy-to-use user interface, which makes it easy to work with Kubernetes and containers". Amazon EKS is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Kubernetes, Linode and HashiCorp Nomad, whereas Rancher Labs is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, OpenShift Container Platform, Docker, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE and Google Kubernetes Engine. See our Amazon EKS vs. Rancher Labs report.

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