We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Container Service 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."The solution is quite scalable and allows you to launch multiple EC2s within minutes."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service is a flexible product from Amazon. You can put it in the Auto Scaling group for high availability. There are also a lot of choices for pricing."
"The most valuable feature, after using Amazon EC2 Container Service for two years, is to set the availability and also for network throughput."
"What I really like about Amazon ECS is its simplicity and ease of use. Amazon also has really good security."
"We primarily employ the Linux platform in terms of architecture. It utilizes its database, MySQL. Additionally, for CI/CD processes, we rely on Amazon CodeBuild. Furthermore, we use Amazon S3 storage to store specific static files. Currently, the system is running smoothly, and we don't actively perform any maintenance tasks as everything is automated."
"The product's initial setup was very straightforward and not complex."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service is a stable solution."
"I like the tool's availability and automated scalability. I need to define the port numbers, and when I have a large load of requests, I can get automated scalability."
"This solution is cost effective and fast. We are able to use Kubernetes to orchestrate hundreds of container images which has been a major benefit."
"This product has a rich toolset from the community including CNI plug-ins, Helm packages, operators, dashboards, various integrations, etc."
"Scalability is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Kubernetes is automation. It is the best tool for automation."
"I like Kubernetes' scalability, built-in redundancy, and ease of deployment."
"The easy management of containers is one of the main features I have found useful."
"The solution has many valuable features but the most impressive is the ability to scale an application and continuously monitor if all the components of the application are functioning correctly."
"The scanning and support network."
"We noticed a problem where our container doesn't always run, and the traffic in our secured license exceeds 100%, leading to increased container costs. We are working to understand and reduce this traffic to control costs."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service's security can be improved."
"I rate the platform's stability an eight out of ten. It easily dies."
"Probably, they should include automated graphing, and monitoring solutions."
"The existing domain-joined capability the solution provides during the initial boot-up of the compute should be streamlined and made a little robust."
"The solution must improve backup and compatibility around OS like Windows and Mac."
"Billing is extremely complex."
"The orchestration of the workloads running in ECS needs improvement."
"Lacks some scalability and more user-friendly operability."
"One feature I would actually like to see is the network monitoring part. When we talk about communities, it's mostly the computer side. But it does have some enhancements on the networking side which they have recently released. I would like to see more enhancement where we can monitor the networks of the Kubernetes cluster or the Kubernetes workloads."
"I'm expecting more improvement on the UI development side, which can be reflected in each object that is part of Kubernetes, like the Pod, deployment set, ReplicaSet, ConfigMap, Secrets, and PersistentVolume."
"I think that the GUI dashboard in Kubernetes is very simple and that there are no great options."
"We would to have additional features related to security within the API, instead of needing to install add-ons."
"Kubernetes could adopt UI-based approach. A UI-based approach would be really useful in the CI/CD pipeline. They should make everything a little bit more user-friendly. For example, when I'm deploying, it would be nice to load my code and be able to see which components need to be connected."
"The setup and operation of the product should be simplified."
"The tool needs to improve its UI. The tool is very complex and basic."
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Amazon Elastic Container Service is ranked 8th in Container Management with 46 reviews while Kubernetes is ranked 4th in Container Management with 67 reviews. Amazon Elastic Container Service is rated 8.4, while Kubernetes is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon Elastic Container Service writes "An easy to compute solution that can be used to take complete workloads to the cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kubernetes writes "Container orchestrator that deploys our machine learning solutions". Amazon Elastic Container Service is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, Microsoft Azure Container Service, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Google Kubernetes Engine and Linode, whereas Kubernetes is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Amazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE and OpenShift Container Platform. See our Amazon Elastic Container Service vs. Kubernetes report.
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