We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Container Service and OpenShift Container Platform 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."Overall, it is a user-friendly and efficient tool for managing containers."
"Amazon ECS allows users to deploy and manage container applications like microservices or web applications on Amazon clusters. It's easy to install and designed for AWS targets, serving as a serverless container platform. It offers features such as automatic scanning, load balancing, and service discovery to help users manage their container applications."
"The tool helps us with maneuverability. Its most valuable feature is autoscaling."
"What I really like about Amazon ECS is its simplicity and ease of use. Amazon also has really good security."
"It has helped our organization greatly and especially on weekends because we have many transactions as our users are buying some kind of tools and paying online."
"The solution has good performance."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service has multiple valuable features like load balancers and autoscalers."
"It is very lightweight and can be deployed very fast, especially when it comes to containers."
"The most valuable are security features, particularly when operating in the cloud."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its scalability on demand, which allows for potentially lower costs, and Built-in resiliency."
"Centralized control of container resources is most valuable."
"I have found the ability to scale up is most valuable."
"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."
"The platform is easy to scale as it supports Windows worker node."
"Red Hat's security throughout the stack and software supply chain is good. It is a lightweight operating system. You don't have to worry about the security patches on the system. You can update the entire environment with security patches, which is a nice feature."
"Visualization is an important factor for me, and I don't think that the visuals within ECS are good enough because it doesn't show you all the details you might need to see at a glance."
"For Amazon EC2 Container Service, providing the ability for users to select specific processor, memory, disk, and interface types might be an ideal feature. But, the practicality of offering all possible physical combinations is nearly impossible due to the underlying physical machines. AWS and Azure organize options into groups based on essential components like powerful processors or critical interfaces, considering physical restrictions. While expanding these choices is conceivable, it may not be feasible from a financial and practical perspective. Customers generally comprehend this limitation, as even in their own data centers, exact physical machine requirements are often a result of a combination of factors such as price, availability, and new machine generations."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service should simplify its management. It can be difficult for someone who doesn't have much experience with the tool. Also, the tool needs to add the ability to manage networks."
"I rate the platform's stability an eight out of ten. It easily dies."
"The orchestration of the workloads running in ECS needs improvement."
"Since it is a managed service for container orchestration, it may limit our control over certain infrastructure functions."
"Billing is extremely complex."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing of Amazon EC2 Container Service."
"It has an option to install OpenShift without connecting it to the Internet. We tried this, but it was very hard. We couldn't manage to use that option. We wanted to use it offline for installations, updates, upgrades, etc., but we didn't find the offline installation and updates easy. This could be better."
"We've encountered challenges when transitioning applications between these environments."
"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."
"The solution needs to introduce open ID connect integration for role-based access control."
"The complexity of the installation could be reduced. While we got the necessary support, the instructions could be clearer."
"The initial setup can be hard."
"Getting the solution quickly and troubleshooting quickly are both areas where I think it needs some work."
"It is difficult to deploy the OpenShift cluster in a bare-metal environment."
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Amazon Elastic Container Service is ranked 8th in Container Management with 46 reviews while OpenShift Container Platform is ranked 1st in Container Management with 36 reviews. Amazon Elastic Container Service is rated 8.4, while OpenShift Container Platform is rated 8.2. 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 OpenShift Container Platform writes "Provides automation that speeds up our process by 30% and helps us achieve zero downtime". Amazon Elastic Container Service is most compared with Microsoft Azure Container Service, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Google Kubernetes Engine and Linode, whereas OpenShift Container Platform is most compared with Amazon EKS, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE, Rancher Labs and Kubernetes. See our Amazon Elastic Container Service vs. OpenShift Container Platform report.
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