We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Container Service 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."The tool helps us with maneuverability. Its most valuable feature is autoscaling."
"The most valuable feature, after using Amazon EC2 Container Service for two years, is to set the availability and also for network throughput."
"The solution is quite scalable and allows you to launch multiple EC2s within minutes."
"ECS is flexible and easy to use."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service is more stable."
"For me, the best feature of ECS is Fargate because I don't have to manage anything. Instead, everything is managed by AWS and all I have to do, in essence, is configure my containers and deploy them."
"The production environment is highly available, which nowadays is a requirement for all of the big companies."
"In seven years, we have not faced a single second of downtime."
"The solution is stable."
"This solution is not vendor-locked, which means that we we are able to use it across all of our resources; this feature is of great value to us."
"A great UI with very good integrations."
"Rancher Labs is a very user-friendly tool."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an open-source solution that is easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature of Rancher Labs is its user interface, which makes it easier to work with containers and deployment."
"The most valuable feature is its comprehensive support, easy resource scaling, compatibility with various OEMs, and seamless service integration."
"The scalability potential is very good."
"Support could be better with response time and knowledge of staff."
"There is room for improvement in the licensing costs. There can be better licensing costs."
"Since it is a managed service for container orchestration, it may limit our control over certain infrastructure functions."
"My company has faced some stability issues with Amazon EC2 Container Service."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service's security can be improved."
"In the next release, they could add some customization options for high computer workloads."
"Probably, they should include automated graphing, and monitoring solutions."
"The solution's user experience and management are really bad."
"We'd like their monitoring tool to be integrated by default."
"There needs to be an improvement in observability and microservice monitoring tools in Rancher Labs."
"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."
"The solution could improve by adding more features in the dashboard, such as monitoring, scanning, and security. This would be a great benefit."
"We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated."
"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."
"I can't migrate to the newer version."
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Amazon Elastic Container Service is ranked 8th in Container Management with 46 reviews while Rancher Labs is ranked 5th in Container Management with 12 reviews. Amazon Elastic Container Service is rated 8.4, while Rancher Labs 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 Rancher Labs writes "An easy-to-use user interface, which makes it easy to work with Kubernetes and containers". 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 Rancher Labs is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, OpenShift Container Platform, Amazon EKS, Docker and Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE. See our Amazon Elastic Container Service vs. Rancher Labs report.
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