We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Container Service and Google Container Engine based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware and others in Container Management."The cloud services are readily available."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon EC2 Container Service is its flexibility."
"ECS is a useful platform."
"Performance is our top priority. So, if we need to deploy on a high-specification machine, we can choose it from the software. If we just need a low-specification one, we can just choose it based on the requirement handling software configuration."
"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 solution is quite scalable and allows you to launch multiple EC2s within minutes."
"The product's initial setup was very straightforward and not complex."
"They handle the backup process quite well. They automatically encapsulate it, including container backups, without relying heavily on the client's involvement. This is a significant advantage compared to other providers where clients often need to manage the process more independently. It's a feature that I find suitable and beneficial."
"The tool is very powerful, scalable, and easy to manage. Its autoscaling features helped us save costs."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service's security can be improved."
"I think that it would help if the vendor provided more use cases and explanations as to how ECS can be utilized."
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"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."
"Since it is a managed service for container orchestration, it may limit our control over certain infrastructure functions."
"The solution needs to be more usable."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service needs to improve the menu design. It needs to improve deployment with better documentation."
"It's a complex tool and should be simplified."
"Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products."
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Amazon Elastic Container Service is ranked 8th in Container Management with 46 reviews while Google Container Engine is ranked 14th in Container Management with 1 review. Amazon Elastic Container Service is rated 8.4, while Google Container Engine is rated 8.0. 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 Google Container Engine writes "Has autoscaling features that helps to save costs ". Amazon Elastic Container Service is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, Microsoft Azure Container Service, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Linode and Google Kubernetes Engine, whereas Google Container Engine is most compared with .
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