We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Container Service and Microsoft Azure Container Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Containers as a Service (CaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"Good documentation and very straightforward to implement and use."
"The most valuable feature is the volume size they offer."
"The product's most valuable feature is service discovery functionality. It is an excellent feature impacting cost reduction."
"I like Amazon EC2 Container Service's elasticity."
"What I really like about Amazon ECS is its simplicity and ease of use. Amazon also has really good security."
"The production environment is highly available, which nowadays is a requirement for all of the big companies."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its scalability."
"The most valuable features are that it is simple, and the compression of the data."
"Visualization is the most important feature."
"The product makes things easier since it's self-managed. Therefore, there is less administration workload and operational costs."
"The most valuable feature is that you don't have to maintain the infrastructure."
"Storage is one of the most beneficial features of cloud providers, specifically Azure because when you are working in their cloud environment, you can easily use a storage interface and a storage object that is provided by Microsoft Azure. In a local environment, you have to be involved in establishing and setting up distributed storage file systems for containers which are very difficult and complex. In a cloud environment, you are not concerned about the storage and the dashboard provides you with storage objects with high availability."
"Microsoft Azure Container Service has a good level of stability."
"It's a great product if you are in a Microsoft environment."
"I also believe there are limitations in terms of upgrading. The software has the concept of dedicated servers that you can manage. However, an issue arises when you can't match one operating system with another that you've already purchased. You can't simply merge them; instead, you have to buy a completely new one. This limitation has caused some challenges for us."
"Sometimes, the instances fail under the ECS container cluster, and we have to manually go and find out the black sheep in the ECS container instance. We had an issue earlier where one of the instances under the ECS container cluster went down, and we were not able to identify that instance. The instance got terminated, but a new instance did not come up. Therefore, I had to manually get that instance up. It could be optimized better. In production, we normally cannot sustain such things. It can be optimized in terms of instances, durability, and serving the requests of customers."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service's security can be improved."
"I would like the product to improve integration with different platforms."
"My company has faced some stability issues with Amazon EC2 Container Service."
"There is room for improvement in the licensing costs. There can be better licensing costs."
"The solution could provide more reliability."
"EC2 is not self-explanatory enough."
"Standard support could be more helpful and responsive."
"Since the product is fully managed, it is expensive."
"In terms of the container strategy, they need to make it more compliant with the Linux OS."
"In the future, I would like to see it generalized and have the ability to better integrate with open-source tools."
"f Microsoft Azure can provide GUI dashboards for end-users and administrators to work separately to manage all the Kubernetes clusters without a need to connect to Azure environments and through CLI it would be better."
"The customization is an area that needs improvement."
"I wasn't very impressed with the documentation."
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Amazon Elastic Container Service is ranked 1st in Containers as a Service (CaaS) with 46 reviews while Microsoft Azure Container Service is ranked 2nd in Containers as a Service (CaaS) with 7 reviews. Amazon Elastic Container Service is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure Container Service 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 Microsoft Azure Container Service writes "Reliable, expandable and great for Microsoft-heavy environments". Amazon Elastic Container Service is most compared with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Google Kubernetes Engine and Linode, whereas Microsoft Azure Container Service is most compared with . See our Amazon Elastic Container Service vs. Microsoft Azure Container Service report.
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