Microsoft Azure Container Service Reviews

Name: Microsoft Azure Container Service
Brand: Microsoft
Rating: 4.1 (7 reviews)

4.1 out of 5

7 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is Microsoft Azure Container Service?

Azure Container Service optimizes the configuration of popular open source tools and technologies specifically for Azure. You get an open solution that offers portability for both your containers and your application configuration. You select the size, the number of hosts, and choice of orchestrator tools, and Container Service handles everything else.

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Microsoft Azure Container Service is the #2 ranked solution in top Containers as a Service vendors. PeerSpot users give Microsoft Azure Container Service an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. Microsoft Azure Container Service is most commonly compared to Amazon Elastic Container Service: Microsoft Azure Container Service vs Amazon Elastic Container Service.

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Microsoft Azure Container Service

February 2025

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Featured Microsoft Azure Container Service reviews

PrateekMehrotra

Solutions Architect/Team Lead at Publicis Sapient

I have been in touch with the Microsoft technical support team many times. Generally it is good, although it depends on the type of support that you have. They have multiple support plans available, and my interaction with them depends on the support that they subscribe to. Some of my clients have premium support plans, in which an engineer will be assigned to you. They track each and every issue and it will be a pretty quick turnaround time for the issues that you face. If you are on a standard support plan then it has its own affiliates that will be followed up by Microsoft. Even in this case, the response time is quite good.

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Charles Daou

Senior system Engineer at Soft Flow

It is simple to set up the solution. We've never had issues with the installation. I'd rate the ease of setup eight out of ten. The deployment only took a couple of days. The issue for us is that we don't have fast internet, and the migration slows down based on the internet speed. We had two engineers managing the deployment and five to six people with maintenance tasks.

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SenthuranPooranananthan

Senior Director of DevOps at Asset Works

You will have a Docker container and push the container to the container registry. The product makes things easier since it's self-managed. Therefore, there is less administration workload and operational costs. Since the product is fully managed, it is expensive. I have been working with the…

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Microsoft Azure Container Service mindshare

As of March 2025, the mindshare of Microsoft Azure Container Service in the Containers as a Service (CaaS) category stands at 26.5%, down from 35.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerAnalyst reports based on Microsoft Azure Container Service reviews

Type	Title	Date
Category	Containers as a Service (CaaS)	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Comparison	Microsoft Azure Container Service vs Amazon Elastic Container Service	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Comparison	Microsoft Azure Container Service vs IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service	Mar 4, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Amazon Elastic Container Service	4.2	34.8%	94%	49 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"The product makes things easier since it's self-managed. Therefore, there is less administration workload and operational costs."
"Visualization is the most important feature."
"It's a great product if you are in a Microsoft environment."

Room for Improvement

"Since the product is fully managed, it is expensive."
"Standard support could be more helpful and responsive."
"In terms of the container strategy, they need to make it more compliant with the Linux OS."

Pricing

"The solution's pricing is reasonable."
"Microsoft Azure Container Service has costs but in the container environment, there are no costs because it is open source and we are using Docker as the container engine in the master and worker nodes established in the Azure environment."
"The costs depend on the resources that you use, and there is a cost-management system to help calculate it."

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