Amazon Elastic Container Service vs Google Container Engine comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google are both solutions in the Container Management category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.4, while Google is ranked #15 with an average rating of 8.0. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 2.2% mindshare in CM, compared to Google’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Google users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Elastic Container Se...

Ranking in Container Management

7th

Ranking in Containers as a Service (CaaS)

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Google Container Engine

Ranking in Container Management

15th

Ranking in Containers as a Service (CaaS)

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

8.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Container Management category, the mindshare of Amazon Elastic Container Service is 2.2%, down from 3.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Container Engine is 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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FABIO NAGAO

Chief Technology Officer at Looplex SA

Horizontal scaling is streamlined when deploying modern workloads

Currently, when scaling with Amazon Elastic Container Service, I have to choose between monitoring CPU or memory usage to scale up or scale out; there is no option to monitor both simultaneously. This limitation makes it challenging to define a balanced scale-out automation since a well-written software should balance between processing and memory.

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Hoang Do

DevOps Engineer at The Digital Group Inc

Has autoscaling features that helps to save costs

We use the solution to deploy microservices. The tool is very powerful, scalable, and easy to manage. Its autoscaling features helped us save costs. Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products. I have been using the product for two years. I rate the product's…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"ECS is a useful platform."

"ECS is flexible and easy to use."

"The product's initial setup was very straightforward and not complex."

"The cloud services are readily available."

"It's quick and easy to have the solution working."

"I like Amazon EC2 Container Service's elasticity."

"A really good feature of ECS is the integration with AWS services, especially the networking services like Elastic Load Balancer, Service Mesh, and Service Map, which simplifies the service discovery process."

"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."

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"The tool is very powerful, scalable, and easy to manage. Its autoscaling features helped us save costs."

Cons

"There is room for improvement in the licensing costs. There can be better licensing costs."

"The solution's stability is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"I think that it would help if the vendor provided more use cases and explanations as to how ECS can be utilized."

"Currently, when scaling with Amazon Elastic Container Service, I have to choose between monitoring CPU or memory usage to scale up or scale out; there is no option to monitor both simultaneously."

"They could provide easier options for third-party integrations similar to internal AWS services."

"I would like the product to improve integration with different platforms."

"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."

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"Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licensing can be purchased directly from AWS or used with existing licenses, depending on the company's preference. The licensing structure is complex and depends on factors such as machine size, number of processors, and Container size. Companies have dedicated staff members managing license considerations full-time to find the most cost-effective options. Also, I have seen some companies opt for a combination of AWS and Azure, using more of Azure for Microsoft licenses due to potentially lower costs compared to AWS."

"If you increase the sizes, you incur costs to your accounts."

"I rate the product's pricing an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"Amazon EC2 Container Service is an expensive solution."

"Although AWS has successfully captured over 60 percent of the market in the cloud part, the tool is competitively way cheaper for the resources it provides compared to the other solutions."

"The product's pricing is good."

"Amazon EC2 Container Service is cheap."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price, I rate Amazon EC2 Container Service’s pricing a four or five out of ten."

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"The tool's pricing is medium."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

33%

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon Elastic Container Service?

Implementing the product has helped me monitor the parameters. I utilize tools like CloudWatch and AWS systems to track these parameters. If any issues arise, I alert our developer team to address ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Elastic Container Service?

The product's pricing is good.

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What needs improvement with Amazon Elastic Container Service?

The solution must improve backup and compatibility around OS like Windows and Mac.

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What do you like most about Google Container Engine?

The tool is very powerful, scalable, and easy to manage. Its autoscaling features helped us save costs.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Container Engine?

The tool's pricing is medium.

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What needs improvement with Google Container Engine?

Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products.

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Also Known As

Amazon ECS, Amazon EC2 Container Service

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Overview

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS. Amazon ECS eliminates the need for you to install and operate your own container orchestration software, manage and scale a cluster of virtual machines, or schedule containers on those virtual machines.

Google Container Engine is a powerful cluster manager and orchestration system for running your Docker containers. Container Engine schedules your containers into the cluster and manages them automatically based on requirements you define (such as CPU and memory). It's built on the open source Kubernetes system, giving you the flexibility to take advantage of on-premises, hybrid, or public cloud infrastructure.

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