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Amazon Elastic Container Service vs Google Container Engine comparison

 

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

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
49
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
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Container Management category, the mindshare of Amazon Elastic Container Service is 1.7%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Container Engine is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Container Management
 

Featured Reviews

FABIO NAGAO - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Hoang Do - PeerSpot reviewer
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…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution has good performance."
"I like the per-second billing."
"It is a highly stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The product's initial setup was very straightforward and not complex."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"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."
"I like Amazon EC2 Container Service's elasticity."
"The tool is very powerful, scalable, and easy to manage. Its autoscaling features helped us save costs."
 

Cons

"Probably, they should include automated graphing, and monitoring solutions."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service’s initial setup is a bit difficult."
"The product should improve its price."
"The solution is expensive compared to other alternatives like Azure."
"Support could be better with response time and knowledge of staff."
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"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."
"After the load balancer gets attached to Amazon Elastic Container Service clusters, I can't modify, remove, or replace it later."
"Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is no need to pay anything towards the licensing costs of Amazon EC2 Container Service."
"The solution is expensive, but not too much."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service is priced high."
"If you increase the sizes, you incur costs to your accounts."
"The platform is inexpensive."
"Amazon ECS is expensive."
"They offer a pay-as-you-go pricing model for the product."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service has a decent price, which is neither cheap nor expensive."
"The tool's pricing is medium."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
33%
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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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 ...
What needs improvement with Amazon Elastic Container Service?
The solution must improve backup and compatibility around OS like Windows and Mac.
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.
What needs improvement with Google Container Engine?
Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products.
 

Also Known As

Amazon ECS, Amazon EC2 Container Service
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