We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Container Service and Google Container Engine based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most valuable feature, after using Amazon EC2 Container Service for two years, is to set the availability and also for network throughput."
"The production environment is highly available, which nowadays is a requirement for all of the big companies."
"It has an Auto Scaling group feature. We can use this feature to have an Auto Scaling group to specify a minimum and maximum count for all types of configurations. Based on the specified values, Amazon Elastic Container Service scales the required CPU environmental metrics."
"The cloud services are readily available."
"The most valuable feature is the volume size they offer."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The product's initial setup was very straightforward and not complex."
"The tool is very powerful, scalable, and easy to manage. Its autoscaling features helped us save costs."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service should simplify its management. It can be difficult for someone who doesn't have much experience with the tool. Also, the tool needs to add the ability to manage networks."
"EC2 is not self-explanatory enough."
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"Since it is a managed service for container orchestration, it may limit our control over certain infrastructure functions."
"The solution is expensive compared to other alternatives like Azure."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service’s initial setup is a bit difficult."
"The documentation and usage for the users can be better because for new users it can be very hard to understand and use the solution. They can add small images and accessories."
"While it is generally stable, there have been some issues, especially when working on client projects where troubleshooting was needed."
"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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