Amazon Elastic Container Service vs Microsoft Azure Container Service comparison

Amazon Elastic Container Service vs. Microsoft Azure Container Service

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Elastic Container Se...

Ranking in Containers as a Service (CaaS)

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Container Management (7th)

Microsoft Azure Container S...

Ranking in Containers as a Service (CaaS)

2nd

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Containers as a Service (CaaS) category, the mindshare of Amazon Elastic Container Service is 33.6%, down from 37.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure Container Service is 26.7%, down from 35.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

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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PrateekMehrotra

Solutions Architect/Team Lead at Publicis Sapient

Secure, good integration capability, and you don't have to maintain any infrastructure

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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I use the tool to manage containerized applications. What I like about Amazon ECS is the interface it provides. Although the configurations can be extensive, such as setting up auto-scaling groups and configuring separate tasks and services for each application, the interface makes it manageable."

"The solution is easy to scale and implement and provides performance monitoring and management tools."

"Amazon Elastic Container Service makes horizontal scaling easy and is especially effective when working under the ECS service."

"Amazon EC2 Container Service has multiple valuable features like load balancers and autoscalers."

"The tool helps us with maneuverability. Its most valuable feature is autoscaling."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its scalability."

"The solution is quite scalable and allows you to launch multiple EC2s within minutes."

"The solution is simple to access."

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"Microsoft Azure Container Service has a good level of stability."

"It's a great product if you are in a Microsoft environment."

"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."

"The most valuable feature is that you don't have to maintain the infrastructure."

"The most valuable features are that it is simple, and the compression of the data."

"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."

Cons

"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."

"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."

"The solution's pricing could be improved."

"The pricing could be a bit better."

"There is room for improvement in the pricing of Amazon EC2 Container Service."

"The solution could provide more reliability."

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

"The user interface of ECS could be improved for better navigation and to assist in quickly setting up a deployment."

More Amazon Elastic Container Service cons

"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."

"In the future, I would like to see it generalized and have the ability to better integrate with open-source tools."

"The customization is an area that needs improvement."

"I wasn't very impressed with the documentation."

"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."

"Since the product is fully managed, it is expensive."

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."

"The solution is pricey."

"The product's pricing is good."

"Amazon Elastic 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."

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

"The tool's cost is good."

"The pricing of Amazon EC2 Container Service is average."

More Amazon Elastic Container Service pricing and cost advice

"The costs depend on the resources that you use, and there is a cost-management system to help calculate it."

"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 solution's pricing is reasonable."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

31%

Computer Software Company

16%

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 ...

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

The product's pricing is good.

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 Microsoft Azure Container Service?

The product makes things easier since it's self-managed. Therefore, there is less administration workload and operational costs.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Azure Container Service?

The solution's pricing is reasonable.

What needs improvement with Microsoft Azure Container Service?

Since the product is fully managed, it is expensive.

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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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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.

Microsoft

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Amazon Elastic Container Service vs. Microsoft Azure Container Service