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Amazon Elastic Container Service vs Microsoft Azure Container Service comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft are both solutions in the Containers as a Service (CaaS) category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.5, while Microsoft is ranked #2. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 23.4% mindshare in CSC, compared to Microsoft’s 25.0% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.
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100% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Container Service and Microsoft Azure Container Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Containers as a Service (CaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Elastic Container Se...
Ranking in Containers as a Service (CaaS)
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
Container Management (6th)
Microsoft Azure Container S...
Ranking in Containers as a Service (CaaS)
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Containers as a Service (CaaS) category, the mindshare of Amazon Elastic Container Service is 23.4%, down from 37.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure Container Service is 25.0%, down from 32.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Containers as a Service (CaaS) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Amazon Elastic Container Service23.4%
Microsoft Azure Container Service25.0%
Other51.6%
Containers as a Service (CaaS)
 

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.
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PuneetKaura - PeerSpot reviewer
Comprehensive ecosystem enhances development and cost management capabilities
The CI/CD capabilities are important because we do development. We use both development and production on Microsoft Azure. The CI/CD capabilities help in the development process. For the technical side, I would need to get back to some of my programmers, but we use the complete Microsoft Azure side for all of our development work. The CI/CD helps in the complete process for our team. As we move into the use of Microsoft Azure Container Service, it will make us more flexible and probably reduce our costs down the line. They can probably handle peak traffic and other things better than the older way of doing it. Microsoft Azure Container Service helps to optimize resources and save costs by allowing our product to handle it through this containerization method. When there is not too much traffic, we will be able to bring it down to the minimum, which would give us good cost savings. For our usage of Microsoft Azure Container Service, it is already helping us. For improvements, I don't have any recommendations currently because we have just gotten into it. What is available is good for the work we do. Regarding monitoring tools in AKS, we use them and understand how the environments are working through the tools. We use those for analytics and scaling of the environments. They help us in all our environments, and we can look into them. As required, we can downscale, upscale, and perform other operations because of the available tools.
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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 like Amazon EC2 Container Service's elasticity."
"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."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service has multiple valuable features like load balancers and autoscalers."
"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."
"The solution is quite scalable and allows you to launch multiple EC2s within minutes."
"The cloud services are readily available."
"Good documentation and very straightforward to implement and use."
"ECS is a useful platform."
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"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."
"Microsoft Azure Container Service has a good level of stability."
"The most valuable features are that it is simple, and the compression of the data."
"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."
 

Cons

"After the load balancer gets attached to Amazon Elastic Container Service clusters, I can't modify, remove, or replace it later."
"The solution is expensive compared to other alternatives like Azure."
"The product should improve its price."
"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."
"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 solution needs to be more usable."
"The services are costly, which is one potential drawback. Additionally, when it comes to new-age services around AI, particularly in the areas of LLMs and genomics, these services are not fully available in our region's availability domain. These are the areas where improvement is required."
"Billing is extremely complex."
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"In terms of the container strategy, they need to make it more compliant with the Linux OS."
"The customization is an area that needs improvement."
"Standard support could be more helpful and responsive."
"Since the product is fully managed, it is expensive."
"I wasn't very impressed with the documentation."
"In the future, I would like to see it generalized and have the ability to better integrate with open-source tools."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Our client is paying between $400 and $500 USD per month for this service."
"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 pricing is good."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service is an expensive solution."
"They offer a pay-as-you-go pricing model for the product."
"Amazon ECS is expensive."
"The tool's licensing is monthly."
"I rate the product's pricing an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."
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"The solution's pricing is reasonable."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
24%
Computer Software Company
17%
Government
7%
Transportation Company
6%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business27
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise18
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise4
 

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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Also Known As

Amazon ECS, Amazon EC2 Container Service
MS Azure Container Service
 

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
 

Sample Customers

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