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

7.6

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

"The containerization is a valuable feature for us."

"Once you get the procedure right, and set a pattern, it just works."

"Amazon Elastic Container Service is more stable."

"We use the product for website and email database hosting."

"The tool's most valuable feature is the ability to create revisions on the configurations."

"The cloud services are readily available."

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

"Scalability and availability are the most valuable features of Amazon Elastic Container Service."

More Amazon Elastic Container Service pros

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Visualization is the most important feature."

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

Cons

"The solution could provide more reliability."

"My company has faced some stability issues with Amazon EC2 Container Service."

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

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

"Probably, they should include automated graphing, and monitoring solutions."

"I rate the platform's stability an eight out of ten. It easily dies."

"Support could be better with response time and knowledge of staff."

"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."

More Amazon Elastic Container Service cons

"The customization is an area that needs improvement."

"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."

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

"In terms of the container strategy, they need to make it more compliant with the Linux OS."

"Standard support could be more helpful and responsive."

"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

"Amazon Elastic Container Service has a decent price, which is neither cheap nor expensive."

"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."

"Amazon EC2 Container Service is an expensive solution."

"The tool's cost is good."

"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."

"There is no need to pay anything towards the licensing costs of Amazon EC2 Container Service."

"I don't know the exact amount we were charged for our use of ECS, but I do know that it can be costly, especially when there is a bug or an error caused by default configurations."

"The tool's licensing is monthly."

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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33%

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15%

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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

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.

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Amazon Elastic Container Service vs. Microsoft Azure Container Service