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."It is a highly stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The product's most valuable feature is service discovery functionality. It is an excellent feature impacting cost reduction."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"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 most valuable feature is the volume size they offer."
"For Amazon EC2 Container Service, providing the ability for users to select specific processor, memory, disk, and interface types might be an ideal feature. But, the practicality of offering all possible physical combinations is nearly impossible due to the underlying physical machines. AWS and Azure organize options into groups based on essential components like powerful processors or critical interfaces, considering physical restrictions. While expanding these choices is conceivable, it may not be feasible from a financial and practical perspective. Customers generally comprehend this limitation, as even in their own data centers, exact physical machine requirements are often a result of a combination of factors such as price, availability, and new machine generations."
"For me, the best feature of ECS is Fargate because I don't have to manage anything. Instead, everything is managed by AWS and all I have to do, in essence, is configure my containers and deploy them."
"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 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."
"The product makes things easier since it's self-managed. Therefore, there is less administration workload and operational costs."
"Microsoft Azure Container Service has a good level of stability."
"The most valuable feature is that you don't have to maintain the infrastructure."
"It's a great product if you are in a Microsoft environment."
"Visualization is the most important feature."
"For Amazon EC2 Container Service, providing the ability for users to select specific processor, memory, disk, and interface types might be an ideal feature. But, the practicality of offering all possible physical combinations is nearly impossible due to the underlying physical machines. AWS and Azure organize options into groups based on essential components like powerful processors or critical interfaces, considering physical restrictions. While expanding these choices is conceivable, it may not be feasible from a financial and practical perspective. Customers generally comprehend this limitation, as even in their own data centers, exact physical machine requirements are often a result of a combination of factors such as price, availability, and new machine generations."
"It's a complex tool and should be simplified."
"The orchestration of the workloads running in ECS needs improvement."
"Support could be better with response time and knowledge of staff."
"After the load balancer gets attached to Amazon Elastic Container Service clusters, I can't modify, remove, or replace it later."
"I think that it would help if the vendor provided more use cases and explanations as to how ECS can be utilized."
"The solution could provide more reliability."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service should include more enterprise project management features, typically available in an OpenShift environment."
"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."
"I wasn't very impressed with the documentation."
"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."
"The customization is an area that needs improvement."
"In terms of the container strategy, they need to make it more compliant with the Linux OS."
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Amazon Elastic Container Service is ranked 1st in Containers as a Service (CaaS) with 46 reviews while Microsoft Azure Container Service is ranked 2nd in Containers as a Service (CaaS) with 7 reviews. Amazon Elastic Container Service is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure Container Service is rated 8.2. 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 Microsoft Azure Container Service writes "Reliable, expandable and great for Microsoft-heavy environments". Amazon Elastic Container Service is most compared with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Google Kubernetes Engine and Linode, whereas Microsoft Azure Container Service is most compared with . See our Amazon Elastic Container Service vs. Microsoft Azure Container Service report.
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