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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) vs. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers.

    $0

    per hour per GB

    AWS Elastic Beanstalk

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AAWS Elastic Beanstalk is the platform-as-a-service offering provided by Amazon and designed to leverage AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

    $35

    per month

    Pricing
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Editions & Modules
    AWS Fargate Launch Type Model
    Spot price: $0.0013335. Ephemeral Storage Pricing: $0.000111
    per hour per storage
    Amazon EC2 Launch Type Model
    Free
    Amazon ECS on AWS Outposts
    Free
    No Charge
    $0
    Users pay for AWS resources (e.g. EC2, S3 buckets, etc.) used to store and run the application.
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsThere is no additional charge for Amazon ECS. You pay for AWS resources (e.g., Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon EBS volumes) you create to store and run your application. You only pay for what you use, as you use it; there are no minimum fees and no upfront commitments.
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a good beginner level orchestration service but lacks container management and scaling capabilities.
    EC2 is again not a Managed cloud service. It is like just renting a computer on cloud and then managing it on our own.
    Compared to these ECS is a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    We like Elastic Containers better because of the simplicity to create an application without losing control over it. It is simple, yet powerful, exposing only the parts that are needed without complicating the access to the nuts and bolts when more complicated adjustments are …
    Incentivized
    Amazon AWS
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    -
    Ratings
    Security and Isolation9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Container Orchestration8.45 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cluster Management7.86 Ratings00 Ratings
    Storage Management8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization7.35 Ratings00 Ratings
    Discovery Tools7.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks8.56 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery8.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging8.26 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    -
    Ratings
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    7.9
    29 Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings8.119 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings7.229 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings8.128 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings7.223 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings8.128 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings8.128 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings7.228 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings8.129 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings8.128 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings9.126 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings8.127 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    7.2
    (29 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)