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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) vs. IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

44 Reviews and Ratings

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

320 Reviews and Ratings

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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

    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

    Score7.4 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    		IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is a managed Kubernetes offering, delivering user tools and built-in security for rapid delivery of applications that users can bind to cloud services related to IBM Watson®, IoT, DevOps and data analytics. As a certified K8s provider, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides intelligent scheduling, self-healing, horizontal scaling, service discovery and load balancing, automated rollouts and rollbacks, and secret and configuration management. The Kubernetes…N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    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)IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Francisco Javier Castaneda Marroquin
    CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Research & Development at Global Bestlogistics Systems S.A. de C.V. (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
    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
    IBM
    Verified User
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Well, as we were in a state to compulsory implement this service, but then it is very suited for deployment of a service that has higher fault tolerance. And maintaining the lifecycle of custom made resources. And the ability to integrate other services also
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    We decided to give IBM a chance due to their initial on-boarding incentives, but we are very happy with our decision to leverage that opportunity.
    Incentivized
    John Hanley
    Enterprise Architect in Engineering at Hanley (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    We did not select IBM Cloud Kubernetes over the others. Our objectives are to support each cloud vendor and be professional with our expertise and advice. IBM Cloud is a major enterprise vendor that we must support for our business.
    Incentivized
    Naresh B
    Cloud Engineer - DevOps Team at Wipro Technologies (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    It's User friendly and simple to create CI CD jobs
    Incentivized
    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)IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    7.5
    15 Ratings
    Security and Isolation9.06 Ratings7.315 Ratings
    Container Orchestration8.45 Ratings8.115 Ratings
    Cluster Management7.86 Ratings6.415 Ratings
    Storage Management8.03 Ratings7.915 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization7.35 Ratings7.915 Ratings
    Discovery Tools7.34 Ratings7.115 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks8.56 Ratings7.915 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery8.46 Ratings7.314 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging8.26 Ratings7.315 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    7.0
    (80 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.7
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (4 ratings)
    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (15 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)