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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) vs. Kubernetes

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

44 Reviews and Ratings

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170 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

    Kubernetes

    Score9.3 out of 10
    		N/AKubernetes is an open-source container cluster manager.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)Kubernetes
    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)Kubernetes
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    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)Kubernetes
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    EKS is like a full-featured Kubernetes on AWS. ECS is a proprietary container orchestration service by AWS. ECS is much simpler to learn & use. It has built-in tight integration with other AWS services as well. Some key considerations: EKS is like Kubernetes; if …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    EKS is a Kubernetes technology and you need to learn Kubernetes and build a cluster before using it. So there's a learning curve here. ECS was easier to implement and simpler to have in our use case. It takes less time to run a workload and make it available.
    Incentivized
    Scott Kennedy
    Director, eCommerce Analytics and Digital Marketing in Marketing at Franklin Sports (Sporting Goods, 201-500 employees)
    Chose Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    The comparison between Amazon ECS versus Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for us came down to the other services already in motion. A lot of companies tend to go really deep with a particular vendor (Amazon, Google, Microsoft etc) and we were already using a bunch of Amazon …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    I chose Amazon ECS over Amazon EKS and other products because the whole infrastructure was decided to be designed on AWS cloud and Amazon ECS made it easier to make the clusters live in just a few minutes. Amazon ECS has better integration with other AWS services and we don't …
    Incentivized
    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
    Kubernetes
    Verified User
    Chose Kubernetes
    Most of the required features for any orchestration tool or framework, which is provided by Kubernetes. After understanding all modules and features of the K8S, it is the best fit for us as compared with others out there.
    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)Kubernetes
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Kubernetes
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    Kubernetes
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    Security and Isolation9.06 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Container Orchestration8.45 Ratings9.53 Ratings
    Cluster Management7.86 Ratings9.53 Ratings
    Storage Management8.03 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization7.35 Ratings7.53 Ratings
    Discovery Tools7.34 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks8.56 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery8.46 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging8.26 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)Kubernetes
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    9.5
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)