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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) vs. Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

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    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

    Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ARed Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is a comprehensive service that offers fully managed OpenShift clusters, on IBM Cloud platform. It is directly integrated into the same Kubernetes service that maintains 25 billion on-demand forecasts daily at The Weather Company.N/A
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    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
    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)Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    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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    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
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    IBM
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
    Red hat Openshift had a better user interface by far. Amazon EKS's was so basic it was essentially useless. We had to use a separate tool called lens to get basic stuff done. Lens was buggy and didn't work as well though, even for basic functionality like updating a K8s secret.
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
    For our particular use case, Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud was very cost-competitive. We already had RHEL, OpenShift, and Ansible skills that translated to the service. From a feature and function perspective, most solutions have a parity but being open source and less chance …
    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)Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
    7.4
    7 Ratings
    Security and Isolation9.06 Ratings8.77 Ratings
    Container Orchestration8.55 Ratings8.27 Ratings
    Cluster Management7.86 Ratings7.17 Ratings
    Storage Management8.03 Ratings6.97 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization7.35 Ratings7.47 Ratings
    Discovery Tools7.34 Ratings6.96 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks8.56 Ratings7.46 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery8.46 Ratings7.57 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging8.26 Ratings6.87 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    8.0
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (4 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)