Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Alternatives

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1. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

By Amazon Web Services (AWS)

4.6

Our journey with Amazon ECS has been overwhelmingly positive, leading to a high recommendation and satisfaction rating. I would rate my overall experience with Amazon ECS as excellent. A couple of years ago, we made the strategic decision to transition to AWS, driven by the desire to leverage containerized services as extensively as possible. As one of the decision-makers, I was able to guide many of these choices. We ultimately selected ECS because of its "good mix of usability and scalability". A key factor in our selection was that ECS is a "very proven, very well documented, very well understood service from AWS". This provided a significant level of comfort from a business standpoint, as our existing staff were already familiar with AWS services, and I was confident that we could easily hire new team members who would also be proficient with it. It struck the right balance, being "not an outdated tech and it wasn't a bleeding edge tech" that would necessitate finding a highly niche specialist. Furthermore, the "cost, the pricing model and the cost were very easy to estimate", offering clear insight into our needs and the associated expenses in a pay-for-what-you-use cloud environment. This financial transparency was a major advantage. When evaluating solutions, we juxtaposed ECS against Kubernetes. As the CTO of a small and growing company, I recognized that Kubernetes, while offering "a lot of capabilities and a lot of complexity," and providing "customization and in really deep control" for larger organizations where I had previously utilized it, was not the ideal fit for our current structure. For our small company, I needed "the comfort and reliability of a more simple model". This choice also influenced our hiring strategy; I sought individuals who were comfortable in smaller companies, rather than those from "gigantic scale ups or from larger enterprise companies" accustomed to Kubernetes' inherent complexity. Therefore, the decision for ECS was deeply correlated with both the technical service's capabilities and the type of company and individual we intended to hire. The internal adoption of ECS was remarkably smooth. The excellent nature of containerization services, including ECS, lies in "the ability to have a development environment that can ultimately be used in a lot of different production containerization solutions". This meant our development environment was "not really disrupted". We only required one person on our team to dedicate "a week or two" to learn how to bridge the gap between local containers, such as Docker Desktop, and getting our containers built and deployed in ECS. Consequently, I did not have to train the entire team upfront. Adoption was "very easy because it's well documented," allowing one person to get deeply up to speed, and then, "over the next month everybody else was able to basically read the documentation and converse about the process," leading to "very organic, very internal training oriented" adoption. Measuring ROI is always a complex endeavor, but we have successfully "been able to continue to hit kind of our cost estimates". We have not encountered any "unforeseen issues," and our "upfront justification and planning has borne out success with ECS". We consider our ROI achieved because our estimates regarding time, complexity, and cost have "aligned with the reality". Crucially, we have avoided "production outages," "unforeseen costs," or the need to "panic, hire an experts to fix some odd issue". Our ability to "staff up train and implement on schedule" signifies that we have met our ROI objectives. Regarding scalability, ECS performs admirably with our business growth. We have not needed to make any upgrades, expansions, or modifications to the core service post-implementation. A significant advantage of ECS is that AWS undertakes "the vast majority of core infrastructure maintenance and monitoring and upgrades". This allows us to focus entirely on "monitor our own our applications that run inside them," which is a core strength of the platform. This means we "don't have to think about a lot of those, a lot of the upgrades and maintenance cost or complexity". Our decision to purchase ECS was primarily driven by the goal of "improving business process outcomes" and "creating internal operation efficiencies". Key factors that drove this decision included "financial organisational viability" and "product functionality and performance".Read all insights and reviews for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

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2. AWS Fargate

By Amazon Web Services (AWS)

4.6

Our overall experience has been smooth as a small startup, as it lets us run ECS tasks without worrying about provisioning or maintaining EC2 instances. It integrates very well with our existing AWS stack as well. It's a good booster at the start, but costs can spike with long-running workloads Read all insights and reviews for AWS Fargate

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3. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

4.5

My overall experience with Google Kubernetes Engine has been very positive. GKE makes managing Kubernetes clusters much easier than running them on-prem or manually in the cloud.Read all insights and reviews for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

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4. VMware Tanzu Platform

By Broadcom (VMware)

4.4

VMWare Tanzu Platform offers strong Kubernetes management and scalability, but its complexity is challenging. Especially for the initial setup and integrations, but luckily the documentation is clear.Read all insights and reviews for VMware Tanzu Platform

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5. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

4.6

AKS helps automate and scale enterprise business solutions across domains and regions with ease. It comes with a simplified managed interface for users across clusters who are pre-validated and provided with access via a managed identity resource platform.Read all insights and reviews for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

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6. SUSE Rancher

4.5

SUSE have been fantastic to work with, our working relationship is strong and they have always delivered on the promises that they have made to us. Highly rate the account management and support. Support is also fantastic, they are knowledgeable and deliver exceptional levels of outcomes Read all insights and reviews for SUSE Rancher

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7. Portainer

4.8

Extremely easy to implement, easy to use UI and a must for both personal and professional use.Read all insights and reviews for Portainer

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8. Huawei Cloud Container Engine

4.6

Together with Huawei, we have had a great experience using CCE. This has allowed us to deploy our artifacts while Huawei handles the entire orchestration layer. The nodes in Huawei can scale up and down elastically. Huawei has enabled us to accelerate our time to market and take advantage of the benefits of portability and scalability, providing a high degree of flebilibity. Our microservices have performed well, and for us, the use of Kubernetes has been seamless. Read all insights and reviews for Huawei Cloud Container Engine

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