We compared Amazon EKS and OpenShift Container Platform based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Amazon EKS is praised for its strong integration with AWS services, seamless scaling, security measures, and simple Kubernetes cluster management. Users appreciate the reliable and flexible application deployment. On the other hand, OpenShift Container Platform is recognized for its seamless system integration, resource management, security measures, and application scalability. Both platforms offer competitive pricing and flexible licensing, excellent customer support, and positive ROI. Areas for improvement in Amazon EKS include documentation and cost optimization, while OpenShift could enhance its user interface, system performance, resource management, and language support.
Features: Some valuable features of Amazon EKS include seamless integration with AWS services, efficient scaling capabilities, user-friendly interface, strong security measures, excellent customer support, and simplified management. On the other hand, OpenShift Container Platform stands out for its seamless integration with existing systems, efficient resource management, robust security measures, versatile customization options, and ease of scaling applications.
Pricing and ROI: Amazon EKS has positive feedback on its pricing, setup cost, and licensing. Users appreciate competitive pricing, easy setup, and no significant costs. OpenShift Container Platform also receives positive feedback on reasonable pricing, straightforward setup, and flexible licensing., Compared to OpenShift Container Platform, Amazon EKS users have reported increased efficiency, cost savings, valuable resource optimization, and seamless deployment. OpenShift Container Platform users have praised its improvements in resource utilization, scalability, efficiency, and cost savings, resulting in increased productivity and revenue growth. Both platforms optimize operations and enhance business performance.
Room for Improvement: Amazon EKS could improve its documentation and tutorials, as well as enhance scalability and optimize costs. OpenShift Container Platform should focus on UI enhancements, system performance improvements, resource management, and supporting more programming languages.
Deployment and customer support: According to user reviews, the duration required for setting up and implementing a new tech solution in Amazon EKS is mentioned as a week for both deployment and setup phases. On the other hand, OpenShift Container Platform shows a significant variation in time, ranging from three months for deployment and an additional week for setup, to just a week for both deployment and setup. Context is important to consider., Amazon EKS excels in customer service with prompt and helpful assistance, excellent communication, and efficient problem-solving. OpenShift Container Platform also receives positive feedback, with promptness, responsiveness, and effective solutions.
The summary above is based on 62 interviews we conducted recently with Amazon EKS and OpenShift Container Platform users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Provides high performance and easy manageability."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the cluster engine."
"Break down your application into small modules to improve resiliency"
"It's the best option for medium or large enterprises."
"Amazon EKS is like Kubernetes, but it helps manage our nodes and scalability in AWS."
"EKS provides autoscaling functionality."
"Initial setup is straightforward. It only takes 15 minutes to deploy."
"More tools are available in OpenShift Container Platform to maintain and manage the clusters."
"The most valuable feature for me in the OpenShift Container Platform is the option to manage different containers and environments and also being able to switch among them."
"The architecture is the best. The solution is scalable if you are on a container-based solution."
"OpenShift provides tools that tell me everything I have on a container, and I can make it on-premise or on a cloud infrastructure."
"The usability and the developer experience. The platform has a centralized consultant that is easy to use for our development, operations and security teams."
"The best feature is the management for the port life cycle, which automatically recycles, pulls, and scales up and down based on needs and requests."
"On OpenShift, it's easy to scale applications. We can easily scale up or scale down."
"It is very lightweight and can be deployed very fast, especially when it comes to containers."
"They should enhance the Jira integration."
"Amazon EKS needs to improve customer operations and technical support."
"I would like to see the user interface improved because it is hard to find and not straightforward."
"They need to work on the Amazon plugins on the Kubernetes cluster."
"I'm having difficulty getting my AWS clusters to communicate with my local machine."
"They could add logging features. At present, we use external tools to increase and decrease the number of instances."
"Amazon EKS is predominately public. However, the government has started to have a lot of interest in Kubernetes and is receiving more education on Kubernetes and Amazon EKS. If we can have the security of Amazon EKS align with the security that is set out by the government it would be much better."
"The overall stability of the product should be improved to prevent any loss of data."
"The initial setup can be hard."
"We've encountered challenges when transitioning applications between these environments."
"We encounter difficulties while accessing the environment and managing the cluster. This particular area needs improvement."
"The product monitoring tool does not work for us."
"From a networking perspective, the routing capability can be matured further. OpenShift doesn't handle restrictions on what kind of IPs are allowed, who can access them, and who cannot access them. So it is a simple matter of just using it with adequate network access, at the network level."
"OpenShift needs to improve their container storage."
"The product's interface is a bit buggy."
"Container Platform could be improved if we could aggregate logs out of the box instead of having to do it through integrations with other products."
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Amazon EKS is ranked 2nd in Container Management with 39 reviews while Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is ranked 1st in Container Management with 36 reviews. Amazon EKS is rated 8.6, while Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon EKS writes "Supports multiple tools and has a straightforward setup process ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform writes "Provides automation that speeds up our process by 30% and helps us achieve zero downtime". Amazon EKS is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Kubernetes, Rancher Labs, Linode and HashiCorp Nomad, whereas Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE, Amazon Elastic Container Service, Rancher Labs and Kubernetes. See our Amazon EKS vs. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform report.
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