We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Container Service and OpenShift Container Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Container Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution's technical support is good."
"Good documentation and very straightforward to implement and use."
"The most valuable feature is the volume size they offer."
"ECS is flexible and easy to use."
"The solution is simple to access."
"It has an Auto Scaling group feature. We can use this feature to have an Auto Scaling group to specify a minimum and maximum count for all types of configurations. Based on the specified values, Amazon Elastic Container Service scales the required CPU environmental metrics."
"The product's initial setup was very straightforward and not complex."
"The solution is quite scalable and allows you to launch multiple EC2s within minutes."
"Autoscaling is an excellent feature that makes it very simple to scale our applications as required."
"It’s user-friendly."
"The banking transactions, inquiries, and account opening have been the most valuable."
"Dashboards... give us all the details we need to see about the microservices."
"The architecture is the best. The solution is scalable if you are on a container-based solution."
"More tools are available in OpenShift Container Platform to maintain and manage the clusters."
"The auto scalability feature, which is based on smart agendas, determined from pre-prepared rules is the most valuable feature. You can also create different routes for deployment. Deployment types can be provided with an identifier, such as an ARB deployment. This really helped in rolling out releases without disrupting services for the end-users."
"The most valuable feature is that the solution can be deployed in the cloud which removes the expense of a server."
"The orchestration of the workloads running in ECS needs improvement."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing of Amazon EC2 Container Service."
"The solution is expensive compared to other alternatives like Azure."
"I rate the platform's stability an eight out of ten. It easily dies."
"My company has faced some stability issues with Amazon EC2 Container Service."
"The solution needs to be more usable."
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"Since it is a managed service for container orchestration, it may limit our control over certain infrastructure functions."
"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."
"We've encountered challenges when transitioning applications between these environments."
"OpenShift has certain restrictions in terms of managing the cluster when it's running on a public cloud. For example, identity and access management integration with the IM of AWS is quite difficult. It requires some open-source tools to integrate. This is one area where I always see room for improvement."
"It is difficult to deploy the OpenShift cluster in a bare-metal environment."
"The product's interface is a bit buggy."
"I want to see more incorporation of native automation features; then, we could write a code, deploy it directly to OpenShift, and allow it to take care of the automated process. Using this method, we could write one application and have elements copy/pasted to other applications in the development process."
"OpenShift Container Platform is an expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved."
"With the recent trend of cloud-native, fully managed serverless services, I don't see much documentation about how a customer should move from on-prem to the cloud, or what is the best way to do a lift-and-shift. Even if you are on AWS OCP, which is self-managed infra services, and you want to use the ROSA managed services, what is the best way to achieve that migration? I don't see documentation for these kinds of use cases from Red Hat."
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Amazon Elastic Container Service is ranked 8th in Container Management with 46 reviews while OpenShift Container Platform is ranked 1st in Container Management with 36 reviews. Amazon Elastic Container Service is rated 8.4, while OpenShift Container Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon Elastic Container Service writes "An easy to compute solution that can be used to take complete workloads to the cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenShift Container Platform writes "Provides automation that speeds up our process by 30% and helps us achieve zero downtime". Amazon Elastic Container Service is most compared with Microsoft Azure Container Service, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Linode and Google Kubernetes Engine, whereas OpenShift Container Platform is most compared with Amazon EKS, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE, Rancher Labs and Kubernetes. See our Amazon Elastic Container Service vs. OpenShift Container Platform report.
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