Founder at Druansh
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
Scalable and easy-to-configure solution
Pros and Cons
  • "It is a stable solution."
  • "The solution's cost could be cheaper."

What is our primary use case?

We use the solution to deploy and manage containerized applications.

What is most valuable?

The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to integrate well with Azure Active Directory, Azure DevOps, and other Azure products. Also, it is easy to use and configure.

What needs improvement?

The solution's cost could be cheaper. Also, it is challenging to integrate the solution with different cloud services apart from Azure. They should improve these particular areas.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been the solution for a few months.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable.

How was the initial setup?

The solution's initial setup process is straightforward. They provide proper documentation with steps required for deployment. It takes a few hours to complete.

What about the implementation team?

Our in-house team executes deployment for basic applications. We need help from experts for complex implementations of the solution.

What was our ROI?

The solution's ROI depends on the use cases.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

It is an expensive solution.

What other advice do I have?

I recommend the solution to others and rate it as an eight.

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Student at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
Real User
A highly-commendable solution for microservices
Pros and Cons
  • "The tool is budget-friendly."
  • "There are some limitations with the tutor version, particularly in terms of using a lot of free audio. The private level also has restrictions, limiting the number of audio files you can access to just 50. If you want more, you need to contact support."

What is our primary use case?

We use it for microservices. 

What is most valuable?

The tool is budget-friendly.

What needs improvement?

There are some limitations with the tutor version, particularly in terms of using a lot of free audio. The private level also has restrictions, limiting the number of audio files you can access to just 50. If you want more, you need to contact support.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for the past year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The tool is highly-stable. I haven’t faced any problems with it. I rate the stability as a ten out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is highly-scalable. I rate it a nine out of ten. We use it once a week or a month based on the requirements.

How are customer service and support?

The support is helpful.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have used Cisco Cloud.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was easy and quick. We set up AKS within ten minutes. We required around three to four people for deployment. I rate it an eight out of ten.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I like the pricing and find it to be in the mid-range, and I would rate it as five out of ten.

What other advice do I have?

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Microsoft Azure
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Consultant Specialist at Birlasoft IndiaLtd.
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
Excellent, fast scalability, ongoing satisfied company culture, with quality features
Pros and Cons
  • "I have enjoyed working with all the features."
  • "I would like to see the stability get more synchronized."

What is our primary use case?

Our primary use case is for deploying the Docker images, which we are working on.

What is most valuable?

I have enjoyed working with all the features.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see the stability get more synchronized.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for the past eight or nine months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Sometimes the cluster is just hung up for some time. Maybe the services are just in a syncing state. They are not regularly syncing it via Argo CD. These are some of the issues we have faced. We have not faced this every day, but from time to time maybe twice a month.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

There is good scalability in the current environment. We have currently around one thousand using the solution.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is complex for me.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We are using Microsoft tools and that is why we went ahead with the Microsoft company culture.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Senior Principal Solution Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
Easy-to-use platform with efficient portability features
Pros and Cons
  • "The product’s most valuable features are ease of use and automation."
  • "The product’s cost could be reduced."

What is our primary use case?

We use the platform to host various solutions.

What is most valuable?

The product’s most valuable features are ease of use and automation. Along with that, it has efficient scalability and portability. We can port container images across additional platforms.

What needs improvement?

The product’s cost could be reduced.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using Azure Kubernetes Service for three to four years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is a stable platform. We rarely encounter any downtime. However, from an infrastructure perspective, its stability depends on the application's self-healing capabilities.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We are an enterprise company using the product. We have thousands of Azure Kubernetes Service users.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support services are good. We may only sometimes get the right answer. We can escalate the case depending on the severity.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We also use AWS EKS.

How was the initial setup?

The product is easy to deploy. We have made the process automated using DevOps. The number of engineers required to execute the implementation depends on the use cases of particular projects the DevOps team is working on. The product supports zero downtime maintenance, including upgrades and patching.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The product is expensive in terms of scalability. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate Azure Kubernetes Service an eight out of ten. It is expensive to scale the number of nodes.

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Associate Principal at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
Real User
A comprehensive container solution that is easily scalable as required
Pros and Cons
  • "We find the container orchestration tool that this solution provides to be very valuable."
  • "This is a fairly expensive solution, which can make it prohibitive for smaller organizations."

What is our primary use case?

We use this solution for microservices and migration purposes.

How has it helped my organization?

This solution allows us to use Azure Arc as an integrated tool for development.

What is most valuable?

We find the container orchestration tool that this solution provides to be very valuable.

What needs improvement?

This is a fairly expensive solution, which can make it prohibitive for smaller organizations.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been working with this solution for one year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have found this solution to be very stable during our time using it.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This product is easily scalable.

How was the initial setup?

The initial set up of this solution was very straightforward, and the deployment only took a few minutes to complete.

What about the implementation team?

The solution was implemented by our in-house team.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

There are multiple options for how to pay for this product, including a pay as you go option, and there is also one year or three year reserved pricing available.

What other advice do I have?

We would advise companies to research all available options for the functionality they require, as this is a fairly expensive solution.


I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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System Engineer (Devops) at PT.Prima Sarana Solusi
Real User
Top 5
Helps with cloud native migrations but needs to improve UI and cost
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable features of AKS are rollback updates, high availability, easy management, speedy execution and deployment."
  • "The solution should improve its UI and cost."

What is our primary use case?

We use AKS for cloud-native migrations. 

What is most valuable?

The most valuable features of AKS are rollback updates, high availability, easy management, speedy execution and deployment. 

What needs improvement?

The solution should improve its UI and cost. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with the product for three years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the product's stability a ten out of ten. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I rate AKS' scalability a ten out of ten since it's on the cloud. My company has less than 100 users for AKS. 

How was the initial setup?

The tool's setup is straightforward and takes less than one day to complete. You need one to two resources to handle the deployment. 

What about the implementation team?

The tool's deployment can be done in-house. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

You pay for what you use. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate the product an eight out of ten. 

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
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Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
A strong tool to deploy and manage containerized applications, with an easy to use UI
Pros and Cons
  • "We like how easy it is to create the resources in this solution, thanks to how easy the UI is to use."
  • "We would like to see the addition of a service report from the server for this solution, so that we can monitor the health of server operations."

What is our primary use case?

We use this solution to create multiple clusters and multiple services then scale them, as well as to build network security services around our containers.

What is most valuable?

We like how easy it is to create the resources in this solution, thanks to how easy the UI is to use.

Command replication is also very easy in this solution.

What needs improvement?

We would like to see the addition of a service report from the server for this solution, so that we can monitor the health of server operations. 

The monitoring functions should be more better in this solution as a whole, as currently the logging is difficult to understand, which makes it difficult to find issues in production.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been working with this solution for nearly three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability of this solution is very good.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This is a very easily scalable solution in our experience.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support for this solution is good, and we rely on them a lot.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup of this solution is a bit complex.

What other advice do I have?

We would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

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Operations Team Lead at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
A user-friendly solution helpful in decentralizing all access policies
Pros and Cons
  • "The setup was straightforward and it took one hour to deploy."
  • "The technical support could be faster."

What is our primary use case?

All our microservices are deployed with Azure Kubernetes Service.

What is most valuable?

RBAC is useful for us to decentralize all access policies. We have a lot of features on the cloud. Azure is more user-friendly compared to AWS and GCP. 

What needs improvement?

The technical support could be faster and they should improve it.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using this solution for four years and it is a cloud solution.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is a stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is a scalable solution. All our end users use this solution and we have plans to increase the usage. We need at leasr two members to maintain and they have intermediate level knowledge and are engineers.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support is good and I rate them a six out of ten.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We did not use other container security products before AKS.

How was the initial setup?

The setup was straightforward and it took one hour to deploy. We did not need any help with deployment.

What other advice do I have?

I rate this solution an eight out of ten. I recommend the solution because other cloud solutions are delayed compared to this.

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