We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Container Service and Google Container Engine based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware and others in Container Management."Overall, it is a user-friendly and efficient tool for managing containers."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service serves the function it's supposed to serve."
"It's quick and easy to have the solution working."
"Amazon ECS allows users to deploy and manage container applications like microservices or web applications on Amazon clusters. It's easy to install and designed for AWS targets, serving as a serverless container platform. It offers features such as automatic scanning, load balancing, and service discovery to help users manage their container applications."
"The solution is quite scalable and allows you to launch multiple EC2s within minutes."
"The most valuable feature, after using Amazon EC2 Container Service for two years, is to set the availability and also for network throughput."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"In seven years, we have not faced a single second of downtime."
"The tool is very powerful, scalable, and easy to manage. Its autoscaling features helped us save costs."
"EC2 is not self-explanatory enough."
"Sometimes, the instances fail under the ECS container cluster, and we have to manually go and find out the black sheep in the ECS container instance. We had an issue earlier where one of the instances under the ECS container cluster went down, and we were not able to identify that instance. The instance got terminated, but a new instance did not come up. Therefore, I had to manually get that instance up. It could be optimized better. In production, we normally cannot sustain such things. It can be optimized in terms of instances, durability, and serving the requests of customers."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service needs to improve the menu design. It needs to improve deployment with better documentation."
"After the load balancer gets attached to Amazon Elastic Container Service clusters, I can't modify, remove, or replace it later."
"There is room for improvement in the licensing costs. There can be better licensing costs."
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service’s initial setup is a bit difficult."
"The orchestration of the workloads running in ECS needs improvement."
"Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products."
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Amazon Elastic Container Service is ranked 8th in Container Management with 46 reviews while Google Container Engine is ranked 14th in Container Management with 1 review. Amazon Elastic Container Service is rated 8.4, while Google Container Engine is rated 8.0. 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 Google Container Engine writes "Has autoscaling features that helps to save costs ". Amazon Elastic Container Service is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, Microsoft Azure Container Service, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Google Kubernetes Engine and Linode, whereas Google Container Engine is most compared with .
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