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"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.""They handle the backup process quite well. They automatically encapsulate it, including container backups, without relying heavily on the client's involvement. This is a significant advantage compared to other providers where clients often need to manage the process more independently. It's a feature that I find suitable and beneficial.""The product's initial setup was very straightforward and not complex.""The most valuable feature of Amazon EC2 Container Service is its flexibility.""Amazon Elastic Container Service is more stable.""What I really like about Amazon ECS is its simplicity and ease of use. Amazon also has really good security.""I like Amazon EC2 Container Service's elasticity.""It has helped our organization greatly and especially on weekends because we have many transactions as our users are buying some kind of tools and paying online."

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"The product makes things easier since it's self-managed. Therefore, there is less administration workload and operational costs.""Storage is one of the most beneficial features of cloud providers, specifically Azure because when you are working in their cloud environment, you can easily use a storage interface and a storage object that is provided by Microsoft Azure. In a local environment, you have to be involved in establishing and setting up distributed storage file systems for containers which are very difficult and complex. In a cloud environment, you are not concerned about the storage and the dashboard provides you with storage objects with high availability.""The most valuable feature is that you don't have to maintain the infrastructure.""Microsoft Azure Container Service has a good level of stability.""Visualization is the most important feature.""The most valuable features are that it is simple, and the compression of the data.""It's a great product if you are in a Microsoft environment."

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"The solution needs to be more usable.""The product can become expensive if you don't choose what you want.""It's a complex tool and should be simplified.""For Amazon EC2 Container Service, providing the ability for users to select specific processor, memory, disk, and interface types might be an ideal feature. But, the practicality of offering all possible physical combinations is nearly impossible due to the underlying physical machines. AWS and Azure organize options into groups based on essential components like powerful processors or critical interfaces, considering physical restrictions. While expanding these choices is conceivable, it may not be feasible from a financial and practical perspective. Customers generally comprehend this limitation, as even in their own data centers, exact physical machine requirements are often a result of a combination of factors such as price, availability, and new machine generations.""The solution is expensive compared to other alternatives like Azure.""My company has faced some stability issues with Amazon EC2 Container Service.""We noticed a problem where our container doesn't always run, and the traffic in our secured license exceeds 100%, leading to increased container costs. We are working to understand and reduce this traffic to control costs.""Probably, they should include automated graphing, and monitoring solutions."

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"Standard support could be more helpful and responsive.""I wasn't very impressed with the documentation.""In terms of the container strategy, they need to make it more compliant with the Linux OS.""Since the product is fully managed, it is expensive.""In the future, I would like to see it generalized and have the ability to better integrate with open-source tools.""The customization is an area that needs improvement.""f Microsoft Azure can provide GUI dashboards for end-users and administrators to work separately to manage all the Kubernetes clusters without a need to connect to Azure environments and through CLI it would be better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I don't exactly deal with the pricing. We have a separate Infra team that deals with the pricing. They are more into the scalability part. Based on our requirements, the pricing will increase. The automation teams will test some of the benefits to see how can we can optimize the cost. They'll have a security manager connection and some alerts based upon the usage to see how to reduce the building cost based upon the installations."
  • "Our client is paying between $400 and $500 USD per month for this service."
  • "I don't know the exact amount we were charged for our use of ECS, but I do know that it can be costly, especially when there is a bug or an error caused by default configurations."
  • "The tool's licensing is monthly."
  • "The pricing is good."
  • "The solution's cost could be reduced."
  • "On a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price, I rate Amazon EC2 Container Service’s pricing a four or five out of ten."
  • "The platform is inexpensive."
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  • "The costs depend on the resources that you use, and there is a cost-management system to help calculate it."
  • "Microsoft Azure Container Service has costs but in the container environment, there are no costs because it is open source and we are using Docker as the container engine in the master and worker nodes established in the Azure environment."
  • "The solution's pricing is reasonable."
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    Also Known As
    Amazon ECS, Amazon EC2 Container Service
    MS Azure Container Service
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    Overview

    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS. Amazon ECS eliminates the need for you to install and operate your own container orchestration software, manage and scale a cluster of virtual machines, or schedule containers on those virtual machines.

    Azure Container Service optimizes the configuration of popular open source tools and technologies specifically for Azure. You get an open solution that offers portability for both your containers and your application configuration. You select the size, the number of hosts, and choice of orchestrator tools, and Container Service handles everything else.

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    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company30%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Recruiting/Hr Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company10%
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    Financial Services Firm30%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Computer Software Company13%
    Government8%
    Media Company8%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business52%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise31%
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    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise73%
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    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise50%
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    Small Business32%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise56%

    Amazon Elastic Container Service is ranked 1st in Containers as a Service (CaaS) with 46 reviews while Microsoft Azure Container Service is ranked 2nd in Containers as a Service (CaaS) with 7 reviews. Amazon Elastic Container Service is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure Container Service 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 Microsoft Azure Container Service writes "Reliable, expandable and great for Microsoft-heavy environments". Amazon Elastic Container Service is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Linode and Google Kubernetes Engine, whereas Microsoft Azure Container Service is most compared with .

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