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Question: What are the basic differences between Amazon EKS and ROSA?
Answer: Here are the main differences between Amazon EKS and ROSA: Amazon EKS is a managed Kubernetes service that makes running Kubernetes on AWS easier. It provides a high-level abstraction for managing Kubernetes clusters, allowing you to focus on developing and deploying your applications. ROSA is a fully managed Red Hat OpenShift service that runs on AWS. It provides a more comprehensive platform than EKS, supporting more features and integrations with other AWS services. If you are looking for a simple and easy-to-use Kubernetes service, then Amazon EKS may be a good option. Considering ROSA may be best if you need a more comprehensive platform with support for more features and integrations. Of course, the best choice will depend on your requirements and other factors, including: Your experience with Kubernetes Specific features you require Your budget
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Pros
"The most valuable feature is the cluster engine.""Break down your application into small modules to improve resiliency""The most valuable feature is the computing speed.""AWS cloud services are flexible and have thorough documentation. AWS also has data centers all over the world.""We haven't faced any major issues in one and a half years of use.""I like its auto-scale feature very much.""Provides high performance and easy manageability.""Amazon EKS is like Kubernetes, but it helps manage our nodes and scalability in AWS."

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"I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten.""It has a feature to automatically scale up or scale down. If my application is running in peak hours, it will automatically increase.""The solution's support and its automation tool that ensures we are secure and appropriately configured are the most valuable features of Azure Red Hat OpenShift.""It supports AKS and other projects like Kubernetes or EKS.""In Kubernetes, when traffic goes out of a pod, it has to have its own IP address. Every service that's going out requires another IP. But with OpenShift, you don't have to deal with any of those IPs because they use NAT.""The most valuable features of the solution are accessibility and scalability."

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Cons
"I would like to see it a little more stable, more operational, and more convenient to develop.""Amazon EKS needs to improve customer operations and technical support.""They need to work on the Amazon plugins on the Kubernetes cluster.""It is very cumbersome to assign permissions to users to interact with a cluster.""I'd like improved traffic handling and additional application details within the system.""I would like Amazon EKS to be easier to configure on various environments like Windows or Linux installations""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.""I would like to see a cloud setup bank management feature."

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"Azure Red Hat OpenShift's support should be improved.""There is room for improvement in terms of orchestration. While Azure orchestration offers valuable features, it's worth noting that it may not match the level of orchestration provided by Kubernetes itself.""The product is expensive.""One of the things to notice is that this product can be expensive.""They need to improve the core licensing model.""Automation could be improved."

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  • "The solution is more expensive than other competitors and does not require a license."
  • "Cloud based pay-as-you-go pricing"
  • "My company paid for the license."
  • "Pricing is dependent upon instance type."
  • "The solution is quite costly and developers will start exploring other solutions or moving their workloads to other clouds if costs aren't reduced."
  • "The price could be cheaper. I would rate it as seven out of ten."
  • "Amazon EKS has fair pricing. It's better in terms of pricing than other platforms."
  • "I would like a cheaper version of it."
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  • "It is expensive compared to a similar product."
  • "Compared to other cloud environments like Amazon or Google, Azure Red Hat OpenShift is an expensive solution."
  • "I rate the product's price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product's most valuable features are scalability, observability, and performance.
    Top Answer:The product pricing depends on the specific requirements. For instance, clients between $3000-$4000 per month might find the pricing reasonable, with clusters priced around $70 to $80 plus additional… more »
    Top Answer:They could add logging features. At present, we use external tools to increase and decrease the number of instances.
    Top Answer:The most valuable features of the solution are accessibility and scalability.
    Top Answer:I rate the product's price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. The product is expensive.
    Top Answer:In terms of the support, improvements would be great. The solution should attempt to offer ease of use to its new users. I would like the product to offer more scalability features.
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    Also Known As
    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
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    Overview

    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a fully managed Kubernetes service. Customers such as Intel, Snap, Intuit, GoDaddy, and Autodesk trust EKS to run their most sensitive and mission critical applications because of its security, reliability, and scalability.

    EKS is the best place to run Kubernetes for several reasons. First, you can choose to run your EKS clusters using AWS Fargate, which is serverless compute for containers. Fargate removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you specify and pay for resources per application, and improves security through application isolation by design. Second, EKS is deeply integrated with services such as Amazon CloudWatch, Auto Scaling Groups, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), providing you a seamless experience to monitor, scale, and load-balance your applications. Third, EKS integrates with AWS App Mesh and provides a Kubernetes native experience to consume service mesh features and bring rich observability, traffic controls and security features to applications. Additionally, EKS provides a scalable and highly-available control plane that runs across multiple availability zones to eliminate a single point of failure.
    EKS runs upstream Kubernetes and is certified Kubernetes conformant so you can leverage all benefits of open source tooling from the community. You can also easily migrate any standard Kubernetes application to EKS without needing to refactor your code.

    Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides highly available, fully managed OpenShift clusters on demand, monitored and operated jointly by Microsoft and Red Hat. Kubernetes is at the core of Red Hat OpenShift. OpenShift brings added-value features to complement Kubernetes, making it a turnkey container platform as a service (PaaS) with a significantly improved developer and operator experience.

    Sample Customers
    GoDaddy, Pearson, FICO, Intuit, Verizon, Honeywell, Logicworks, RetailMeNot, LogMeIn, Conde Nast, mercari, Trainline, Axway
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    Manufacturing Company11%
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    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Government7%
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    Government11%
    Educational Organization9%
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    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise44%
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    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise72%
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    Amazon EKS is ranked 2nd in Container Management with 38 reviews while Azure Red Hat OpenShift is ranked 10th in PaaS Clouds with 7 reviews. Amazon EKS is rated 8.6, while Azure Red Hat OpenShift is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon EKS writes "Supports multiple tools and has a straightforward setup process ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Red Hat OpenShift writes "Runs on every platform; makes it easy to adapt to Kubernetes". Amazon EKS is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Kubernetes, Rancher Labs and Linode, whereas Azure Red Hat OpenShift is most compared with OpenShift, Amazon AWS and VMware Tanzu Application Service.

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