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We performed a comparison between Amazon EKS and Kubernetes 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Amazon EKS vs. Kubernetes Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The solution is easy-to-set up.""Through Amazon EKS, we can have the blue-green deployment very easily.""The solution's Autoscaler option allows for an increase in worker notes whenever particular thresholds are exceeded.""The stability is excellent.""Break down your application into small modules to improve resiliency""AWS cloud services are flexible and have thorough documentation. AWS also has data centers all over the world.""The stability of the solution is good.""We do not have to do a lot of administration, such as create virtual machines, or worry about our controllers or nodes going down because the solution is fully managed by Amazon."

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"I like that it gives you all the flexibility, for example, auto-scaling. Everything is figured out exactly right. It manages all your workloads without much intervention. It can scale in, scale out, and with security. Everything looks pretty good compared to the old legacy way of working.""With the use of our blueprint, my experience with the initial setup has been a ten out of ten where one is difficult and ten is easy.""There are features that come out of the box with Kubernetes, with respect to scaling, reliability, etc. It's the leading container management platform. There are other competing ones, but this is the leading one. It has multiple instances of the application running. If one of them goes down, the other one automatically spins up.""All the current features are quite harmonic.""The autoscaling feature is the most valuable. Kubernetes itself is an orchestration tool. It automatically detects the load, and it automatically spins up the new Pod in the form of a new microservice deployment.""You have different pods that interact with each other, so you can identify problems with one pod and replace it.""I am impressed with the product's coupling of resources and flexibility.""The scalability seems quite good."

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Cons
"I would like Amazon EKS to be easier to configure on various environments like Windows or Linux installations""It is very cumbersome to assign permissions to users to interact with a cluster.""They should include some essential configuration features to it.""I believe the initial setup could be a better experience and faster customer support.""They should enhance the Jira integration.""A cluster is required on-premises, which takes a lot of time.""I would like to see the user interface improved because it is hard to find and not straightforward.""I'd like to see the solution add a service catalog."

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"Kubernetes can improve pod escalation.""The tool needs to improve its UI. The tool is very complex and basic.""The initial setup of Kubernetes is difficult. However, if you are used to the flow then it is easier. The length of time it takes for the implementation depends on the project.""There is not a large ecosystem surrounding Kubernetes, making it difficult to identify the right problem due to the vast number of solutions.""The management needs to be improved.""We would to have additional features related to security within the API, instead of needing to install add-ons.""The security of the solution is in its infancy and needs a lot of work.""The setup and operation of the product should be simplified."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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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  • "The management layer is free, which is perfect. You don't need to pay money for the management layer, but in AWS develop service, you need to pay. I think it is €75 per month for the management layer. It is free here, so you can have as many Kubernetes clusters as you need. You are paying just for the workload, that is, for the machine, CPU, memory, and everything."
  • "Kubernetes is open-source."
  • "The solution is affordable."
  • "Kubernetes is open source. But we have to manage Kubernetes as a team, and the overhead is a bit high. Compared with the platforms like Cloud Foundry, which has a much less operational overhead. Kubernetes, I have to manage the code, and I have to hire the developers. If someone has a product, a developer should know exactly what he's writing or high availability, and all those things may differ the costs."
  • "There are no licensing fees."
  • "There is no licensing fee."
  • "In addition to Kubernetes, you have to pay for support."
  • "The solution requires a license to use it."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
    Top Answer:The product is available at such a huge scale in the market since the resources that are offered under the tool are competitively priced and available at a much cheaper rate compared to other… more »
    Top Answer:When it comes to Amazon EKS, there are IAM permissions and RBAC. When you create an IAM user, you give the privileges on the cluster level, but there won't be anything inside the clusters. In the… more »
    Top Answer:The most valuable features of Kubernetes have been autoscaling and its resilience mechanisms.
    Top Answer:Microsoft provides reasonable costs for Kubernetes.
    Top Answer:The platform could be more convenient to use. While the Kubernetes CLI is powerful, the interface needs to be improved. The users often navigate between various third-party IDEs. Thus, a more… more »
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    Also Known As
    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
    K8
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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.

    Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
    It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community.

    Sample Customers
    GoDaddy, Pearson, FICO, Intuit, Verizon, Honeywell, Logicworks, RetailMeNot, LogMeIn, Conde Nast, mercari, Trainline, Axway
    China unicom, NetEase Cloud, Nav, AppDirect
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company26%
    Financial Services Firm26%
    Comms Service Provider21%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Insurance Company8%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company28%
    Retailer13%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Government7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business32%
    Midsize Enterprise26%
    Large Enterprise42%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise73%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise56%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise63%
    Buyer's Guide
    Amazon EKS vs. Kubernetes
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon EKS vs. Kubernetes and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Amazon EKS is ranked 2nd in Container Management with 37 reviews while Kubernetes is ranked 4th in Container Management with 67 reviews. Amazon EKS is rated 8.6, while Kubernetes is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon EKS writes "Can be used to implement and create clusters, but assigning permissions to users is difficult". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kubernetes writes "Container orchestrator that deploys our machine learning solutions". Amazon EKS is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Rancher Labs, Linode and HashiCorp Nomad, whereas Kubernetes is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Google Kubernetes Engine, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE, OpenShift Container Platform and HPE Ezmeral Container Platform. See our Amazon EKS vs. Kubernetes report.

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