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Amazon EKS vs Spot comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon EKS
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
67
Ranking in other categories
Container Management (2nd), Container Security (15th)
Spot
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (31st), Server Virtualization Software (15th), Cloud Operations Analytics (1st), Cloud Analytics (4th), Compute Service (11th), Containers as a Service (CaaS) (5th), Cloud Cost Management (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Amazon EKS and Spot aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Amazon EKS is designed for Container Management and holds a mindshare of 11.8%, down 14.0% compared to last year.
Spot, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Analytics, holds 18.2% mindshare, up 5.8% since last year.
Container Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Amazon EKS11.8%
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform19.7%
VMware Tanzu Platform12.1%
Other56.4%
Container Management
Cloud Analytics Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Spot18.2%
IBM Turbonomic25.3%
Oracle Big Data Cloud Service Compute Edition13.4%
Other43.1%
Cloud Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

Sameer Mirza - PeerSpot reviewer
Managed service ensures efficient monitoring and security with outstanding scalability
Amazon EKS's self-healing nodes help minimize administrative burdens in my organization by automating through all of Amazon EKS. We have used multiple types of automation tools which we directly integrate for the deployment purpose of the Amazon EKS cluster. We have integrated them with the Docker side of Amazon EKS, allowing the container service to run over there, so it is directly deployed for the administrative level of the Amazon EKS cluster. The benefits I have seen from Amazon EKS include a fully managed Kubernetes service for the control plane, the API server level, etcd scheduler, and controller. There's no need to worry about patching, scaling, and maintaining the master node. There is high availability over multiple availability zone control panels, and security compliance is guaranteed for IAM; AWS IAM users authenticate and access the control from the support VPC isolation and security group network policy. The integration with IAM helps enhance our authentication process because IAM basically helps with access. Nobody can enter with any kind of access, and any kind of vulnerability will be showing in my application. If I set an IAM user to that Amazon EKS cluster, that user will have limited access, and that application will run through that IAM user only. It is very beneficial, and for security purposes, it's also important because vulnerabilities will be found and block all the vulnerability and security issues if you set an IAM user to the Amazon EKS cluster with limited access.
Manpreet_Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Used to manage Kubernetes infrastructure, but it doesn't have support from OCI
Spot Ocean is deployed on the cloud in our organization. I would recommend the solution to other users. You need to have an experience with Kubernetes, or else this product is of no use. It is not difficult to learn to use Spot Ocean. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"You can save in terms of time because you can raise up a cluster or more nodes, and you can raise up the storage of the particular node in a few minutes."
"The most important aspect of Amazon EKS is that it is easy to set up and very easy to upgrade."
"EKS provides autoscaling functionality."
"The main benefits that I received from using Amazon EKS are that it is a managed cluster and offers simplicity."
"Overall Amazon EKS is a good solution in the industry. The solution can support multi tendencies, and network isolations are the key factors."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The biggest advantages of Amazon EKS include load balancing, auto scalability, and platform integration."
"The best feature I found in Amazon EKS is ease of implementation; I'm not very knowledgeable about video software and had to learn it quickly for this specific project, and I found it very easy to implement."
"The solution helps us to manage and scale automatically whenever there is a limit to the increase in the application workflow."
"The solution offers both block access and file access, making it a nice solution for customers."
 

Cons

"I would like to see the user interface improved because it is hard to find and not straightforward."
"There is room for improvement for Amazon EKS because we initially had some issues getting the logging out of it, since what they're providing into CloudTrail is what we get."
"I think the monitoring part and observability part could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in making Amazon EKS less error-prone when writing on the YAML file."
"I am not impressed with the tool's Amazon console. It also needs to add security features."
"It is very cumbersome to assign permissions to users to interact with a cluster."
"I'm having difficulty getting my AWS clusters to communicate with my local machine."
"The documentation part of the product is an area of concern that needs to be made easier from an improvement perspective."
"There are no particular areas for improvement I can identify."
"The solution doesn't have support from OCI, and it should start working to onboard OCI."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Amazon EKS’s pricing is ok compared to its competitors."
"The solution's pricing is fair enough and a little less costly."
"The price could be cheaper. I would rate it as seven out of ten."
"I rate Amazon EKS’s pricing a nine out of ten."
"The product pricing depends on the specific requirements."
"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 solution is cheaper than one of its competitors."
"Amazon EKS is not a cheap solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
21%
Computer Software Company
11%
Insurance Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
20%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise31
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon EKS?
The product's most valuable features are scalability, observability, and performance.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon EKS?
Regarding the cost of Amazon EKS, I would say it's relative to the organization based on release management processes; for big organizations where customer experience matters, such as in the retail...
What needs improvement with Amazon EKS?
One area I observed during setup was that while managing it through CLI and Terraform, there are many possibilities for setup and infrastructure updates. However, I believe the console experience c...
What do you like most about Spot Ocean?
The solution helps us to manage and scale automatically whenever there is a limit to the increase in the application workflow.
What needs improvement with Spot Ocean?
There are no particular areas for improvement I can identify.
What is your primary use case for Spot Ocean?
Spot by NetApp is primarily used for backup and also for Fiservware.
 

Also Known As

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
Spot Ocean, Spot Elastigroup, Spot Eco
 

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Sample Customers

GoDaddy, Pearson, FICO, Intuit, Verizon, Honeywell, Logicworks, RetailMeNot, LogMeIn, Conde Nast, mercari, Trainline, Axway
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