We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Container Service and Docker 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."Amazon EC2 Container Service is a flexible product from Amazon. You can put it in the Auto Scaling group for high availability. There are also a lot of choices for pricing."
"Implementing the product has helped me monitor the parameters. I utilize tools like CloudWatch and AWS systems to track these parameters. If any issues arise, I alert our developer team to address and resolve them. The product helps to have a global file system. Also, it helps in data replication from region to region."
"For me, the best feature of ECS is Fargate because I don't have to manage anything. Instead, everything is managed by AWS and all I have to do, in essence, is configure my containers and deploy them."
"I like Amazon EC2 Container Service's elasticity."
"We use the product for website and email database hosting."
"ECS is a useful platform."
"What I really like about Amazon ECS is its simplicity and ease of use. Amazon also has really good security."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"Docker is easy to understand and follow. It provides good scalability to the application."
"The most valuable feature of Docker is that it revolutionized virtualization by providing a new approach with containers that completely nullified the time it used to take to deploy applications on virtual servers, resulting in deployment times that can be as quick as milliseconds, unless it is a heavy application, such as Java. Additionally, resource utilization has greatly improved with Docker, allowing for more resources to be allocated to other tasks. These are a few key features that make Docker a preferred choice."
"The most valuable feature of Docker is automation. When I deploy the solution I am confident it will work anywhere. It is reliable and easy to use."
"The solution is easy to deploy for clients so it saves a lot of hassle."
"The solution is stable."
"Docker creates lightweight applications that are easy to manage and scale."
"I am impressed with the product's independence. We can also deploy it anywhere."
"The current version is quite good with our application."
"I also believe there are limitations in terms of upgrading. The software has the concept of dedicated servers that you can manage. However, an issue arises when you can't match one operating system with another that you've already purchased. You can't simply merge them; instead, you have to buy a completely new one. This limitation has caused some challenges for us."
"The pricing could be a bit better."
"They could provide easier options for third-party integrations similar to internal AWS services."
"The solution could provide more reliability."
"The existing domain-joined capability the solution provides during the initial boot-up of the compute should be streamlined and made a little robust."
"I rate the platform's stability an eight out of ten. It easily dies."
"The solution needs to improve backup and pricing."
"The documentation and usage for the users can be better because for new users it can be very hard to understand and use the solution. They can add small images and accessories."
"I have encountered network issues while connecting with microservices. I want to optimize the application layers over the bucket. It should also have better documentation."
"There is always room for improvement. I often refer to forums such as StackOverflow to learn from other developers' experiences and the challenges they have faced while using Docker."
"Unfortunately, base images are not currently available."
"One item that could be improved is the overall stability of Docker."
"I advise new users to review their website, commands, and the steps for creating images."
"Stability is an area with a shortcoming."
"Docker could improve by having security vulnerability reports."
"It could be easier to create images and save them on reports. Just improved development workflow, just quicker, like some better user experience creating the images for the Docker containers."
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Amazon Elastic Container Service is ranked 8th in Container Management with 46 reviews while Docker is ranked 7th in Container Management with 40 reviews. Amazon Elastic Container Service is rated 8.4, while Docker is rated 8.6. 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 Docker writes "Easy to deploy with an impressive networking feature". Amazon Elastic Container Service is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, Microsoft Azure Container Service, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Linode and Google Kubernetes Engine, whereas Docker is most compared with Mirantis Container Runtime, Rancher Labs, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE and AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). See our Amazon Elastic Container Service vs. Docker report.
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