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Amazon Elastic Container Service vs Google Cloud Run comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Elastic Container Se...
Ranking in Container Management
12th
Ranking in Containers as a Service (CaaS)
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
53
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Google Cloud Run
Ranking in Container Management
14th
Ranking in Containers as a Service (CaaS)
5th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
2.2
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

AG
Lead Developer at Virtual Restaurant Solutions
Starts strong with functionalities but reveals cost limitations
The main challenge with Amazon Elastic Container Service is the significant learning curve. Everything mentioned took months to understand. It is not for the faint of heart. Though they have graphical interfaces and numerous dashboards that help create all the services graphically, learning to use Bash can be challenging. Because these are headless servers by nature, there is no graphical interface. It is not similar to Windows where you can hit the start button and look for your program, or Mac where you can look for programs on your desktop. Instead, users must understand this new paradigm of a Linux headless server, which requires using command-based prompts for builds and development.
Vyas Shubham - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Quality Analyst at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Serverless containers have transformed how we deploy microservices and event-driven workloads
There are a few areas that could be improved. We have experienced cold start latency because when scaling from zero, the first request is slow. It also impacts user experience for real-time applications. The improvement we require is faster cold starts or smarter pre-warming options. There are also limitations with long-running workloads. It is not ideal for very long or always-running processes, and request timeouts are somewhat restrictive. The improvement we want is better support for persistent workloads without workarounds. We have also identified improvements needed in debugging and observability complexity because logs and monitoring are available, but they feel scattered at times, and debugging distributed microservices is harder. The improvement we require is more unified and developer-friendly debugging tools.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"As a user, I am mostly on the technical side in a techno-managerial role, so it becomes easy for me to host something onto Amazon Elastic Container Service; the onboarding time for Amazon Elastic Container Service is easy and there are all sorts of pre-baked templates to use."
"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."
"Our platform stability has rated from 97%, 98% to 99.99% and we are pretty much happy with the stability of Amazon Elastic Container Service."
"Overall, it is a user-friendly and efficient tool for managing containers."
"The containerization is a valuable feature for us."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its scalability."
"The solution is easy to scale and implement and provides performance monitoring and management tools."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service is more stable."
"In Google Cloud Run, we are mainly using the feature where we can directly pull images from Docker Hub."
"Google Cloud Run has positively impacted our organization by saving us five thousand dollars per month based on scheduling our infrastructure from nine p.m. to nine a.m. for shutdown and starting, as well as stopping the MongoDB clusters."
"Google Cloud Run is a very good tool that I use for deploying applications; its ease of deployment, auto scaling features, and resource optimization are very nice features that help individuals deploy their apps and solutions into the cloud without any hiccups."
"Google Cloud Run and the Google Cloud environment positively impact my organization by providing almost 99.9% availability for applications, which instills confidence in the organization and users by reducing the dependency on the physical network and allowing access to applications and data."
"Google Cloud Run has positively impacted my organization in numerous ways, such as significant cost efficiency and reduced overhead since we only pay for the resources that we use."
"Google Cloud Run has impacted my organization positively through faster deployment and development, where developers can deploy applications quickly without worrying about infrastructure, push the app live with just containers, speed up time to market significantly, launch features faster and iterate more often, pay only when code runs without maintaining idle servers, reduce cloud costs dramatically for applications with low or unpredictable traffic, automatically scale based on traffic spikes to handle sudden loads without manual intervention so our business does not lose users during peak hours, and let developers focus on business logic instead of DevOps."
 

Cons

"Currently, when scaling with Amazon Elastic Container Service, I have to choose between monitoring CPU or memory usage to scale up or scale out; there is no option to monitor both simultaneously."
"It's a complex tool and should be simplified."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service's security can be improved."
"After the load balancer gets attached to Amazon Elastic Container Service clusters, I can't modify, remove, or replace it later."
"The solution needs to improve backup and pricing."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service needs to improve the menu design. It needs to improve deployment with better documentation."
"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."
"Since it is a managed service for container orchestration, it may limit our control over certain infrastructure functions."
"There are a few areas that could be improved. We have experienced cold start latency because when scaling from zero, the first request is slow."
"One area where Google Cloud Run could be better is the cold start; when a container scales, it starts from zero and takes a moment to boot up before it can serve the request."
"There are a few areas where Google Cloud Run could improve."
"When it starts from idle to full run, it scales slowly, causing slowness in the service deployed; sometimes some of the APIs fail to respond."
"If speaking about improvements for Google Cloud Run, I think they could reduce the cold starts and manage to configure a set number of minimum instances to keep the instances in a warm phase."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"If you want to scale without the traditional methods, the solution is a bit cost-effective."
"The pricing is good."
"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."
"The product's pricing is good."
"The tool's cost is good."
"Although AWS has successfully captured over 60 percent of the market in the cloud part, the tool is competitively way cheaper for the resources it provides compared to the other solutions."
"We have to pay a monthly licensing fee for Amazon EC2 Container Service."
"The tool's licensing is monthly."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
15%
Construction Company
14%
Outsourcing Company
7%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business29
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise21
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon EC2 Container Service?
I am not certain about potential improvement areas for Amazon. However, I think the UI should be enhanced to better visualize things.
What is your primary use case for Amazon EC2 Container Service?
Amazon Elastic Container Service is used for hosting different applications in a container environment. It makes it somewhat easy to host applications, and as one of the AWS-provided solutions, it ...
What advice do you have for others considering Amazon EC2 Container Service?
I combine Checkmarx, Infosec, and AWS solutions. I work with Amazon solutions such as Amazon Elastic Container Service, Kubernetes, and some of the AI solutions, including Bedrock; these are some o...
What needs improvement with Google Cloud Run?
If speaking about improvements for Google Cloud Run, I think they could reduce the cold starts and manage to configure a set number of minimum instances to keep the instances in a warm phase. Addit...
What is your primary use case for Google Cloud Run?
In my day-to-day work, I use Google Cloud Run for managing and running cluster and containerized applications on the Google Kubernetes Engine and Google Console. I have created multiple application...
What advice do you have for others considering Google Cloud Run?
If any organization has a lot of load on their Google Kubernetes Engine or on Google Cloud, they can easily switch to Google Cloud Run and should start using it because it will help them in many wa...
 

Also Known As

Amazon ECS, Amazon EC2 Container Service
Google Cloud Functions, Google Run, GCF
 

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Sample Customers

Ubisoft, GoPro, TIBCO, Remind
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