Amazon Elastic Container Service vs Microsoft Azure Container Service comparison

"Performance is our top priority. So, if we need to deploy on a high-specification machine, we can choose it from the software. If we just need a low-specification one, we can just choose it based on the requirement handling software configuration."

"For Amazon EC2 Container Service, providing the ability for users to select specific processor, memory, disk, and interface types might be an ideal feature. But, the practicality of offering all possible physical combinations is nearly impossible due to the underlying physical machines. AWS and Azure organize options into groups based on essential components like powerful processors or critical interfaces, considering physical restrictions. While expanding these choices is conceivable, it may not be feasible from a financial and practical perspective. Customers generally comprehend this limitation, as even in their own data centers, exact physical machine requirements are often a result of a combination of factors such as price, availability, and new machine generations."

"We primarily employ the Linux platform in terms of architecture. It utilizes its database, MySQL. Additionally, for CI/CD processes, we rely on Amazon CodeBuild. Furthermore, we use Amazon S3 storage to store specific static files. Currently, the system is running smoothly, and we don't actively perform any maintenance tasks as everything is automated."

"Scalability and availability are the most valuable features of Amazon Elastic Container Service."

"The most valuable feature is the volume size they offer."

"What I really like about Amazon ECS is its simplicity and ease of use. Amazon also has really good security."

"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."

"Amazon EC2 Container Service has multiple valuable features like load balancers and autoscalers."

"Visualization is the most important feature."

"The most valuable features are that it is simple, and the compression of the data."

"The product makes things easier since it's self-managed. Therefore, there is less administration workload and operational costs."

"Microsoft Azure Container Service has a good level of stability."

"Storage is one of the most beneficial features of cloud providers, specifically Azure because when you are working in their cloud environment, you can easily use a storage interface and a storage object that is provided by Microsoft Azure. In a local environment, you have to be involved in establishing and setting up distributed storage file systems for containers which are very difficult and complex. In a cloud environment, you are not concerned about the storage and the dashboard provides you with storage objects with high availability."

"The most valuable feature is that you don't have to maintain the infrastructure."

"It's a great product if you are in a Microsoft environment."

"The solution's pricing could be improved."

"The solution needs to be more usable."

"Visualization is an important factor for me, and I don't think that the visuals within ECS are good enough because it doesn't show you all the details you might need to see at a glance."

"Amazon Elastic Container Service should simplify its management. It can be difficult for someone who doesn't have much experience with the tool. Also, the tool needs to add the ability to manage networks."

"The existing domain-joined capability the solution provides during the initial boot-up of the compute should be streamlined and made a little robust."

"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."

"The solution is expensive compared to other alternatives like Azure."

"The solution needs to improve backup and pricing."

"Since the product is fully managed, it is expensive."

"In the future, I would like to see it generalized and have the ability to better integrate with open-source tools."

"I wasn't very impressed with the documentation."

"In terms of the container strategy, they need to make it more compliant with the Linux OS."

"The customization is an area that needs improvement."

"Standard support could be more helpful and responsive."

"f Microsoft Azure can provide GUI dashboards for end-users and administrators to work separately to manage all the Kubernetes clusters without a need to connect to Azure environments and through CLI it would be better."

"Amazon ECS is expensive."

"I don't know the exact amount we were charged for our use of ECS, but I do know that it can be costly, especially when there is a bug or an error caused by default configurations."

"Amazon EC2 Container Service is an expensive solution."

"The platform is inexpensive."

"Our client is paying between $400 and $500 USD per month for this service."

"The solution is pricey."

"Amazon EC2 Container Service is cheap."

"If you increase the sizes, you incur costs to your accounts."

"The costs depend on the resources that you use, and there is a cost-management system to help calculate it."

"Microsoft Azure Container Service has costs but in the container environment, there are no costs because it is open source and we are using Docker as the container engine in the master and worker nodes established in the Azure environment."

"The solution's pricing is reasonable."