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Amazon Elastic Container Service vs Microsoft Azure Container Service comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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 Containers as a Service (CaaS)
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
Container Management (7th)
Microsoft Azure Container S...
Ranking in Containers as a Service (CaaS)
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Containers as a Service (CaaS) category, the mindshare of Amazon Elastic Container Service is 27.3%, down from 37.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure Container Service is 21.2%, down from 33.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Containers as a Service (CaaS) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Amazon Elastic Container Service27.3%
Microsoft Azure Container Service21.2%
Other51.5%
Containers as a Service (CaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

FABIO NAGAO - PeerSpot reviewer
Horizontal scaling is streamlined when deploying modern workloads
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. This limitation makes it challenging to define a balanced scale-out automation since a well-written software should balance between processing and memory.
Charles Daou - PeerSpot reviewer
A nice hybrid solution that offers good visualization and an easy setup
It could be faster. The speed is not good in our country. The migration process takes a long time. We don't have fast internet services, and that slows us down. Standard support could be more helpful and responsive. We'd like to have more stable updates. It updates too often. Instead of updating more often, they should update less often and offer very stable updates.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Amazon Elastic Container Service makes horizontal scaling easy and is especially effective when working under the ECS service."
"The containerization is a valuable feature for us."
"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."
"We use the product for website and email database hosting."
"ECS is a useful platform."
"I like Amazon EC2 Container Service's elasticity."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service serves the function it's supposed to serve."
"Once you get the procedure right, and set a pattern, it just works."
"It's a great product if you are in a Microsoft environment."
"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 features are that it is simple, and the compression of the data."
"The most valuable feature is that you don't have to maintain the infrastructure."
"Microsoft Azure Container Service has a good level of stability."
"Visualization is the most important feature."
"The product makes things easier since it's self-managed. Therefore, there is less administration workload and operational costs."
 

Cons

"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 existing domain-joined capability the solution provides during the initial boot-up of the compute should be streamlined and made a little robust."
"While it is generally stable, there have been some issues, especially when working on client projects where troubleshooting was needed."
"The solution's user experience and management are really bad."
"The solution could provide more reliability."
"There is room for improvement in the licensing costs. There can be better licensing costs."
"The solution needs to be more usable."
"They could provide easier options for third-party integrations similar to internal AWS services."
"In terms of the container strategy, they need to make it more compliant with the Linux OS."
"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."
"In the future, I would like to see it generalized and have the ability to better integrate with open-source tools."
"The customization is an area that needs improvement."
"Standard support could be more helpful and responsive."
"I wasn't very impressed with the documentation."
"Since the product is fully managed, it is expensive."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the product's pricing an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service has a decent price, which is neither cheap nor expensive."
"There is no need to pay anything towards the licensing costs of Amazon EC2 Container Service."
"The solution is pricey."
"Our client is paying between $400 and $500 USD per month for this service."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service's price is good."
"We have to pay a monthly licensing fee for Amazon EC2 Container Service."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price, I rate Amazon EC2 Container Service’s pricing a four or five out of ten."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
27%
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business26
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise18
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise4
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon Elastic Container Service?
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 ...
What needs improvement with Amazon Elastic Container Service?
The solution must improve backup and compatibility around OS like Windows and Mac.
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Also Known As

Amazon ECS, Amazon EC2 Container Service
MS Azure Container Service
 

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