We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Container Service and Microsoft Defender for Cloud 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."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 the per-second billing."
"The solution is quite scalable and allows you to launch multiple EC2s within minutes."
"The solution has good performance."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The cloud services are readily available."
"The most valuable feature is the volume size they offer."
"The product's most valuable feature is service discovery functionality. It is an excellent feature impacting cost reduction."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The security alerts and correlated alerts are most valuable. It correlates the logs and gives us correlated alerts, which can be fed into any security information and event management (SIEM) tool. It is an analyzed correlation tool for monitoring security. It gives us alerts when there is any kind of unauthorized access, or when there is any malfunctioning in multifactor authentication (MFA). If our Azure is connected with Azure Security Center, we get to know what types of authentication are happening in our infra."
"With respect to improving our security posture, it helps us to understand where we are in terms of compliance. We can easily know when we are below the standard because of the scores it calculates."
"The most valuable feature is that it's intuitive. It's very intuitive."
"The vulnerability reporting is helpful. When we initially deployed Defender, it reported many more threats than we currently see. It gave us insight into areas we had not previously considered, so we knew where we needed to act."
"The entire Defender Suite is tightly coupled, integrated, and collaborative."
"We saw improvement from a regulatory compliance perspective due to having a single dashboard."
"Using Security Center, you have a full view, at any given time, of what's deployed, and that is something that is very useful."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service needs to improve the menu design. It needs to improve deployment with better documentation."
"EC2 is not self-explanatory enough."
"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."
"After the load balancer gets attached to Amazon Elastic Container Service clusters, I can't modify, remove, or replace it later."
"Billing is extremely complex."
"While it is generally stable, there have been some issues, especially when working on client projects where troubleshooting was needed."
"Sometimes, the instances fail under the ECS container cluster, and we have to manually go and find out the black sheep in the ECS container instance. We had an issue earlier where one of the instances under the ECS container cluster went down, and we were not able to identify that instance. The instance got terminated, but a new instance did not come up. Therefore, I had to manually get that instance up. It could be optimized better. In production, we normally cannot sustain such things. It can be optimized in terms of instances, durability, and serving the requests of customers."
"The solution needs to be more usable."
"The initial setup is not actually so complex but it feels complex because there are many add-ons. There are many options and my team needs to be aware of all of these changes happening on the backend which is a distraction."
"Microsoft Defender could be more centralized. For example, I still need to go to another console to do policy management."
"As an analyst, there is no way to configure or create a playbook to automate the process of flagging suspicious domains."
"The product must improve its UI."
"If a customer is already using Okta as an SSO in its entire environment, they will want to continue with it. But Security Center doesn't understand that and keeps making recommendations. It would help if it let us resolve a recommendation, even if it is not implemented."
"Microsoft sources most of their threat intelligence internally, but I think they should open themselves up to bodies that provide feel intelligence to build a better engine. There may be threats out there that they don't report because their team is not doing anything on that and they don't have arrangements with another party that is involved in that research."
"Azure is a complex solution. You have so many moving parts."
"We would like to have better transparency as to how the security score is calculated because as it is now, it is difficult to understand."
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Amazon Elastic Container Service is ranked 8th in Container Management with 46 reviews while Microsoft Defender for Cloud is ranked 10th in Container Management with 46 reviews. Amazon Elastic Container Service is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Defender for Cloud is rated 8.0. 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 Microsoft Defender for Cloud writes "Provides multi-cloud capability, is plug-and-play, and improves our security posture". 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 Microsoft Defender for Cloud is most compared with AWS GuardDuty, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender XDR, Wiz and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. See our Amazon Elastic Container Service vs. Microsoft Defender for Cloud report.
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