We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Container Service and Rancher Labs 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."The production environment is highly available, which nowadays is a requirement for all of the big companies."
"I like the per-second billing."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service is more stable."
"It has helped our organization greatly and especially on weekends because we have many transactions as our users are buying some kind of tools and paying online."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon EC2 Container Service is its flexibility."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service serves the function it's supposed to serve."
"The containerization is a valuable feature for us."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service has multiple valuable features like load balancers and autoscalers."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."
"A great UI with very good integrations."
"Rancher Labs is a very user-friendly tool."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an open-source solution that is easy to deploy."
"This solution is not vendor-locked, which means that we we are able to use it across all of our resources; this feature is of great value to us."
"The product is simple to use for a beginner."
"The scalability potential is very good."
"The most valuable feature is its comprehensive support, easy resource scaling, compatibility with various OEMs, and seamless service integration."
"The pricing could be a bit better."
"There is room for improvement in the licensing costs. There can be better licensing costs."
"The solution can still be expensive, even with per-second billing."
"It's a complex tool and should be simplified."
"We noticed a problem where our container doesn't always run, and the traffic in our secured license exceeds 100%, leading to increased container costs. We are working to understand and reduce this traffic to control costs."
"Since it is a managed service for container orchestration, it may limit our control over certain infrastructure functions."
"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."
"Billing is extremely complex."
"We'd like their monitoring tool to be integrated by default."
"We have found that the auto-secure feature of this solution doesn't always work, and could be improved to be more reliable, particularly when working with business critical applications."
"We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated."
"The biggest room for improvement in Rancher Labs would be to have a proper upgrading plan."
"The solution could improve by adding more features in the dashboard, such as monitoring, scanning, and security. This would be a great benefit."
"One area for improvement in Rancher Labs is the development aspect."
"There needs to be an improvement in observability and microservice monitoring tools in Rancher Labs."
"They should improve application visibility along with code visibility."
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Amazon Elastic Container Service is ranked 8th in Container Management with 46 reviews while Rancher Labs is ranked 5th in Container Management with 13 reviews. Amazon Elastic Container Service is rated 8.4, while Rancher Labs is rated 8.4. 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 Rancher Labs writes "An easy-to-use user interface, which makes it easy to work with Kubernetes and containers". Amazon Elastic Container Service is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, Microsoft Azure Container Service, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Google Kubernetes Engine and Linode, whereas Rancher Labs is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, OpenShift Container Platform, Amazon EKS, Docker and Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE. See our Amazon Elastic Container Service vs. Rancher Labs report.
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