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Amazon Elastic Container Service vs Splunk Observability Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 6, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.9
Amazon ECS provides significant cost savings and ROI with reduced server expenses, auto-scaling, and a pay-as-you-go model.
Sentiment score
7.8
Splunk Observability Cloud boosts ROI with enhanced visibility, reducing downtime and enabling faster issue resolution and improved collaboration.
This saving is achieved since, with EC2, the entire virtual machine must be running regardless of workload, whereas Fargate eliminates this cost.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.9
Amazon ECS support is praised for responsiveness and expertise, yet feedback varies due to cost, knowledge gaps, and response times.
Sentiment score
7.4
Splunk Observability Cloud receives high support ratings, though some users rely on in-house expertise and community resources.
We do not rely heavily on technical support from AWS as we have our own teams managing the infrastructure.
Problem resolution typically takes between two and five days, which isn't very helpful.
They did not have a clear answer.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.9
Amazon ECS is highly praised for scalability, handling diverse workloads effectively, with minor regional and autoscaling challenges.
Sentiment score
7.8
Splunk Observability Cloud is praised for scalability, despite some cost concerns and challenges with large data sets.
Scalability becomes an inherent capability in the cloud context, and this service does well in that regard.
Amazon Elastic Container Service has a scalability rating of ten out of ten.
We've used the solution across more than 250 people, including engineers.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.6
Amazon ECS is highly rated for stability and performance, achieving up to 99.99% uptime, with infrequent user-related issues.
Sentiment score
8.3
Splunk Observability Cloud is highly stable, with users praising its reliability, minimal bugs, and quick resolution of minor issues.
The stability of Amazon Elastic Container Service is excellent.
Amazon Elastic Container Service is mostly very stable.
I would rate its stability a nine out of ten.
We rarely have problems accessing the dashboard or the page.
 

Room For Improvement

Amazon ECS needs improved management, user experience, pricing transparency, security, integration, support, auto-scaling, reliability, and intuitive interface.
Splunk Observability Cloud needs better integration, pricing, scalability, customization, and support to improve user experience and expandability.
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.
When it comes to new-age services around AI, particularly in the areas of LLMs and genomics, these services are not fully available in our region's availability domain.
There is room for improvement in the alerting system, which is complicated and has less documentation available.
Customers sometimes need to create specific dashboards, particularly for applicative metrics such as Java and process terms.
 

Setup Cost

Amazon Elastic Container Service offers variable, usage-based pricing, appreciated for cost-effectiveness despite potential regional and configuration-related cost variances.
Splunk Observability Cloud is costly but valued, with variable pricing and potential for discounts or negotiations to reduce expenses.
Our customers often do a trade-off between requiring services at particular SLA levels and being willing to pay a premium price to us as partners.
Amazon Elastic Container Service is quite cheap compared to Google, particularly for hosting databases.
It appears to be expensive compared to competitors.
 

Valuable Features

Amazon Elastic Container Service is scalable, cost-effective, easy to use, with seamless AWS integration and flexible deployment options.
Splunk Observability Cloud integrates data, monitors performance, and enhances visibility with user-friendly dashboards and real-time threat detection.
It inherently offers scalability by default, without our IT teams needing to take the extra load to make the services available for our end users.
Amazon Elastic Container Service makes horizontal scaling easy and is especially effective when working under the ECS service.
For troubleshooting, we can detect problems in seconds, which is particularly helpful for digital teams.
Splunk APM provides a holistic view of the application.
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Elastic Container Se...
Ranking in Container Management
7th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
Containers as a Service (CaaS) (1st)
Splunk Observability Cloud
Ranking in Container Management
8th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (11th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (9th), Cloud Monitoring Software (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Container Management category, the mindshare of Amazon Elastic Container Service is 1.4%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Observability Cloud is 0.5%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Container Management
 

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.
Lakshmi Padaga - PeerSpot reviewer
Collaborates performance metrics with log data to pinpoint the exact cause of issues and offers error detection
Splunk APM is a robust tool with many capabilities. There are always areas for potential improvement to enhance its functionality and user experience. For Splunk APM, there could be simplified navigation, like streamlining the user interface to make navigation more intuitive for our users, especially those new to APM, which can enhance usability. We can provide more customization options for dashboards and visualizations to help users tailor the platform to their specific needs. There could be more integration capabilities with a wider range of third-party tools and platforms would also be beneficial. By focusing on these areas, Splunk APM can enhance its value proposition, improve user satisfaction, and better meet the evolving needs of organizations monitoring their application performance.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
31%
Computer Software Company
16%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
15%
Retailer
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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.
What do you like most about SignalFx?
The most valuable feature is dashboard creation.
What needs improvement with SignalFx?
There is room for improvement in the alerting system, which is complicated and has less documentation available. We sometimes encountered issues in setting up alerts. The custom detector could be m...
What is your primary use case for SignalFx?
The main purpose of using Splunk APM is to optimize our application. We use Splunk APM primarily to understand how the application works, how it uses resources, and its response time in connection ...
 

Also Known As

Amazon ECS, Amazon EC2 Container Service
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Ubisoft, GoPro, TIBCO, Remind
Sunrun, Yelp, Onshape, Tapjoy, Symphony Commerce, Chairish, Clever, Grovo, Bazaar Voice, Zenefits, Avalara
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