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Azure Container Apps vs Google Kubernetes Engine comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Container Apps
Ranking in Container Management
18th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.1
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Google Kubernetes Engine
Ranking in Container Management
11th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2858520 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Modernization has accelerated cloud migration and now delivers resilient, flexible microservices
I consider the best features offered by Azure Container Apps to be power, event-based scaling, and ease of management. The power of event-based scaling and the ease of management have benefited my team and my projects by allowing the applications to be very flexible since they can scale based on process queue sizes or HTTP requests and for many other reasons such as entries in a Redis cache. Azure Container Apps has positively impacted my organization by making the migration of these applications easier, speeding up these migration processes and achieving greater resilience of the applications in the cloud. I have measured that impact in terms of improvements in resilience, which are very important because we move to having microservices deployed in several availability zones, with autoscaling, and as a result, they are very flexible and very reliable.
ParthasarathyT - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Publicis Sapient
Managed solutions enable efficient handling of web applications and migration projects
Google Kubernetes Engine can be improved by enabling the in-place upgrade of the machine type of an existing node pool since I currently need to destroy and recreate it. There is no feature present where I can upgrade directly, and having more than 1,000 to 2,000 workloads in one node pool makes changing the node pool name difficult for all those workloads. I choose eight out of ten mainly because of the node pool upgrade challenge I mentioned, but also because of the existence of Anthos service mesh, which is the ingress controller available only for the enterprise Kubernetes Engine. It would be beneficial if it could be offered in the normal Kubernetes Engine with any limitations.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Azure Container Apps has positively impacted my organization by making the migration of these applications easier, speeding up these migration processes and achieving greater resilience of the applications in the cloud."
"The solution is available across AWS, GCP and Azure and is seamless."
"Google Kubernetes Engine provides no downtime deployments and everything is scaled well."
"The initial setup process is simpler and more user-friendly than other cloud providers."
"The deployment of the cluster is very easy, as you just click a button or run a simple command and it deploys itself, with Google managing the master, underlying infrastructure, and cluster versioning so updates are smooth and we don't have to handle that overhead ourselves."
"The most valuable aspect of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is its managed nature, which significantly reduces the burden on our platform team."
"GKE is easier to understand and use than Elastic Kubernetes Service."
"The product has valuable security features. It can connect with multiple DevOps tools."
"On the tip of a command, you can scale in or scale out, and it offers every robust platform to implement DevOps processes for your automation solutions. The product fully supports the IaC concept."
 

Cons

"Azure Container Apps could be improved if the Azure RM Terraform provider could have full implementation of all its capabilities since right now it does not."
"The product’s visible allocation feature needs improvement."
"The notifications are not informative."
"It needs to support load balancing."
"I would like to see the ability to create multiple notebook configurations."
"The product's integration with third-party vendors needs improvement."
"The solution does not have a visual interface."
"t is not very stable."
"An area in which Google Kubernetes Engine could improve is configuration."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Its pricing is good. They bill us only per user. That's nice."
"It is competitive, and it is not expensive. It is almost competitive with AWS and the rest of the cloud solutions. We are spending around 3K USD per month. There are four projects that are currently running, and each one is incurring a cost of around 3K USD."
"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."
"Pricing is a bit expensive compared to some other products, but it's acceptable."
"This is an open source solution, so there is no pricing or licensing."
"I would rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten. The tool costs around 3000 dollars per month. There are no additional costs apart from these."
"The pricing for GKE is dependent on the type of machine or virtual machine (VM) that is selected for the nodes in the cluster. There is a degree of flexibility in choosing the specifications of the machine, such as the number of CPUs, GPUs, and so on. Google provides a variety of options, allowing the user to create the desired cluster composition. However, the cost can be quite steep when it comes to regional clusters, which are necessary for high availability and failover. This redundancy is crucial for businesses and is required to handle an increase in requests in case of any issues in one region, such as jumping to a different region in case of a failure in the Toronto region. While it may be tempting to choose the cheapest type of machines, this may result in a limited capacity and user numbers, requiring over-provisioning to handle additional requests, such as those for a web application."
"The solution's price is reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
41%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Media Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Healthcare Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business21
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise17
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Container Apps?
My experience with the implementation cost, pricing, and licensing of Azure Container Apps includes some difficulty with the Azure calculator to obtain the expected costs, but in general, it is a p...
What needs improvement with Azure Container Apps?
Azure Container Apps could be improved if the Azure RM Terraform provider could have full implementation of all its capabilities since right now it does not.
What is your primary use case for Azure Container Apps?
My main use case for Azure Container Apps is application modernization from on-premises to the cloud. A specific example of how I have used Azure Container Apps in one of those modernization projec...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Kubernetes Engine?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Google Kubernetes Engine is straightforward, as I previously indicated. The need for humans is reduced with GCP since there is no need for ...
What needs improvement with Google Kubernetes Engine?
The price could be a bit cheaper. I don't see anything with Google Kubernetes Engine that needs to be improved. I think they are already implementing Kubernetes itself, so they are the owners. Howe...
What is your primary use case for Google Kubernetes Engine?
I use Google Kubernetes Engine for many purposes, most notably for websites, but the websites are microservices. However, some mega projects have many machines that needed to be containerized, so w...
 

Also Known As

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GKE, Google Kubernetes
 

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