We performed a comparison between Google Container Engine and Microsoft Azure Container Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google and others in Containers as a Service (CaaS)."The tool is very powerful, scalable, and easy to manage. Its autoscaling features helped us save costs."
"Microsoft Azure Container Service has a good level of stability."
"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."
"Visualization is the most important feature."
"It's a great product if you are in a Microsoft environment."
"The most valuable feature is that you don't have to maintain the infrastructure."
"The product makes things easier since it's self-managed. Therefore, there is less administration workload and operational costs."
"Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products."
"In the future, I would like to see it generalized and have the ability to better integrate with open-source tools."
"Since the product is fully managed, it is expensive."
"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."
"I wasn't very impressed with the documentation."
"Standard support could be more helpful and responsive."
"The customization is an area that needs improvement."
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Google Container Engine is ranked 3rd in Containers as a Service (CaaS) with 1 review while Microsoft Azure Container Service is ranked 2nd in Containers as a Service (CaaS) with 7 reviews. Google Container Engine is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Azure Container Service is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Google Container Engine writes "Has autoscaling features that helps to save costs ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Container Service writes "Reliable, expandable and great for Microsoft-heavy environments". Google Container Engine is most compared with , whereas Microsoft Azure Container Service is most compared with Amazon Elastic Container Service.
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