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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers.

    $0

    per hour per GB

    AWS CodeArtifact

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAWS CodeArtifact is a fully managed artifact repository service that aims to make it easy for organizations of any size to securely store, publish, and share software packages used in their software development process. CodeArtifact can be configured to automatically fetch software packages and dependencies from public artifact repositories so developers have access to the latest versions.N/A

    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

    Score8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is a managed Kubernetes offering, delivering user tools and built-in security for rapid delivery of applications that users can bind to cloud services related to IBM Watson®, IoT, DevOps and data analytics. As a certified K8s provider, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides intelligent scheduling, self-healing, horizontal scaling, service discovery and load balancing, automated rollouts and rollbacks, and secret and configuration management. The Kubernetes…N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)AWS CodeArtifactIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Editions & Modules
    AWS Fargate Launch Type Model
    Spot price: $0.0013335. Ephemeral Storage Pricing: $0.000111
    per hour per storage
    Amazon EC2 Launch Type Model
    Free
    Amazon ECS on AWS Outposts
    Free
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)AWS CodeArtifactIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsThere is no additional charge for Amazon ECS. You pay for AWS resources (e.g., Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon EBS volumes) you create to store and run your application. You only pay for what you use, as you use it; there are no minimum fees and no upfront commitments.
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)AWS CodeArtifactIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Considered Multiple Products
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    We like Elastic Containers better because of the simplicity to create an application without losing control over it. It is simple, yet powerful, exposing only the parts that are needed without complicating the access to the nuts and bolts when more complicated adjustments are …
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    Amazon AWS
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    IBM
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Well, as we were in a state to compulsory implement this service, but then it is very suited for deployment of a service that has higher fault tolerance. And maintaining the lifecycle of custom made resources. And the ability to integrate other services also
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    We decided to give IBM a chance due to their initial on-boarding incentives, but we are very happy with our decision to leverage that opportunity.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    We did not select IBM Cloud Kubernetes over the others. Our objectives are to support each cloud vendor and be professional with our expertise and advice. IBM Cloud is a major enterprise vendor that we must support for our business.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    It's User friendly and simple to create CI CD jobs
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
    25 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
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    28 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)AWS CodeArtifactIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and AWS CodeArtifact and IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    1% below category average
    AWS CodeArtifact
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    8.1
    20 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Security and Isolation9.06 Ratings00 Ratings8.120 Ratings
    Container Orchestration8.45 Ratings00 Ratings8.520 Ratings
    Cluster Management7.86 Ratings00 Ratings7.820 Ratings
    Storage Management8.03 Ratings00 Ratings8.020 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization7.35 Ratings00 Ratings8.020 Ratings
    Discovery Tools7.34 Ratings00 Ratings7.819 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks8.56 Ratings00 Ratings7.720 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery8.46 Ratings00 Ratings8.418 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging8.26 Ratings00 Ratings8.220 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Kubernetes
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)AWS CodeArtifactIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (86 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (15 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)AWS CodeArtifactIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    Amazon ECS is well suited for the scenarios where you want to deploy a microservice to a cloud and instead of manually specifying instance size, number of instances and then specifying the configurations and connecting it with other cloud services like database service, secret manager service etc., you just want to specify these configurations as a file and using that file, the ECS would deploy the service and keep it healthy. It might be less suited for a scenario when you don't want to stick to AWS specific solution for your microservice deployment. The ECS configuration file is specific to AWS ECS and may not be useful for other cloud providers like Azure etc.
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    Amazon AWS
    We have a small team with limited resources and it worked well for us. Hence I can conclude that AWS Code Artifact are well suited for organizations which have limited resources in terms of hardware and access to administrators for setting up artifact repository in-house. AWS Code Artifact is also suited particularly well for organization(s) which are already using AWS Services/Infrastructure (eg. EC2) . It works quite well with existing AWS services and completes the gap which existed in AWS offering for quite some time. Organizations can move their entire DevOps toolchain and infrastructure to Amazon. It is less appropriate for organization(s) which rely on artifacts like Debian, C/C++, Go etc as AWS does not support those fully.
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    IBM
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service also stands out in environments where the workloads vary continuously and require befitting scale. The product excels particularly in microservices structures, wherein the companies would harness the capacity for container orchestration and automated scaling. Still, it may face the challenges due to monolith applications that have not been originally developed for using container technology.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • One of the biggest advantages is the flexibility to change underlying EC2 instances. As the traffic or demand increases, we can easily change EC2 instances without any issues.
    • Amazon ECS APIs are extremely robust and one can start and stop containers by firing one post request only. So, it is not mandatory to keep the demo solutions up for every time. Just at the time of demo fire the command - make the container up and running - do the demo - down the container with API. A simple portal can control every container which helps non-technical (sales, marketing) to do the demo without keeping the solutions up for the entire time frame.
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    Amazon AWS
    • Code Artifact is a cloud based artifact repository so there is no installation required.
    • Code Artifact comes with out of the box security. Using RBAC and encryption
    • Total cost of usage is less than setting up in-house servers
    • It is accessible from any where.. so no additional network setup is required.
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    IBM
    • IBM has a strong focus on serverless and Kubernetes. This shows in the platform. Deploying containers to Kubernetes was very easy.
    • Deploying a Kubernetes cluster through the GUI is very easy and quick. On top of that, IBM Cloud offers a single node cluster for Free.
    • Container Registry is a very good product for managing container images. Integration with Kubernetes was seemless.
    • Portability. To transition from Google Cloud Kubernetes to IBM Cloud Kubernetes took almost no effort. We mostly use the CLI and the standard tools such as kubectl were present.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Another AWS Service - While AWS has a service for just about everything, that is also a negative point. There is no service that does 4 out of 4 things you need. This service does 3 out of 4, another service does the fourth thing you need and another two things that the other service does.
    • With AWS things in general, it's really hard to remain cloud agnostic. Keep that in mind.
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    Amazon AWS
    • CodeArtifact does not support packages like debian. It will be nice to see them support that.
    • Does not provide security scanning of the packages
    • Lacks support for third party CI/CD toolchain like Jenkins
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    IBM
    • I constantly get this error even when everything is well configured prefect.exceptions.AuthorizationError: [{'path': ['auth_info'], 'message': 'AuthenticationError: Forbidden', 'extensions': {'code': 'UNAUTHENTICATED'}}]
    • Then sometimes the error disapear without changine anything, happened twice to me. Should there be an issue with the authentication service? Please let's improve or let users know why this may be happening.
    • Improve the UX in the browse console when removing many images at once
    • UX on the process of installing KeyCloack operator
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
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    Amazon AWS
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    IBM
    We have our application running on a CentOS compartment on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. We have been utilizing the help since IBM Cloud initially dispatched. We liked the adaptability and versatility that IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service give us. Since we are tiny, the Kubernetes administration is just utilized at present inside my venture bunch.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    Aside from some ECS-specific terms to learn at first, learning & starting to use ECS is relatively straightforward. AWS docs on the topic are also of high quality, with sound & relevant examples to follow. Troubleshooting container issues is also a breeze thanks to CloudWatch integration & helpful error messages on the AWS console.
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    Amazon AWS
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    IBM
    We actually haven't had any real problems in our clusters recently and the results we have gotten from adopting IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service have been beyond even our greatest expectations. The community has helped optimize the use of the system and make it relatively simpler to use.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Amazon AWS
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    Amazon AWS
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    IBM
    IBM's cloud is almost infallible.
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    Performance
    Amazon AWS
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    Amazon AWS
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    IBM
    IBM's cloud has a site in my conuntry (MEXICO) so the network latency was almost 0
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    Support is relatively good, although the documentation sometimes is lacking, as well as outdated in our experience, especially when we initiated the process of using this service. But once we found how to assemble things, we haven't really required support from anyone at AWS, the service works without problems so we haven't had the need to contact support, which speaks well of how ECS is built.
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    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    The self-guided support was solid, and there are plenty of online videos to guide first time users, but I think one area of improvement is a faster way to transfer a large quantity of files from our local machine to the cloud for storage (Aspera)
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    Online Training
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Online training is really an important resource for using these tools. IBM's help center is rich in useful information and tips. Also, external guides and tutorials are available (e.g. on youtube), but I followed only IBM ones and I had no difficulties.
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    Implementation Rating
    Amazon AWS
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    Amazon AWS
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    IBM
    Ease of use. Very intuitive. We have been looking for a product that allows us to orchestrate our docker containers in a way where it allows us to effectively scale our applications to production. It also provides us a way of monitoring all our infrastructure in a very clear concise way.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    I chose Amazon ECS over Amazon EKS and other products because the whole infrastructure was decided to be designed on AWS cloud and Amazon ECS made it easier to make the clusters live in just a few minutes. Amazon ECS has better integration with other AWS services and we don't have to look for plugins to do the things, everything is available and can be configured from the AWS console.
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    Amazon AWS
    AWS CodeArtifact is an excellent choice for organization(s) which are looking to move their infrastructure and devops toolchain to Amazon. It is very useful for teams/organizations on limited budget or do not want to take on infrastructure and maintenance costs associated with the artifact repository. Other software solutions require resources for setting up and need ongoing maintenance.
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    IBM
    We mainly selected [IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service] because IBM fabric blockchain service is mostly compatible with it. To have all the infrastructure in a single cloud to get the best output we selected the [IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service].
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    Scalability
    Amazon AWS
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    Amazon AWS
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    IBM
    IBM's CKS does not offers automatic autoscaling nor vertical scaling (automatic). Other services like Google Kubernetes Engine scales up and down very well
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Easy to manage as it has an orchestrator to manage the containers.
    • Less costs and more flexibility with Fargate.
    • Negative (tied to AWS, so could not easily integrate other tools like running a Redis cluster. Still, it works but not easily like Kubernetes.
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    Amazon AWS
    • Overall CodeArtifact has positive ROI on the our team. We had limited budget for procurement of server/administrators. With CodeArtifact we were able to get some savings.
    • We were able to deliver faster hence customers were quite happy. That led to customer satisfaction
    • We didnt have to invest on maintaining network infrastructure/uptime and security. That saved us quite a bit of hassle and funds.
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    IBM
    • Increased development speed and agility allows to build features faster and more economically.
    • Improved resource utilization helps keep applications running very efficiently, which saves on cloud service expenses.
    • Scalability and resilience allows for scaling up or down based on demand, which keeps applications running efficiently and more economically.
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