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Attribute Ratings
- Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
- Google Kubernetes Engine is rated higher in 1 area: Support Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
94%
6 Ratings
8.4
Google Kubernetes Engine
84%
7 Ratings
Usability
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
N/A
0 Ratings
9.0
Google Kubernetes Engine
90%
2 Ratings
Support Rating
8.6
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
86%
7 Ratings
8.9
Google Kubernetes Engine
89%
6 Ratings
Professional Services
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
N/A
0 Ratings
9.0
Google Kubernetes Engine
90%
1 Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is well suited where you need the ease of managing the clusters by letting AWS do the stuff for you. Obviously, whenever you want to run the docker based workloads, it is always better to go for either AWS ECS or AWS EKS. If you are interested in staying at AWS only and don't want to be cloud-agnostic, then go for AWS ECS instead of AWS EKS. AWS ECS is cheaper than AWS EKS and also more managed by AWS and better integrated with other AWS services. If you want to run those workloads as serverless, then AWS ECS Fargate is the best option to go with. If you already have a Kubernetes based setup that you want to migrate to AWS, then go for AWS EKS instead of AWS ECS.
DevOps Engineer
CallSign (Pvt.) Ltd.Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees
Google Kubernetes Engine
The Google Kubernetes Engine clusters are very good at being a managed cloud K8s platform - lots of documentation, features, and updates are available. It's also newbie-friendly - for both administrators and developers. Unfortunately, currently, it cannot reach true zero scale - thus, costs (rent for the service) are still involved even if you are barely using it.Thankfully, it's possible to have alternatives in Google Cloud:
- Your own K8s cluster on Compute Engine VMs - you manage it completely; it will have access to a lot of Google Cloud services.
- Cloud Run cluster - less documented but more flexible
- Anthos clusters - you can use this service for a lot of types of K8s clusters - Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Run, on-prem, AWS, Azure
DevOps Team Leader
CognyteInformation Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees
Pros
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
- 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.
Senior Solutions Architect
InfostretchInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees
Google Kubernetes Engine
- It's super easy to get started - to creating a cluster to deploying your applications to it
- Dead simple container orchestration and networking which can all be managed by yaml code
- Support for docker
- Auto scaling, upgrades and repairs of nodes in the cluster
- Built-in application monitoring and logging using StackDriver
- Automatic service discovery and DNS
- Kubernetes is built and supported by Google
Senior PHP Full Stack Developer
CloudSEKInternet, 51-200 employees
Cons
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
- A cleaner container service road map
- It would be. nice to have more AI recommended cluster reductions
- The UX could use some simplification
Director, eCommerce Analytics and Digital Marketing
Franklin SportsSporting Goods, 201-500 employees
Google Kubernetes Engine
- Not as intuitive as it could be
- Documentation could be better, especially for people using other Google Cloud tools
- Not the preferred Kubernetes Engine for many apps

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 51-200 employeesPricing Details
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0.0,013,335 per hour per GB
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Editions & Modules
Edition
AWS Fargate Launch Type Model | Spot price: $0.0013335. Ephemeral Storage Pricing: $0.0001111 |
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Amazon EC2 Launch Type Model | Free |
Amazon ECS on AWS Outposts | Free |
- per hour per storage
- none
Additional Pricing Details
There 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.Google Kubernetes Engine
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0.0,445 vCPU-hr Autopilot Mode
Google Kubernetes Engine Editions & Modules
Edition
Autopilot Mode - Regular Price | $0.04451 |
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Autopilot Mode - Regular Price | $0.00492252 |
Autopilot Mode - Regular Price | $0.00005483 |
Autopilot Mode - Spot Price | $0.01334 |
Autopilot Mode - Spot Price | $0.00147675 |
Autopilot Mode - Spot Price | $0.00005486 |
Autopilot Mode - 1 year commitment price (USD) | $0.03560007 |
Autopilot Mode - 1 year commitment price (USD) | $0.00393808 |
Autopilot Mode - 1 year commitment price (USD) | $0.00004389 |
Autopilot Mode - 3 year commitment price (USD) | 0.024475010 |
Autopilot Mode - 3 year commitment price (USD) | 0.002707411 |
Autopilot Mode - 3 year commitment price (USD) | 0.000030112 |
Standard Mode - Free Version | Free13 |
Standard Mode | $0.1013 |
Cluster Management | $0.1014 |
Cluster Management | $74.40 monthly credit15 |
- vCPU Price vCPU-hr
- GKE Autopilot Price GB-hr
- GKE Autopilot Ephemeral Storage Price GB-hr
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- GKE Autopilot Ephemeral Storage Price GB-hr
- GKE Autopilot vCPU Price vCPU-hr
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- GKE Autopilot Ephemeral Storage Price GB-hr
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- GKE Autopilot Ephemeral Storage Price GB-hr
- per hour
- per cluster per hour
- per month per hour
Additional Pricing Details
—Usability
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Google Kubernetes Engine
Google Kubernetes Engine 9.0
Based on 2 answers
- Google Kubernetes Engine has a good UI and documentation that facilitates setup and helps get projects moving along quickly
- Its built-in logging integrations with StackDriver make it easier to monitor the application and log issues quickly
- Automated orchestration, deployment, and scaling of nodes and networking are all easily configurable with yaml files

Verified User
Contributor in Other
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 501-1000 employeesSupport Rating
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) 8.6
Based on 7 answers
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.
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
Global Bestlogistics Systems S.A. de C.V.Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Google Kubernetes Engine
Google Kubernetes Engine 8.9
Based on 6 answers
Very good Kubernetes distribution with a reasonable total price. Integration with storage and load balancer for ingress and services speed up every process deployment.
Cloud Architect
CloudicalComputer Networking, 501-1000 employees
Alternatives Considered
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
If you are using AWS, you will be using Amazon ECS. I have also used Azure Container Instances and it works just as well in Azure as ECS does in AWS. It's really all a matter of what cloud provider you are utilizing. Because of the "Cloud Wars," it's difficult to measure cross-cloud connectivity, but I have had better luck remaining cloud agnostic in other cloud providers than AWS (Azure, GCP). Because of the sheer volume of tooling in AWS and inter-connectivity between them, it's almost easier to be fully AWS if you are using it in any kind of capacity.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Services Company, 501-1000 employeesGoogle Kubernetes Engine
GKE spins up new nodes a LOT faster than AKS. GKE's auto scaler runs a lot smoother than AKS. GKE has a lot more Kubernetes features baked in natively.

Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development
Computer & Network Security Company, 11-50 employeesProfessional Services
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Google Kubernetes Engine
Google Kubernetes Engine 9.0
Based on 1 answer
- When issues came up, we reached out to some folks at GCP and they seemed to be very prompt and attentive to our needs. They were always willing to help and provide additional details or recommendations or links to resources. This kind of support is very helpful as it allows us to navigate GKE with more confidence.

Verified User
Contributor in Other
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 501-1000 employeesReturn on Investment
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
- We achieved minimum downtime.
- The autoscaling kept the performance of the services great.
- We saved money by running the workloads on AWS ECS in Fargate mode by having different settings for different services to save on the hardware configuration side as well as having scheduled tasks.
DevOps Engineer
CallSign (Pvt.) Ltd.Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees
Google Kubernetes Engine
- Positive: Allowed us to start and produce working software regardless of our experience level.
- Positive: Integration with other Google Cloud services that we wanted to use anyway.
- Negative: It's kinda clunky, and some scenarios seem Google Kubernetes Engine-specific instead of being more integrated with other Google Cloud services or the web UI.
DevOps Team Leader
CognyteInformation Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees