Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) vs Google Kubernetes Engine

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

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Abdullah Khawer

DevOps Engineer

CallSign (Pvt.) Ltd.Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees

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At the moment, the best-managed cluster on the market. Quick deployment with quite specific project requirements. The mesh ingress (istio) allowed the building of a quite complicated upgrade process for applications.

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Lukasz Stadnik

Cloud Architect

CloudicalComputer Networking, 501-1000 employees

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Pros

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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Apurv Doshi

Senior Solutions Architect

InfostretchInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Automated orchestration, deployment, and scaling of containers
Integrated Logging

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Kadu Barral

Tech Lead

SulAméricaInsurance, 5001-10,000 employees

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Cons

There is room for better documentation.
Is not exactly Kubernetes (there is more knowledge in the market on this orchestrator).
Logging can be difficult.

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Francisco Javier Castaneda Marroquin

CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

Global Bestlogistics Systems S.A. de C.V.Computer Software, 11-50 employees

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There aren't any but there's a steep learning curve for your team especially if they are new to the Kubernetes world

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Bhargav Nanekalva

Senior PHP Full Stack Developer

CloudSEKInternet, 51-200 employees

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Usability

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) 5.0

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This is a tool that is relatively simple to start using. The hardest part of getting started is getting a docker image setup for the first time, which typically falls outside the responsibility of ECS. Getting workflows and tasks setup is simple to understand conceptually and to implement. To move beyond a simple Queue -> executor workflow is difficult and best handled by using Amazon's Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) instead.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Human Resources Company, 51-200 employees

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Google Kubernetes Engine 8.0

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If you are familiar with the Google Cloud Platform, the Kubernetes Engine is a natural addition. It uses the same easy interface and can be tied into an organization's existing Google Cloud infrastructure. For an organization new to Kubernetes, we were impressed by how easy it is to use and get an application operational.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) 7.9

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AWS support is usually pretty good at solving issues and pretty quick with communication, but buyer beware - this is a market where what you are paying matters. The higher the support tier, as with anything else, the better service you receive.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Information Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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Google Kubernetes Engine 8.3

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Very good Kubernetes distribution with a reasonable total price. Integration with storage and load balancer for ingress and services speed up every process deployment.

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Lukasz Stadnik

Cloud Architect

CloudicalComputer Networking, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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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Abdullah Khawer

DevOps Engineer

CallSign (Pvt.) Ltd.Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees

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Google Kubernetes Engine has better upgrades and auto-scale management. Google Kubernetes Engine is also the cheapest option for managed Kubernetes, and Google is the principal contributor to the Kubernetes project.

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Kadu Barral

Tech Lead

SulAméricaInsurance, 5001-10,000 employees

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Return on Investment

We run 8 web applications (demo instances) on a single machine. At a particular time, no more than 3 applications run simultaneously. So, we keep only required containers up. This helps us to provision small EC2 machines without compromising performance.
Overall Amazon ECS helps to have less number of dedicated machines as more than one solution can be deployed on a single instance. This reduces costs a lot.

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Apurv Doshi

Senior Solutions Architect

InfostretchInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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GKE has reduced our costs by automating load balancing, autoscaling and complex networking which is now managed as code
There's a time cost to train staff about docker and k8s which can be time consuming

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Bhargav Nanekalva

Senior PHP Full Stack Developer

CloudSEKInternet, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No