Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) vs IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service | TrustRadius

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Score 8.8 out of 10

Based on 19 reviews and ratings

Score 9 out of 10

Based on 263 reviews and ratings

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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Senior Solutions Architect

InfostretchInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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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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Enterprise Architect

HanleyComputer Software, 1-10 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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Free Kubernetes Cluster provides 2 vCPUs 4GB RAM . I suggest to increase this quota and duration of free trial so that more PoC and demos can be done on IBM cloud. The more the developer community is comfortable with IBM Cloud Portal interface, the more popular it will become which in turn will bring more business.

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Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 8.1

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We will renew our licence for sure. Our research is boosted with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. We can develop applications really fast.

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PhD Candidate

University of BolognaResearch, 5001-10,000 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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Professional in Information Technology

Human Resources Company, 51-200 employees

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 8.3

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Kubernetes is absolutely fantastic. The Kubernetes API is a great tool when it comes to automating a deployment pipeline. Deployments are not only more reliable, but also much faster, because we’re no longer dealing with VMs. Our builds and deployments have become more reliable because it’s easier to test and ship containers.

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Channel operations manager

BuzzorangesComputer Games, 1-10 employees

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Reliability and Availability

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 9.1

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IBM's cloud is almost infallible.

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Employee in Engineering

Computer & Network Security Company, 10,001+ employees

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Performance

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 9.1

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IBM's cloud has a site in my conuntry (MEXICO) so the network latency was almost 0

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Employee in Engineering

Computer & Network Security Company, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) 8.0

Based on 7 answers

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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Engineer in Engineering

Information Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 7.6

Based on 5 answers

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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Data scientist

NYU ITEducation Management, 501-1000 employees

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Online Training

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 5.5

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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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PhD Candidate

University of BolognaResearch, 5001-10,000 employees

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Implementation Rating

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 7.6

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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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Channel operations manager

BuzzorangesComputer Games, 1-10 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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I say IKS still has a more to work, while it benefits in being an early adopter like GKE, most of these services are easier to work on when it comes to web management, something the IKS lacks and needs to improve since its release because of how well-established the management flow works on these platforms.

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Engineer in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

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Scalability

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 1.0

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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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Employee in Engineering

Computer & Network Security Company, 10,001+ 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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Senior Solutions Architect

InfostretchInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Very cost effective and horizontally scalable serivces.
More predictable than spinning up new virtual servers for expansion (Charged by API).
Adaptation of all standards including Docker, MongoDB, Node-RED, allows leveraging of existing and Open Source code more reliably to reduce costs.

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IBM - unbundlED Inc. Technology Partner

IBMComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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