Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
31 Ratings
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Top Rated
293 Ratings
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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

31 Ratings
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Score 8.4 out of 100

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

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Score 8.7 out of 100

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Attribute Ratings

  • Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating

Likelihood to Recommend

9.3

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

93%
6 Ratings
8.4

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

84%
65 Ratings

Likelihood to Renew

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

N/A
0 Ratings
8.8

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

88%
16 Ratings

Usability

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

N/A
0 Ratings
8.7

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

87%
16 Ratings

Availability

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

N/A
0 Ratings
9.1

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

91%
2 Ratings

Performance

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

N/A
0 Ratings
9.1

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

91%
2 Ratings

Support Rating

8.5

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

85%
7 Ratings
7.7

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

77%
5 Ratings

Online Training

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

N/A
0 Ratings
8.1

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

81%
15 Ratings

Implementation Rating

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

N/A
0 Ratings
7.6

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

76%
6 Ratings

Product Scalability

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

N/A
0 Ratings
1.0

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

10%
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.

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

After embracing IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, it allowed us to run applications in a cloud provider-agnostic way and made it possible to introduce new products and the infrastructure to scale each autonomous team's idea. Migrating to IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provided the flexibility and speed to deliver new products while significantly reducing the operational overhead.

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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.

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

  • 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 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

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

  • Currently, the pricing for the instances is quite high (30% higher than major vendors), so that needs to be worked on.
  • VM spinup times are slower than most major cloud vendors, if GCP only takes 60 seconds on average, IBM Cloud takes more than 10 minutes. This should be faster and could use more improvement
  • While providing a barebones dashboard for Kubernetes is great, I believe having the IKS service to have its own managed dashboard is better than providing the upstream Kube's dashboard.

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Pricing Details

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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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 ModelSpot price: $0.0013335. Ephemeral Storage Pricing: $0.0001111
Amazon EC2 Launch Type ModelFree
Amazon ECS on AWS OutpostsFree
  1. per hour per storage
  2. 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.

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

General

Free Trial
—
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional

Starting Price

—

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Editions & Modules

—
Additional Pricing Details
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Likelihood to Renew

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 8.8
Based on 16 answers
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 Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

No score
No answers yet
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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 8.7
Based on 16 answers
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is what we rely on to run our applications without having to worry about the underlying resources. It has a steep learning curve but [its] popularity makes it essential to learn because it is changing the way developers test and run application instances in the cloud[.]

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Reliability and Availability

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

No score
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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 9.1
Based on 2 answers
IBM's cloud is almost infallible.

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Performance

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 9.1
Based on 2 answers
IBM's cloud has a site in my conuntry (MEXICO) so the network latency was almost 0

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Support Rating

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) 8.5
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.

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 7.7
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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Online Training

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

No score
No answers yet
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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 8.1
Based on 15 answers
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 Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

No score
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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 7.6
Based on 6 answers
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 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.

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

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 Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 1.0
Based on 1 answer
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 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.

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Abdullah Khawer | TrustRadius Reviewer
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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

  • 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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