Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) vs OpenShift | TrustRadius

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Score 8.8 out of 10

Based on 19 reviews and ratings

Score 9 out of 10

Based on 63 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

OpenShift

Ease of building user interfaces

Scalability

Platform management overhead

Workflow engine capability

Platform access control

Services-enabled integration

Development environment creation

Development environment replication

Issue monitoring and notification

Issue recovery

Upgrades and platform fixes

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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Pre built cartridges, giving a huge range of software ready to go. Reduces the amount of time required to get up and running.
Integration with GIT was an advantage, cloning the repo and making changes was straight forward.
Speed, creating an environment in minutes, ready to deploy.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Retail Company, 1001-5000 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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I would like to see a public cloud using OpenShift and Docker integration. I am not aware if this is already available now.
I would like to see a tool that can help with extracting log files from the remote server like it being available on a Samba shared folder. And other applications that want to scan for keywords in the application log can check if there have been any errors or exceptions thrown by the application.

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Sonam Samdupkhangsar

Senior (Consultant) Software Engineer

Intermountain HealthcareHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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OpenShift 10.0

Based on 4 answers

Leverage OpenShift Online constantly at both the free and paid tiers. While AWS is convenient, it often brings more administration than I want to deal with for a quick application (i.e. Drupal or Wordpress blog). OpenShift also simplifies the DNS registration and ability to share application environments with team members

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Isaac Christoffersen

Architect, Infrastructure Services

VizuriInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Usability

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) 5.0

Based on 1 answer

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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OpenShift 8.5

Based on 2 answers

It is easy to understand. Gives our team freedom to focus on the quality of our coding and not worry too much about build and deployment which honestly can be a headache for some of us. Also, customer support is fast and responsive so we don't have to wait for weeks for issues to get fixed.

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Verified User

Consultant in Engineering

Information Technology and Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Support Rating

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) 7.9

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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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Information Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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OpenShift 9.0

Based on 6 answers

First of all OpenShift Help Portal is a great place to get assistance in case of any OpenShift platform related technical questions. When it comes to paid support subscription friendly support agents can find the right answer for you in a matter of minutes which is super efficient way of solving any critical issues.

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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ 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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EC2 seems really cheap until you realize how many hours there are in a year, so it is expensive for something that runs 24/7. And scaling is a challenge (and even more expensive) to set up for.Bluehost has very reasonable prices, but it feels so cluttered whenever I login to cPanel. Thank goodness they have an SSH option also, but I remember having to send a picture ID or something and pay extra for the privilege

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Full Stack Developer

GeneSys FoundationInternet, 1-10 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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Cost - OpenShift is extremely inexpensive. I use a free account for Dev and QA. For production, I am planning on using a low cost paid subscription.
Time - You can get your application up and running in minutes so if you find that the service is not for you, you don't have much to lose.

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Software Consultant/Architect

Viverae, Inc.Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

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

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Editions & Modules

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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

OpenShift Editions & Modules

Edition

Azure On Demand	$0.171¹
1-Year Reserved Instance	$0.114¹
3-Year Reserved Instance	$0.076¹

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Rating Summary

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

OpenShift

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

OpenShift

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

OpenShift

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

OpenShift

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

OpenShift

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