Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) vs. CloudBees Continuous Integration vs. Red Hat OpenShift

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon EKS
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed container service to run and scale Kubernetes applications in the cloud or on-premises, available on AWS or on-premise through Amazon EKS Anywhere.
$0.10
per month
CloudBees Continuous Integration
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
CloudBees Continuous Integration (formerly the CloudBees Jenkins Platform) is a continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) solution that extends Jenkins. Developed for on-premise installations, CloudBees CI offers stable releases with monthly updates, as well as additional proprietary tools and enterprise features to enhance the manageability and security of Jenkins. CloudBees CI helps administrators manage growing installations due to ever-increasing teams, projects and jobs…N/A
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.
$0.08
per hour
Pricing
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)CloudBees Continuous IntegrationRed Hat OpenShift
Editions & Modules
Amazon EKS Cluster
$.10
per hour of each cluster created
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon EKSCloudBees Continuous IntegrationRed Hat OpenShift
Free Trial
NoNoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)CloudBees Continuous IntegrationRed Hat OpenShift
Considered Multiple Products
Amazon EKS

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CloudBees Continuous Integration

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Red Hat OpenShift
Chose Red Hat OpenShift
We explore a lot of services to use in. But in todays world everything is cloud and the on premise solutions are not very strong until we discover Red Hat OpenShift which still very committed to maintain on premise solutions, we select Openshift and since first day we are very …
Chose Red Hat OpenShift
greate UI UX, easy to use, even when you have no clue about any command lines, you still can manage your apps. Also, public documentation is great, if you search for anything you can find it online. A great community and a support system
Chose Red Hat OpenShift
It's a fairly different experience compared to the other environments due to the additional security
Chose Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift has a better security posture than EKS. I enjoy the console on Red Hat OpenShift more as well. I believe there is greater observability for Red Hat OpenShift.
Chose Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat runs in multiple cloud and on-premise environments, so offers a portable experience in different contexts.
Chose Red Hat OpenShift
It is the best Enterprise ready orchestration solution for us.
Chose Red Hat OpenShift
We have replaced our local Kubernetes with open shift entirely and it is by far the better product. Compared to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, it can be more difficult to configure. We currently utilize both (open shift onsite and EKS remotely) and find advantages of …
Chose Red Hat OpenShift
They are all nice products, and they all have their place. But I'm convinced that from now on, instead of instantly just creating a Kubernetes cluster, I'm going to start seeing if Red Hat OpenShift is the best answer based on the project's overall needs. It's truly made that …
Chose Red Hat OpenShift
OpenShift is more flexible and can be deployed On-prem and on the cloud. Openshift was easier for the development teams to get up to speed and understand k8 terminology.
Chose Red Hat OpenShift
Our developer community is using Red Hat OpenShift for years and they are familiar and comfortable with the product. Red Hat OpenShift UI makes it easier for new developers to adopt without knowing much of Kubernetes. Our platform team feels it’s easy to mange the cluster and …
Chose Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift is a superior solution to EKS.
Chose Red Hat OpenShift
The console is a major upgrade over the bare bones interface given by cloud providers.
Chose Red Hat OpenShift
I like how Red Hat OpenShift is more security-focused and opinionated.
Chose Red Hat OpenShift
Kubernetes is powerful, but managing it yourself takes time. Red Hat OpenShift offers a user-friendly interface, built-in developer tools, and security features, all on top of Kubernetes. It simplifies management and gets you developing faster with all best practices and …
Chose Red Hat OpenShift
OpenShift offers a complete suite of plugins and services already set and configured. Saving time to connect with authentication services, monitoring, logs and CI/CD.
Chose Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift makes the Kubernetes operations simpler and easier to provide. Kubernetes operations can be complicated especially for beginner(s). Red Hat OpenShift provides a web and CLI interface so that teams with different skill sets can be productive. Red Hat OpenShift …
Chose Red Hat OpenShift
The reason for selecting Red Hat OpenShift is that it offers a combination of enterprise-grade support and a strong community, making it a good choice for container orchestration needs.
Chose Red Hat OpenShift
OpenShift is much more mature and feature rick than ESK
Features
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)CloudBees Continuous IntegrationRed Hat OpenShift
Container Management
Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
8.9
1 Ratings
9% above category average
CloudBees Continuous Integration
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Ratings
Red Hat OpenShift
-
Ratings
Security and Isolation9.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Container Orchestration8.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cluster Management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Storage Management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization9.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Discovery Tools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks9.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery10.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging10.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
-
Ratings
CloudBees Continuous Integration
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Ratings
Red Hat OpenShift
8.3
263 Ratings
7% above category average
Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings00 Ratings8.1228 Ratings
Scalability00 Ratings00 Ratings9.1251 Ratings
Platform management overhead00 Ratings00 Ratings7.9233 Ratings
Workflow engine capability00 Ratings00 Ratings7.9211 Ratings
Platform access control00 Ratings00 Ratings8.6235 Ratings
Services-enabled integration00 Ratings00 Ratings8.2222 Ratings
Development environment creation00 Ratings00 Ratings8.7228 Ratings
Development environment replication00 Ratings00 Ratings8.5217 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings00 Ratings7.8230 Ratings
Issue recovery00 Ratings00 Ratings7.7227 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings00 Ratings8.5230 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)CloudBees Continuous IntegrationRed Hat OpenShift
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.1
(253 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
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-
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8.9
(25 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
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8.5
(10 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
-
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5.5
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
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8.6
(125 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
6.9
(9 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
-
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7.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
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7.0
(3 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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8.0
(3 ratings)
Professional Services
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7.3
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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8.0
(1 ratings)
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8.0
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User Testimonials
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)CloudBees Continuous IntegrationRed Hat OpenShift
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
It is well suited when you want to have a Kubernetes cluster in AWS Cloud and want to avoid all the management overhead of maintaining your own cluster in terms of the control plane. EKS seems to be lacking in features when compared with AKS and GKE. Backups, service mesh, and monitoring have a lot of room for improvements.
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CloudBees
For all continuous integration features like multi branch pipeline, continuous build, and deployment execution, highly customizable groovy scripting, well integration with most of repositories like SVN, GIT, etc. are some of the exceptional features which helps devOps related tasks a treat to work everyday. With some minor changes in agent configuration and handling of their configuration on master instances would reduce a lot of issues. Also, cache of maven handling on agents needs to be improved (though not related to tool but the CI pipelines). But, since this is a very mature and performant tool, we expect some out of the box functionalities to handle all such scenarios. Overall, the tool works wonders because of its highly customizable features.
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Red Hat
Red Hat OpenShift, despite its complexity and overhead, remains the most complete and enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform available. It excels in research projects like ours, where we need robust CI/CD, GPU scheduling, and tight integration with tools like Jupyter, OpenDataHub, and Quiskit. Its security, scalability, and operator ecosystem make it ideal for experimental and production-grade AI workloads. However, for simpler general hosting tasks—such as serving static websites or lightweight backend services—we find traditional VMs, Docker, or LXD more practical and resource-efficient. Red Hat OpenShift shines in complex, container-native workflows, but can be overkill for basic infrastructure needs.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Upgrade the kubernetes clusters to the latest version with a single click
  • Auto scaling policies to automatically scale the nodes
  • Detailed logs and events on the cluster within the EKS clusters portal, cloudwatch logs and metrics
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CloudBees
  • Customer Support
  • Solutions engineering
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Red Hat
  • We had a few microservices that dealt with notifications and alerts. We used OpenShift to deploy these microservices, which handle and deliver notifications using publish-subscribe models.
  • We had to expose an API to consumers via MTLS, which was implemented using Server secret integration in OpenShift. We were then able to deploy the APIs on OpenShift with API security.
  • We integrated Splunk with OpenShift to view the logs of our applications and gain real-time insights into usage, as well as provide high availability.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • AWSIAM integration with Kubernetes RBAC could be better.
  • Enabling some add-ons like service mesh, and monitoring will be nice instead of having to install them yourself after the creation of the cluster.
  • EKS bootstrap time could be faster ...
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CloudBees
  • File or Workspace Management
  • Agent configurations at master level
  • Better Support for issues in product
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Red Hat
  • I wouldn't necessarily say there is look everyday technology transform. I can see a trend wherein Red Hat OpenShift is adopting all the new technology trends and helping their customers align with their priorities and the emerging technology trends. I wouldn't call out various scope for development every day. There is scope for development. It is all how the organizations adopt it and how they deliver it to their customers. I don't want to call out there is scope for development. It's happening. It is a never ending process.
  • At the moment, I don't have anything to call out. We are experiencing Red Hat OpenShift and we can see every day they're coming up with new features as and when they come up with new features, we want to experience it more and more. We are looking for opportunities wherein this can be leveraged to help our users and partners.
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
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CloudBees
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Red Hat
This is the current strategy for the company, most of the products in the organisation are aligning to Openshift and various use cases it support. Also lot of applications are being developed for AI use case, openshift.AI provides opportunity to host and leverage the AI capabilities for these applications
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Usability
Amazon AWS
Cluster maintanence is reduced, easier to deploy resources, great observability insights
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CloudBees
No answers on this topic
Red Hat
As I said before, the obserability is one of the weakest point of OpenShift and that has a lot to do with usability. The Kibana console is not fully integrated with OpenShift console and you have to switch from tab to tab to use it. Same with Prometheus, Jaeger and Grafan, it's a "simple" integration but if you want to do complex queries or dashboards you have to go to the specific console
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Reliability and Availability
Amazon AWS
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CloudBees
No answers on this topic
Red Hat
Redhat openshift is generally reliable and available platform, it ensures high availability for most the situations. in fact the product where we put openshift in a box, we ensure that the availability is also happening at node and network level and also at storage level, so some of the factors that are outside of Openshift realm are also working in HA manner.
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Performance
Amazon AWS
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CloudBees
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Red Hat
Overall, this platform is beneficial. The only downsides we have encountered have been with pods that occasionally hang. This results in resources being dedicated to dead or zombie pods. Over time, these wasted resources occasionally cause us issues, and we have had difficulty monitoring these pods. However, this issue does not overshadow the benefits we get from Openshift.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
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CloudBees
Support seems very unreachable from my experience. They handle cases if developers are facing issues, support seems to be very limited. It's not like other tools in a market where every mail is being taken priority and responses are sent. We see a lack in this particular aspect when it comes to CloudBees Jenkins Platform.
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Red Hat
Their customer support team is good and quick to respond. On a couple of occassions, they have helped us in solving some issues which we were finding a tad difficult to comprehend. On a rare occasion, the response was a bit slow but maybe it was because of the festival season. Overall a good experience on this front.
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In-Person Training
Amazon AWS
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CloudBees
No answers on this topic
Red Hat
I was not involved in the in person training, so i
can not answer this question, but the team in my org worked directly
with Openshift and able to get the in person training done easily, i did not
hear problem or complain in this space, so i hope things happen
seamlessly without any issue.
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Online Training
Amazon AWS
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CloudBees
No answers on this topic
Red Hat
We went thru the training material on RH webesite, i think its very descriptive and the handson lab sesssions are very useful. It would be good to create more short duration videos covering one single aspect of openshift, this wll keep the interest and also it breaks down the complexity to reasonable chunks.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
It feels like AWS is behind the EKS race, the only advantage I'm able to see right now is the support of IPv6, however, trying to promote AWS alternatives that are different from the market and more like a vendor locking solutions like ECS/Fargate have kept AWS behind and focusing on the wrong things. EKS needs to really improve its integration with the Kubernetes ecosystem and have an enterprise solution for monitoring, backups, and service mesh.
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CloudBees
CloudBees Jenkins Support is on par with the other enterprise tools we're currently using. It has performed well enough that we've adopted the product and placed it in the critical path of our software delivery pipelines.
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Red Hat
The Tanzu Platform seemed overly complicated, and the frequent changes to the portfolio as well as the messaging made us uneasy. We also decided it would not be wise to tie our application platform to a specific infrastructure provider, as Tanzu cannot be deployed on anything other than vSphere. SUSE Rancher seemed good overall, but ultimately felt closer to a DIY approach versus the comprehensive package that Red Hat OpenShift provides.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Amazon AWS
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CloudBees
No answers on this topic
Red Hat
It's easy to understand what are being billed and what's included in each type of subscription. Same with the support (Std or Premium) you know exactly what to expect when you need to use it. The "core" unit approach on the subscription made really simple to scale and carry the workloads from one site to another.
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Scalability
Amazon AWS
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CloudBees
No answers on this topic
Red Hat
This is a great platform to deployment container applications designed for multiple use cases. Its reasonably scalable platform, that can host multiple instances of applications, which can seamlessly handle the node and pod failure, if they are configured properly. There should be some scalability best practices guide would be very useful
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Good performance of platform without hiccups
  • Less number of people required to manage cluster
  • Easier to deploy new microservices
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CloudBees
  • Positive - Handles number of requests
  • Positive - Customizations of pipelines helps integrate many type of frameworks
  • Negative - Cache management on agents for dependencies downloaded
  • Positive - credential management helps reduce configurations to be done for each project job at manual level
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Red Hat
  • That is a complicated question and one that's not easy for me to answer. There's a lot of factors that go into all of the stuff that we just don't have an easy way of measuring. And we realize that while we're implementing Red Hat OpenShift, we've tried to start measuring some of that stuff, but we don't have a baseline to go on. So it's hard to say. What I can tell you is general experience with the platform has been extremely positive from the development aspect. Teams have been very, very happy with the speed at which they're able to do stuff. They've been happy with that. The way it works in one environment is exactly the way it works in the next environment because we don't have configuration drift, that type of thing, and has had very positive impacts. But we didn't have a baseline to start with. So I can't talk about getting there faster or anything like that.
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