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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) vs. DigitalOcean Kubernetes

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon EKS
Score 8.6 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
DigitalOcean Kubernetes
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
DigitalOcean's Managed Kubernetes is designed for simple and cost effective container orchestration.N/A
Pricing
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)DigitalOcean Kubernetes
Editions & Modules
Amazon EKS Cluster
$.10
per hour of each cluster created
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon EKSDigitalOcean Kubernetes
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)DigitalOcean Kubernetes
Container Management
Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
8.9
1 Ratings
11% above category average
DigitalOcean Kubernetes
-
Ratings
Security and Isolation9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Container Orchestration8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Cluster Management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Storage Management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Discovery Tools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)DigitalOcean Kubernetes
Small Businesses
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)DigitalOcean Kubernetes
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)DigitalOcean Kubernetes
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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DigitalOcean
DO Kubernetes is well-suited for: - deploying APIs - deploying workers - log collection and analysis (ie ELK stack) - deploying Helm charts and anything that can be mapped on to K8s concepts Less appropriate for anything requiring no public Internet access (ie VPC only). Less appropriate for anything requiring integration with the DO app platform via VPC, at the moment.
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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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DigitalOcean
  • Hosted dashboard
  • Hosted container registry
  • Horizontal auto-scaling
  • LetsEncrypt SSL termination
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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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DigitalOcean
  • Option for internal VPC-only deployment
  • Better integration with cloud firewall
  • Better integration with DO App platform via VPC
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Usability
Amazon AWS
Cluster maintanence is reduced, easier to deploy resources, great observability insights
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DigitalOcean
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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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DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is the most affordable and straightforward of the hosted Kubernetes options we evaluated. All features that we require are supported without an excess of complication of extraneous features. Straightforward billing is also very important for us in comparison to the Big Three cloud hosts, which have very complicated billing practices. DigitalOcean also provides a platform with very little vendor lock-in.
CO
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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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DigitalOcean
  • Excellent uptime
  • Low cost for provided value
  • Good integration with the rest of the DO platform to provide additional value
CO
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