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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) vs. F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon EKS
Score 9.0 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
F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
A solution to deploy and orchestrate applications on a managed Kubernetes platform with centralized, SaaS-based management of distributed applications with a single pane of glass and rich observability. Simplified by managing deployments as one across on-prem, cloud, and edge locations.N/A
Pricing
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
Editions & Modules
Amazon EKS Cluster
$.10
per hour of each cluster created
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon EKSF5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Features
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
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
F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
8.0
7 Ratings
2% below category average
Security and Isolation9.01 Ratings8.07 Ratings
Container Orchestration8.01 Ratings7.66 Ratings
Cluster Management8.01 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Storage Management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization9.01 Ratings8.36 Ratings
Discovery Tools8.01 Ratings8.36 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks9.01 Ratings7.66 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery10.01 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging10.01 Ratings8.46 Ratings
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Score 9.6 out of 10
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Score 9.6 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.6 out of 10
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Score 9.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
8.7
(8 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
5.5
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.7
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
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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F5
F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack is quite straightforward with the UI and you can expose the features you want. This simplifies the experience for non-admins
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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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F5
  • Complex cloud configurations.
  • WAF and DDoS protection.
  • Automation and workflow integration.
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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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F5
  • It's still a little early so the app feels foreign to our ops teams
  • I would like to customize the UI so I can visually see if I'm in Prod or Dev based on background colors
  • Templates are a little awkward to create
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
F5
once we get the hang of it and able to use it effectively, we are able to try out different application ideas without affecting existing infrastructure
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Usability
Amazon AWS
Cluster maintanence is reduced, easier to deploy resources, great observability insights
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F5
I gave F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack this usability rating because, in my experience, the F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack product meets all the expectations
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
F5
F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack's support team is very responsive
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Implementation Rating
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
F5
F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack's partner provided services are excellent
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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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F5
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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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F5
  • The WAF can be resource intensive in some cases
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