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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) vs. IBM Cloud Code Engine vs. IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon EKS

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AAmazon 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

    IBM Cloud Code Engine

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloud Code Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform that unifies the deployment of containers and applications including web apps, microservices, event-driven functions, or batch jobs. This serverless compute service aims to remove the burden of building, deploying, and managing workloads in Kubernetes so users can focus on writing code and not on the infrastructure that is needed to host it. With IBM Cloud Code Engine users can run any workload…N/A

    IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AWebSphere Hybrid Edition from IBM is a collection of WebSphere application runtimes and modernization tools that provides support for on-premise and major public cloud deployments, in virtual machines, containers and Kubernetes. The user can choose any WebSphere edition and deploy Liberty and application modernization tools to help move to a cloud-native architecture, modernize existing applications and support an existing WebSphere estate.

    $88.50

    per month

    Pricing
    Amazon EKSIBM Cloud Code EngineIBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    Editions & Modules
    Amazon EKS Cluster
    $.10
    per hour of each cluster created
    No answers on this topic
    Application Server
    $88.50
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon EKSIBM Cloud Code EngineIBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    Free Trial
    NoYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon EKSIBM Cloud Code EngineIBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    Considered Multiple Products
    Amazon AWS
    No answer on this topic
    IBM
    Chose IBM Cloud Code Engine
    Code enigine is much easier to understand.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Code Engine
    it is as good as them
    Incentivized
    IBM
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    93%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    93%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    91%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    93%
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    19 Answers
    Features
    Amazon EKSIBM Cloud Code EngineIBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and IBM Cloud Code Engine and IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
    8.9
    1 Ratings
    8% above category average
    IBM Cloud Code Engine
    -
    Ratings
    IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    -
    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 Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and IBM Cloud Code Engine and IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cloud Code Engine
    6.6
    15 Ratings
    16% below category average
    IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    -
    Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings6.415 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings6.815 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and IBM Cloud Code Engine and IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cloud Code Engine
    -
    Ratings
    IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    7.3
    31 Ratings
    8% below category average
    IDE support00 Ratings00 Ratings5.426 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings00 Ratings8.231 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings00 Ratings7.831 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings00 Ratings8.131 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings00 Ratings7.530 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings00 Ratings6.626 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Amazon EKSIBM Cloud Code EngineIBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    Small Businesses
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score8 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.4 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon EKSIBM Cloud Code EngineIBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    6.9
    (15 ratings)
    8.2
    (33 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.2
    (11 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon EKSIBM Cloud Code EngineIBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    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.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    It would be a good solution for running serverless applications. Because infrastructure setup and maintenance expenses can be avoided, the investment will pay for itself. The time to value is short, allowing IT to respond to business demands quickly. It aided us in customizing security as well as operating a personal project using to autoscale up and down approach. Also, because there isn't much hassle, items can be pushed into production as soon as possible. Simply push a container, create an application, and you're ready to go. But, It is less suited when you have a static machine or need to keep data in some way and do not want to utilize network storage or a database.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    IBM WebSphere Hybrid edition is well-suited for the development and deployment of large enterprise-level applications such as Electronic Health Records that are used in our organization. IBM WebSphere is appropriate for organizations that require strong security and compliance as it provides a high level of security and compliance features. This works well with organizations that are subject to strict regulatory requirements, such as hospitals.
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    • Managed Environment for partners and customers - shifting skills and speed to CSP
    • A variety of programming model support
    • Elastic scalability for cloud native development and speed
    • Flexible consumption model
    • Containerized workloads with horizontal scalability
    • Here is an example - live demo walk-thru delivered to partners and community:
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBClYgpDFg
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    • IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition has done marvelous in building and deploying Java Enterprise applications.
    • It also does well in automating deployment and scaling. This has made it easier for our organization to deploy updates to our applications.
    • IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition does well in security by providing features that protect enterprise applications.
    Incentivized
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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 ...
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    • the pricing structure is complicated, and the servers are expensive. I really think they should offer better pricing options and support for more languages
    • sometimes the servers go down, and they take too long to respond to support tickets
    • uploading documents is slow since I have to do it one by one, making the process much longer than it should be
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    • Ease of use in terms of deployment, give simple interface to do simple stuff like Tomcat, JBoss or GlassFish.
    • Takes long time to start the server.
    • The Liferay wars need to be decorated and then deployed. Perhaps we could simplify that.
    • Some of the concepts are good for complexity that WAS can handle but could be simplified and better documented, like concepts of well and profile, context, etc.
    • A Liferay war file created using Liferay Developer studio runs fine in Tomcat, however that may not run in WAS 7.x because it needs to be decorated. I had one war for a Liferay portlet with a simple cron job, and had hard time running to WAS server. It was running on the latest free download done on my friends m/c. Other times I have seen that there are issues running a war file that runs on Tomcat but runs on WAS after lot of customization for WAS.
    • The corporations like this however, the product may need better vibrant community of users where issues can be discussed.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Since this capability supports a wide variety of use cases - all on non proprietary and open technology based frameworks
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    Mostly we will be renewing unless the strategic direction changes drastically or there are other complelling external circumstances. We've been on a multi year project to modernize our legacy applications and that effort will continue for the foreseeable future.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    Cluster maintanence is reduced, easier to deploy resources, great observability insights
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    Consumers can purchase individual components as well as unlocking new bundles with special features and services including the extensive data management governance capabilities of the Automation range. Kubernetes containerizing for effective service implementation and an agile, flexible multi-cloud data program help both utilization expansion and deployment to be improved by this architecture.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    WebSphere Application Server is used across our organization. Most projects use this for Java products and applications. Being robust and scalable makes it even more usable. We love using WebSphere Application Server due to its configuration management ability made simple and vast across all java related parameters. It is dependent on the features and upgrades and IBM releases some great upgrades to WebSphere Application Server.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Deploys fairly quick enough and like the roll-out update feature decreasing the downtime and also plays well with other integration tools as well.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    IBM was quick to respond when we had an issue with our specific infrastructure. We raised a PMR, which they picked up quickly and updated us about every step of the way. We had an appropriate fix for quite a business critical issue within a fortnight, which was impressive!
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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.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    What impresses me most about IBM Cloud Code Engine is the container workload management capability and the Cloud services and dataflow monitoring functionalities. Data security and network security control via IBM Cloud Code Engine is quite excellent and very responsive data integration functions and the first deployment is not very technical.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    Cleo Integration Clould has many bells and whistles; however, when we added more maps and trading partners, it really slowed down. We found that the Cleo support was very slow to respond and there was a language barrier. IBM Websphere had better customer support and its processing was much faster than Cleo Integration Cloud
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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
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    • [One] positive is that we have one tool to learn (and a simple one) for all kinds of deployment. We need less people to maintain the system.
    • We have saved a lot of time on trouble shooting. It's clear how it works. It's "just" kubernetes..
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    • Continuous uptime of the business applications we manage
    • It's now much simpler for me to build and deploy cloud-native applications.
    • Because it can offload for me management and maintenance of the application server to IBM I can focus on the development, deployment and testing of the applications which is more important
    Incentivized
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