Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) vs. IBM Cloud Private

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

IBM Cloud Private

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon EKS	Score 8.7 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 hour of each cluster created
IBM Cloud Private	Score 9.6 out of 10	N/A	IBM Cloud Private is a Kubernetes-based container platform allowing users to build cloud-native applications on their own infrastructure. In addition, it offers common services for self-service deployment, monitoring, logging and security, as well as middleware, data and analytics.	N/A

Pricing

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

IBM Cloud Private

Editions & Modules

Amazon EKS Cluster: $.10
per hour of each cluster created

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Amazon EKS	IBM Cloud Private
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)	IBM Cloud Private
Considered Both Products	Amazon EKS Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon EKS Depends on the public cloud using and better integrations within the cloud native services. Using AWS cloud for majority of the platform so it was better to use the same vendor service Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon EKS 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 … Incentivized Helpful?	IBM Cloud Private Nosava Begum Human Resources Manager Chose IBM Cloud Private With VMware cloud, each VMware Cloud customer must have an SDDC account(VMC) as well as a general AWS account. The two accounts must be linked for the service to work which is a tiresome thing to do for some clients but with IBM Cloud Private all these issues are solved. Incentivized Helpful? Bhaskara Rudraraju Tech Consultant (ODM and BPM) Chose IBM Cloud Private IBM Cloud Functions Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

IBM Cloud Private

Container Management

Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) 8.9 Ratings 9% above category average	IBM Cloud Private - Ratings
Security and Isolation	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Container Orchestration	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Cluster Management	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Storage Management	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Discovery Tools	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Platform-as-a-Service

Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) - Ratings	IBM Cloud Private 9.7 Ratings 22% above category average
Ease of building user interfaces	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Scalability	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Platform management overhead	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Platform access control	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Development environment creation	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Development environment replication	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Issue recovery	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)	IBM Cloud Private
Small Businesses	Portainer Score 9.8 out of 10	AWS Lambda Score 8.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.1 out of 10	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.1 out of 10	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.1 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)	IBM Cloud Private
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)	IBM Cloud Private
Likelihood to Recommend	Well suited for microservices architecture but can be a bit costly if less number of microservices or monolithic architecture hosted to be hosted on containers. Use of hybrid cluster instances also works well using both normal and fargate instances. Also the integration of audit and diagnostic logs of master nodes helps to reduce the unwanted access related issues. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM Cloud Private is well suited for SaaS models. Incentivized Bhaskara Rudraraju Tech Consultant (ODM and BPM) Read full review
Pros	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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review	There is a large variety of services available on IBM Cloud. This is my first experience with a PaaS and I haven’t had any major problems navigating around it. It is easy to deploy applications and services on IBM Cloud. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review	More hands on training outside of virtual classes would be helpful. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Cluster maintanence is reduced, easier to deploy resources, great observability insights Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review	With VMware cloud, each VMware Cloud customer must have an SDDC account(VMC) as well as a general AWS account. The two accounts must be linked for the service to work which is a tiresome thing to do for some clients but with IBM Cloud Private all these issues are solved. Incentivized Nosava Begum Human Resources Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	Migrating all our workloads from ec2 VMs to containers running in Kubernetes has been a huge improvement for the management and resilience of our Infrastructure. EKS Upgrade process to a new version seems to be taking very long .... EKS creation time usually takes over 10 minutes in us-east-1, we would like faster creation times to be under 5 minutes. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	N/A N/A N/A Incentivized Dinesh P Senior Infrastructure Engineer Read full review
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