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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) vs. Rafay

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon EKS
Score 8.5 out of 10
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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
Rafay
Score 9.8 out of 10
N/A
The Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform is a turnkey offering that automates Kubernetes cluster management, modern application deployment and operations at scale, from Rafay Systems in Sunnyvale. The platform enables development, operations and site reliability engineering teams to govern, manage and monitor multiple Kubernetes clusters and distros, and operating applications in Kubernetes environments running on-premise, in the cloud or at the Edge. Rafay is designed to accelerate platform…N/A
Pricing
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)Rafay
Editions & Modules
Amazon EKS Cluster
$.10
per hour of each cluster created
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon EKSRafay
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)Rafay
Top Pros
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Small Businesses
Portainer
Portainer
Score 9.3 out of 10
Portainer
Portainer
Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Docker
Docker
Score 9.2 out of 10
Docker
Docker
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Docker
Docker
Score 9.2 out of 10
Docker
Docker
Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)Rafay
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)Rafay
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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Rafay Systems, Inc
Rafay is well suited for managing K8 deployments in on-prem deployments as well as AWS. Their support for GKE seems a bit limited.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Managed control plane
  • Autoscaling
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Rafay Systems, Inc
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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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Rafay Systems, Inc
  • Seamless Single Sign-On Integration
  • Use of a jumpstation to bootstrap a new EKS cluster deployment
  • Some information in the UI does not auto populate
  • UI can be enhanced a bit
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Usability
Amazon AWS
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Rafay Systems, Inc
So far our experience with using Rafay's platform has been very positive.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
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Rafay Systems, Inc
I have dealt with a lot of support organizations and am really glad to say that Rafay goes above and beyond expectations when it comes to supporting our teams.
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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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Rafay Systems, Inc
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Amazon AWS
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Rafay Systems, Inc
No, we are very satisfied with the contract terms and pricing model and hope it does not change in the future.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • 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.
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Rafay Systems, Inc
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