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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AWS Elastic Beanstalk

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AAWS Elastic Beanstalk is the platform-as-a-service offering provided by Amazon and designed to leverage AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

    $35

    per month

    Google Cloud Run

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Cloud Run enables users to build and deploy scalable containerized apps written in any language (including Go, Python, Java, Node.js, .NET, and Ruby) on a fully managed platform. Cloud Run can be paired with other container ecosystem tools, including Google's Cloud Build, Cloud Code, Artifact Registry, and Docker. And it features out-of-the-box integration with Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, and Error Reporting to ensure the health of an application.N/A

    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

    Score8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is a managed Kubernetes offering, delivering user tools and built-in security for rapid delivery of applications that users can bind to cloud services related to IBM Watson®, IoT, DevOps and data analytics. As a certified K8s provider, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides intelligent scheduling, self-healing, horizontal scaling, service discovery and load balancing, automated rollouts and rollbacks, and secret and configuration management. The Kubernetes…N/A
    Pricing
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkGoogle Cloud RunIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Editions & Modules
    No Charge
    $0
    Users pay for AWS resources (e.g. EC2, S3 buckets, etc.) used to store and run the application.
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    Pricing Offerings
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkGoogle Cloud RunIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Free Trial
    NoYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkGoogle Cloud RunIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Considered Multiple Products
    Amazon AWS
    No answer on this topic
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    IBM
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    I have earlier used various services, such as Kubernetes and Google Cloud Run. Still, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service offers more convenience and a larger set of functions and features are available in Kubernetes. Google Cloud Run is much closer to a server less approach to …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    When compared to AWS, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service offers more features and also comes at a reasonable cost.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Just started using K8s service, haven't evaluated other products yet.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    I've also worked with AWS and Google Cloud platform and I was curious about IBM Cloud's services.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    We decided to give IBM a chance due to their initial on-boarding incentives, but we are very happy with our decision to leverage that opportunity.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
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    96%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
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    Happy with the feature set
    88%
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    Happy with the feature set
    28 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkGoogle Cloud RunIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Google Cloud Run and IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Feature
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    7.8
    28 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Google Cloud Run
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces8.018 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability7.028 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead8.027 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability7.022 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control8.027 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration8.027 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation7.027 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication8.028 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification8.027 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery9.025 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes8.026 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Google Cloud Run and IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Feature
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    -
    Ratings
    Google Cloud Run
    7.3
    17 Ratings
    11% below category average
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    8.1
    20 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Security and Isolation00 Ratings8.017 Ratings8.120 Ratings
    Container Orchestration00 Ratings7.616 Ratings8.520 Ratings
    Cluster Management00 Ratings6.41 Ratings7.820 Ratings
    Storage Management00 Ratings2.71 Ratings8.020 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization00 Ratings8.517 Ratings8.020 Ratings
    Discovery Tools00 Ratings7.213 Ratings7.819 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks00 Ratings8.216 Ratings7.720 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery00 Ratings8.514 Ratings8.418 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging00 Ratings8.017 Ratings8.220 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score8 out of 10
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Red Hat OpenShift
    Score9.1 out of 10
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.4 out of 10
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkGoogle Cloud RunIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (28 ratings)
    8.5
    (17 ratings)
    8.0
    (86 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.9
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    8.7
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    -
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    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    -
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    8.7
    (15 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
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    7.6
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
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    8.0
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkGoogle Cloud RunIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    I have been using AWS Elastic Beanstalk for more than 5 years, and it has made our life so easy and hassle-free. Here are some scenarios where it excels -
    • I have been using different AWS services like EC2, S3, Cloudfront, Serverless, etc. And Elastic Beanstalk makes our lives easier by tieing each service together and making the deployment a smooth process.
    • N number of integrations with different CI/CD pipelines make this most engineer's favourite service.
    • Scalability & Security comes with the service, which makes it the absolute perfect product for your business.
    Personally, I haven't found any situations where it's not appropriate for the use cases it can be used. The pricing is also very cost-effective.
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    Google
    Microservices and RestFul API application as it is fast and reliant. Seamless integration with event triggers such as pubsub or event arc, so you can easily integrate that with usecases with file uploads, database changes, etc. Basically great with short-lived tasks, if however, you have long-running processses, Cloud Run might not be idle for this. For example if you have a long running data processing task, other solutions such as kubeflow pipelines or dataflow are more suited for this kind of tasks. Cloud Run is also stateless, so if you need memory, you will have to connect an external database.
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    IBM
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service also stands out in environments where the workloads vary continuously and require befitting scale. The product excels particularly in microservices structures, wherein the companies would harness the capacity for container orchestration and automated scaling. Still, it may face the challenges due to monolith applications that have not been originally developed for using container technology.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Getting a project set up using the console or CLI is easy compared to other [computing] platforms.
    • AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports a variety of programming languages so teams can experiment with different frameworks but still use the same compute platform for rapid prototyping.
    • Common application architectures can be referenced as patterns during project [setup].
    • Multiple environments can be deployed for an application giving more flexibility for experimentation.
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    Google
    • Auto scaling is the best one
    • provide direct VPC connectivity and rigid network
    • Cloud SQL and Pub/Sub services
    • Handling latency issues
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    IBM
    • IBM has a strong focus on serverless and Kubernetes. This shows in the platform. Deploying containers to Kubernetes was very easy.
    • Deploying a Kubernetes cluster through the GUI is very easy and quick. On top of that, IBM Cloud offers a single node cluster for Free.
    • Container Registry is a very good product for managing container images. Integration with Kubernetes was seemless.
    • Portability. To transition from Google Cloud Kubernetes to IBM Cloud Kubernetes took almost no effort. We mostly use the CLI and the standard tools such as kubectl were present.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Limited to the frameworks and configurations that AWS supports. There is no native way to use Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a Go application behind Nginx, for example.
    • It's not always clear what's changed on an underlying system when AWS updates an EB stack; the new version is announced, but AWS does not say what specifically changed in the underlying configuration. This can have unintended consequences and result in additional work in order to figure out what changes were made.
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    Google
    • The UI can be made simpler. Currently the UI is bloated and it takes time to find out what you want
    • More integrations with container registry providers (ECR, dockerhub)
    • Better permissions UX. Currently GCP requires service accounts to be used with cloud products, the experience adding/removing permissions is difficult to navigate
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    IBM
    • I constantly get this error even when everything is well configured prefect.exceptions.AuthorizationError: [{'path': ['auth_info'], 'message': 'AuthenticationError: Forbidden', 'extensions': {'code': 'UNAUTHENTICATED'}}]
    • Then sometimes the error disapear without changine anything, happened twice to me. Should there be an issue with the authentication service? Please let's improve or let users know why this may be happening.
    • Improve the UX in the browse console when removing many images at once
    • UX on the process of installing KeyCloack operator
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    As our technology grows, it makes more sense to individually provision each server rather than have it done via beanstalk. There are several reasons to do so, which I cannot explain without further diving into the architecture itself, but I can tell you this. With automation, you also loose the flexibility to morph the system for your specific needs. So if you expect that in future you need more customization to your deployment process, then there is a good chance that you might try to do things individually rather than use an automation like beanstalk.
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    Google
    We definitely need to renew it because we dont own our own infrastructure and storage and we are happy with Cloud Run features
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    IBM
    We have our application running on a CentOS compartment on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. We have been utilizing the help since IBM Cloud initially dispatched. We liked the adaptability and versatility that IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service give us. Since we are tiny, the Kubernetes administration is just utilized at present inside my venture bunch.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    The overall usability is good enough, as far as the scaling, interactive UI and logging system is concerned, could do a lot better when it comes to the efficiency, in case of complicated node logics and complicated node architectures. It can have better software compatibility and can try to support collaboration with more softwares
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    Google
    The UI/console is great... the documentation is top-notch for developers, but the CLI itself when you have to script around it is very complex and easy to forget some options... the downside of a generic command line client.
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    IBM
    We actually haven't had any real problems in our clusters recently and the results we have gotten from adopting IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service have been beyond even our greatest expectations. The community has helped optimize the use of the system and make it relatively simpler to use.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    Not seen any major issues when we run applications its good
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    IBM
    IBM's cloud is almost infallible.
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    Performance
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    Initially we felt slow but slowly it picked up and easy to manage
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    IBM
    IBM's cloud has a site in my conuntry (MEXICO) so the network latency was almost 0
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    As I described earlier it has been really cost effective and really easy for fellow developers who don't want to waste weeks and weeks into learning and manually deploying stuff which basically takes month to create and go live with the Minimal viable product (MVP). With AWS Beanstalk within a week a developer can go live with the Minimal viable product easily.
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    The self-guided support was solid, and there are plenty of online videos to guide first time users, but I think one area of improvement is a faster way to transfer a large quantity of files from our local machine to the cloud for storage (Aspera)
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    Online Training
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Online training is really an important resource for using these tools. IBM's help center is rich in useful information and tips. Also, external guides and tutorials are available (e.g. on youtube), but I followed only IBM ones and I had no difficulties.
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    Implementation Rating
    Amazon AWS
    - Do as many experiments as you can before you commit on using beanstalk or other AWS features. - Keep future state in mind. Think through what comes next, and if that is technically possible to do so. - Always factor in cost in terms of scaling. - We learned a valuable lesson when we wanted to go multi-region, because then we realized many things needs to change in code. So if you plan on using this a lot, factor multiple regions.
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    Google
    I was involved in the initial implementation setup, Its easy with the given documentaiton we can do ourself. Not that critical
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    IBM
    Ease of use. Very intuitive. We have been looking for a product that allows us to orchestrate our docker containers in a way where it allows us to effectively scale our applications to production. It also provides us a way of monitoring all our infrastructure in a very clear concise way.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    We also use Heroku and it is a great platform for smaller projects and light Node.js services, but we have found that in terms of cost, the Elastic Beanstalk option is more affordable for the projects that we undertake. The fact that it sits inside of the greater AWS Cloud offering also compels us to use it, since integration is simpler. We have also evaluated Microsoft Azure and gave up trying to get an extremely basic implementation up and running after a few days of struggling with its mediocre user interface and constant issues with documentation being outdated. The authentication model is also badly broken and trying to manage resources is a pain. One cannot compare Azure with anything that Amazon has created in the cloud space since Azure really isn't a mature platform and we are always left wanting when we have to interface with it.
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    Google
    AWS Lambda supports code zip package, enabling lower cold start time. Also, AWS Lambda pricing is much simpler, easier to understand.
    Other than that, the 2 products are very similar, including the Docker image support: the image must be built based on proprietary base image.
    Obviously, if your other services are running in GCP, then Google Cloud Run is your only choice for tight integration, & private networking.
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    IBM
    We mainly selected [IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service] because IBM fabric blockchain service is mostly compatible with it. To have all the infrastructure in a single cloud to get the best output we selected the [IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service].
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    Not part of purchase.
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    IBM
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    Scalability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    It has good auto scale feature and reliable also
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    IBM
    IBM's CKS does not offers automatic autoscaling nor vertical scaling (automatic). Other services like Google Kubernetes Engine scales up and down very well
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    Professional Services
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    We have very good support when needed
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • till now we had not Calculated ROI as the project is still evolving and we had to keep on changing the environment implementation
    • it meets our purpose of quick deployment as compared to on-premises deployment
    • till now we look good as we also controlled our expenses which increased suddenly in the middle of deployment activity
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    Google
    • Built in support for auto scaling helps reduce operational overhead
    • Any application performance issues can be addressed quickly by allocating more resources while a proper fix can be planned and rolled out later
    • Using Google Cloud Run enables development of microservices which provides granular control for scaling critical services in the platform
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    IBM
    • Increased development speed and agility allows to build features faster and more economically.
    • Improved resource utilization helps keep applications running very efficiently, which saves on cloud service expenses.
    • Scalability and resilience allows for scaling up or down based on demand, which keeps applications running efficiently and more economically.
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