Azure Container Instances vs. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Azure Container Instances

Azure Container Instances

18 Reviews and Ratings

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

61 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Azure Container Instances	Score 6.1 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft's Azure Container Instances allows developers to focus on building apps without managing virtual machines or having to learn new tools—it's just the application, in a container, running in the cloud.	$0.01 Per GB Per Hour
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)	Score 8.3 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is designed to make deploying and managing containerized applications easy. It offers serverless Kubernetes, an integrated continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) experience, and enterprise-grade security and governance. It allows development and operations teams on a single platform to rapidly build, deliver, and scale applications with confidence.	N/A

Pricing

Azure Container Instances

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Editions & Modules

Memory: $0.00533
Per GB Per Hour
vCPU: $0.04860
Per vCPU

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Azure Container Instances	Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Azure Container Instances	Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Top Pros	Pro Works good	Pro Good pricing Pro Continuous integration Pro Works fine
Top Cons	Minus Need to work	Minus Learning curve Minus Little challenging Minus Steep learning curve

Best Alternatives
	Azure Container Instances	Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Small Businesses	Portainer Score 9.3 out of 10	Portainer Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Score 9.2 out of 10	Docker Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises	Docker Score 9.2 out of 10	IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Score 9.2 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Azure Container Instances	Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	8.5 (5 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Azure Container Instances	Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft No answers on this topic	Microsoft At one instance, there was a fire in our data center and the backup power had some issues because of which the whole DC went down. I believe with AKS and the replication it's easier to handle such a situation. Also, the scenario would have been pretty transparent to the end-users. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Microsoft No answers on this topic	Microsoft Highly repeatable process Minimizes the amount of software to install Easily scale resources to meet demand Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Microsoft No answers on this topic	Microsoft Need to update cluster manually Policies cannot be updated for existing components if any change in policy every has to create cluster Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Microsoft No answers on this topic	Microsoft Microsoft support was really good, whenever we raise any ticket they come back to us within a couple of hours. Incentivized Mounika Chirasani Software Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft No answers on this topic	Microsoft The ability to create new instances (i.e. elastic provisioning) is probably the fastest with Azure Kubernetes Service compared to the alternatives that I have looked at. From a pricing perspective, Microsoft always seems to find a way to be more competitive in this area, and literally every other field they play in. Incentivized Scott Kennedy Director, eCommerce Analytics and Digital Marketing Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft No answers on this topic	Microsoft Positive impact in moving applications to cloud from the in-hose data center to save cost Sometimes got affected with some bugs on the AKS infrastructure but hasn't caused a big kios as our production footprint in AKS is not yet high Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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