Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

73 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)	Score 8.0 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

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

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Community Pulse
	Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Considered Both Products	Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Verified User Manager Chose Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Integration with other standard azure services make Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) case strong. As we use most of the azure services it is easy to integrate. It is difficult to use EKS as the user interface is not intuitive and difficult to integrate. The services need to be … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Due to cost efficiency. And using AZURE cloud for other services as well. Azure Kubernetes Service is more suitable to configure CI/CD pipelines. With a facility of automated or One click deployment and integration of the application. As compared with other Kubernetes Services … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Worked with very similar in-house-built Kubernetes/container management system. We are leveraging AKS as it's more robust and stable being in the technical space for quite some time. Also, it has got a vast number of management and security features which makes it more … Incentivized Helpful? Scott Kennedy Director, eCommerce Analytics and Digital Marketing Chose Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) [Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)] is largely similar to EKS. I use both products fairly interchangeably and the decision comes down to which ecosystem you are part of and the which locations are important to you. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Container Management

Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
	Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) 5.6 1 Ratings 35% below category average
Security and Isolation	8.01 Ratings
Container Orchestration	8.01 Ratings
Cluster Management	2.01 Ratings
Storage Management	3.01 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization	9.01 Ratings
Discovery Tools	4.01 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks	1.01 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery	7.01 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging	8.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Small Businesses	Portainer Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (6 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Likelihood to Recommend	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 Scales quickly when the user base increases randomly Downgrades very fast if a bunch of users hop off the system Great dev UX for IT Incentivized Scott Kennedy Director, eCommerce Analytics and Digital Marketing Read full review
Cons	Microsoft Steep learning curve Expected charges are unclear until you see real production usage Operations teams need to learn an entirely new skill set Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Microsoft Barring certain missing features such as operator management , open cluster management, it does gives lot of options to host containerized applications. The GUI may be improved and can give user more insights to the cluster rather than using command line tools. The integration with standard azure monitoring tools is a big plus to use Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	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 Due to cost efficiency. And using AZURE cloud for other services as well. Azure Kubernetes Service is more suitable to configure CI/CD pipelines. With a facility of automated or One click deployment and integration of the application. As compared with other Kubernetes Services like Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service and Google Kubernetes Service, Azure Kubernetes is most cost-efficient with the same facilities and with an advantage to configure easily, manage easily, as it is one click manageable with Microsoft applications. It provides high Microsoft security to containers and secures applications from any kind of harm. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	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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