Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

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Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)	Score 8.4 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 Engineer Chose Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) This depends fully on your needs respectively what you expect or the amount of work you can deal with. Both services are not the silver bullet that will take care of all your pain points. It is needed to analyze/evaluate them carefully and then decide which makes the most … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Amazon EKS stacked up very well and had better performance in some areas. However, Azure Kubernetes Service was a better fit given our Azure environment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) AKS is more powerful than Azure App Service for containers, but it is also very complex. It is great for running large container-based applications and microservices, but you need some Kubernetes knowledge to manage it. When compared to EKS, both AKS & Azure App Service are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User C-Level Executive Chose Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Straight from the beginning, the Github connections are simpler, the permissions and access for users is simpler. Certificate renewal doesn't need to be a worry. There is an option of node-auto provisioning. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) makes you do all of the above with less … Incentivized Helpful? 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) 7.6 5 Ratings 7% below category average
Security and Isolation	8.65 Ratings
Container Orchestration	8.05 Ratings
Cluster Management	7.45 Ratings
Storage Management	7.45 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization	8.05 Ratings
Discovery Tools	6.95 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks	6.45 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery	8.05 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging	7.65 Ratings

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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 AKS works very well for running containerized applications that require high availability and scalability. This includes systems like our HRIS platform and customer-facing web applications. AKS is a good choice when applications are broken into multiple services that need independent scaling and deployment. It provides the flexibility needed to manage these architectures effectively. But for single, low-traffic applications or simple internal tools, AKS can be overkill. For scenarios like that Azure App Service would be better. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Microsoft AKS makes it easier to replicate data to multiple regions Azure portal make it easier to manage the resources of the organization Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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 As already said, the UI/CLI and even terraform are perfectly fine, but certain details could be documented better. For instance, if I want to secure the whole Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with my own managed keys, then it is very complex and hard to get there. Not really a single source that gives you the whole picture. Besides that, it is still good to use, in most cases intuitive but details mentioned as above can be tricky. 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 Amazon EKS stacked up very well and had better performance in some areas. However, Azure Kubernetes Service was a better fit given our Azure environment. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft We had to spend more time on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) than on AWS and GCP to get our kubernetes cluster up and running The resources on nodes need to be left out unused, so effectively it is wasting money there It definitely made us spend more time into maintaining kubernetes Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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