Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) vs GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

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Entertainment Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Unlike other providers, Springs doesn’t use a pre-built container solution, instead opting for their own software built from the ground up.

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Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Pros

Highly repeatable process
Minimizes the amount of software to install
Easily scale resources to meet demand

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Manager in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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Container hosting, cloud virtualization
Elastic capacity scaling and pay-per-use billing
Linux kernel containerization technologies for container isolation and control

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Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Need to update cluster manually
Policies cannot be updated for existing components
if any change in policy every has to create cluster

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Team Lead in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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Provide more options at lower costs
It would be nice to see that expanded out to more distributions. What would be potentially even better though is templates. Some hosts can deploy ready-to-run WordPress/Drupal sites, LAMP instances, ownCloud instances, etc. at the drop of a hat. If Springs could replicate this with their container hosting they’d immediately appeal to a much, much wider audience;

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Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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Support Rating

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) 9.0

Based on 2 answers

Microsoft support was really good, whenever we raise any ticket they come back to us within a couple of hours.

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Mounika Chirasani

Software Engineer

JDA SoftwareComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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.

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Scott Kennedy

Director, eCommerce Analytics and Digital Marketing

Franklin SportsSporting Goods, 201-500 employees

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Springs is drastically cheaper than running 4 OVH servers, and a little cheaper than running nano instances on AWS.

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Team Lead in Engineering

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

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

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Entertainment Company, 1001-5000 employees

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In the beginning I wasn’t sure what I should set it to for my web server, so I left it. After a while the Average usage area begins showing how much resource the container is demanding and from that more adequate limits can be set.
Springs is drastically cheaper than running 4 OVH servers, and a little cheaper than running nano instances on AWS.

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) vs GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued