Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) vs. IBM Cloud Private

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

IBM Cloud Private

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
IBM Cloud Private	Score 9.5 out of 10	N/A	IBM Cloud Private is a Kubernetes-based container platform allowing users to build cloud-native applications on their own infrastructure. In addition, it offers common services for self-service deployment, monitoring, logging and security, as well as middleware, data and analytics.	N/A

Pricing

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

IBM Cloud Private

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)	IBM Cloud Private
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)	IBM Cloud Private
Top Pros	Pro Good pricing Pro Continuous integration Pro Works fine	Pro Ibm cloud Pro Easy to use Pro Applications and services
Top Cons	Minus Learning curve Minus Little challenging Minus Steep learning curve	Minus Take longer Minus Brand name Minus Machine learning

Features

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

IBM Cloud Private

Platform-as-a-Service

Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
	Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - Ratings	IBM Cloud Private 9.7 5 Ratings 17% above category average
Ease of building user interfaces	00 Ratings	10.03 Ratings
Scalability	00 Ratings	10.05 Ratings
Platform management overhead	00 Ratings	10.04 Ratings
Workflow engine capability	00 Ratings	10.04 Ratings
Platform access control	00 Ratings	9.04 Ratings
Services-enabled integration	00 Ratings	9.04 Ratings
Development environment creation	00 Ratings	10.04 Ratings
Development environment replication	00 Ratings	10.04 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification	00 Ratings	9.04 Ratings
Issue recovery	00 Ratings	10.03 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes	00 Ratings	10.03 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)	IBM Cloud Private
Small Businesses	IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Score 9.3 out of 10	AWS Elastic Beanstalk Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Score 9.3 out of 10	AWS Elastic Beanstalk Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Score 9.3 out of 10	AWS Elastic Beanstalk Score 9.1 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)	IBM Cloud Private
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (5 ratings)	10.0 (5 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)	IBM Cloud Private
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	IBM IBM Cloud Private is an ideal platform for companies to accelerate their business growth. It helps in reducing the cost of IT and operations while delivering a great customer experience. With IBM Cloud Private, you can gain agility and security with a flexible hybrid model that fits your needs. It's highly recommended to my colleagues from me. Incentivized Nosava Begum Human Resources Manager Read full review
Pros	Microsoft Highly repeatable process Minimizes the amount of software to install Easily scale resources to meet demand Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM Capacity On Demand to scale up and down environments SaaS model allows our team to have less involvement in managing or controlling the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, storage, or even individual application capabilities. SaaS model allows our team to worry less about upgrades, fix packs, environment support etc. Incentivized Bhaskara Rudraraju Tech Consultant (ODM and BPM) Read full review
Cons	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	IBM Bluemix/IBM Cloud UI can be better Changing Brand name from Bluemix to IBM Cloud, as we are habituated to Bluemix more Incentivized Dinesh P Senior Infrastructure Engineer 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	IBM No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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	IBM With VMware cloud, each VMware Cloud customer must have an SDDC account(VMC) as well as a general AWS account. The two accounts must be linked for the service to work which is a tiresome thing to do for some clients but with IBM Cloud Private all these issues are solved. Incentivized Nosava Begum Human Resources Manager 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	IBM IBM Cloud has helped us start using the cloud and migrating old services to the cloud. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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