Alibaba Cloud Container Service vs. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Alibaba Cloud Container Service
Score 7.0 out of 10
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Alibaba Cloud Container Service is a scalable container application management service that enables the user to use Docker and Kubernetes to manage the lifecycle of containerized applications. Container Service offers a variety of application publishing methods and continuous delivery capabilities and supports microservice architectures.N/A
Amazon EKS
Score 8.5 out of 10
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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed container service to run and scale Kubernetes applications in the cloud or on-premises, available on AWS or on-premise through Amazon EKS Anywhere.
$0.10
per hour of each cluster created
Pricing
Alibaba Cloud Container ServiceAmazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Editions & Modules
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Amazon EKS Cluster
$.10
per hour of each cluster created
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Alibaba Cloud Container ServiceAmazon EKS
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
Alibaba Cloud Container ServiceAmazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Container Management
Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
Alibaba Cloud Container Service
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Ratings
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
8.9
Ratings
14% above category average
Security and Isolation00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Container Orchestration00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Cluster Management00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Storage Management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Discovery Tools00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
User Ratings
Alibaba Cloud Container ServiceAmazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Likelihood to Recommend
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9.0
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Usability
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9.0
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User Testimonials
Alibaba Cloud Container ServiceAmazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Likelihood to Recommend
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Well suited for microservices architecture but can be a bit costly if less number of microservices or monolithic architecture hosted to be hosted on containers. Use of hybrid cluster instances also works well using both normal and fargate instances. Also the integration of audit and diagnostic logs of master nodes helps to reduce the unwanted access related issues.
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Pros
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  • Upgrade the kubernetes clusters to the latest version with a single click
  • Auto scaling policies to automatically scale the nodes
  • Detailed logs and events on the cluster within the EKS clusters portal, cloudwatch logs and metrics
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Cons
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  • AWSIAM integration with Kubernetes RBAC could be better.
  • Enabling some add-ons like service mesh, and monitoring will be nice instead of having to install them yourself after the creation of the cluster.
  • EKS bootstrap time could be faster ...
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Usability
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Cluster maintanence is reduced, easier to deploy resources, great observability insights
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Alternatives Considered
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It feels like AWS is behind the EKS race, the only advantage I'm able to see right now is the support of IPv6, however, trying to promote AWS alternatives that are different from the market and more like a vendor locking solutions like ECS/Fargate have kept AWS behind and focusing on the wrong things. EKS needs to really improve its integration with the Kubernetes ecosystem and have an enterprise solution for monitoring, backups, and service mesh.
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Return on Investment
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  • Migrating all our workloads from ec2 VMs to containers running in Kubernetes has been a huge improvement for the management and resilience of our Infrastructure.
  • EKS Upgrade process to a new version seems to be taking very long ....
  • EKS creation time usually takes over 10 minutes in us-east-1, we would like faster creation times to be under 5 minutes.
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