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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) vs. Mirantis Kubernetes Engine

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon EKS

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AAmazon 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 month

    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AThe Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise, acquired by Mirantis in November 2019)aims to let users ship code faster. Mirantis Kubernetes Engine gives users one set of APIs and tools to deploy, manage, and observe secure-by-default, certified, batteries-included Kubernetes clusters on any infrastructure: public cloud, private cloud, or bare metal.

    $500

    per year per node

    Pricing
    Amazon EKSMirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Editions & Modules
    Amazon EKS Cluster
    $.10
    per hour of each cluster created
    Free
    $0.00
    per year
    Basic
    $500.00
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon EKSMirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—These pricing options are compatible with Linux or Windows Server and are per year, per node. The basic version requires maximum online purchase not to exceed 50 nodes. Support/professional services are not included.
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon EKSMirantis Kubernetes Engine
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    Amazon AWS
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    Mirantis
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    83%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    80%
    Delivers good value for the price
    4 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
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    Features
    Amazon EKSMirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
    8.9
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    -
    Ratings
    Security and Isolation9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Container Orchestration8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cluster Management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Storage Management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Discovery Tools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Amazon EKSMirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Small Businesses
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Portainer
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Score7.4 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Score7.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon EKSMirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.3
    (37 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon EKSMirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    It is well suited when you want to have a Kubernetes cluster in AWS Cloud and want to avoid all the management overhead of maintaining your own cluster in terms of the control plane. EKS seems to be lacking in features when compared with AKS and GKE. Backups, service mesh, and monitoring have a lot of room for improvements.
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    Mirantis
    [Mirantis Cloud Native Suite (Docker Enterprise)] is the most advanced tool till now, which works as a VMs
    and separates any single application from the dependencies. Also, this tool is
    helping me in the agile development of the processes. It is strongly recommended to
    almost all major organizations.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • 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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    Mirantis
    • Containers - Docker is the go-to when using Containers, which are super useful if you need an environment that works both for Windows and Linux
    • Efficiency - Docker is very lightweight and doesn't demand too much from your CPU or server
    • CI/CD - Docker is excellent for plumbing into your build pipeline. It integrates nicely, is reliable, and has an easy set up.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • 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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    Mirantis
    • Containers are often opaque - if a container doesn't work out of the box, it's messy to fix.
    • Logging is complexified by the multiple containers and logs are often not piped to places you expect them to be.
    • Networking is complexified due to internal port mapping between containers, etc.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    Cluster maintanence is reduced, easier to deploy resources, great observability insights
    Incentivized
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    Mirantis
    Docker's CLI has a lot of options, and they aren't all intuitive. And there are so many tools in the space (Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, etc) that have their own configuration as well. So while there is a lot to learn, most concepts transfer easily and can be learned once and applied across everything.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Mirantis
    The community support for Docker is fantastic. There is almost always an answer for any issue I might encounter day-to-day, either on Stack Overflow, a helpful blog post, or the community Slack workspace. I've never come across a problem that I was unable to solve via some searching around in the community.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    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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    Mirantis
    We've used XAMPP, PHPmyAdmin and similar local environments (our app is on PHP). Because of how easy you can change the configuration of libraries on PHP and versions (which is SO painful on XAMPP or other friendly LAMP local servers) we are using Docker right now. Also, being sure that the environment is exactly the same makes things easier for developing.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Good performance of platform without hiccups
    • Less number of people required to manage cluster
    • Easier to deploy new microservices
    Incentivized
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    Mirantis
    • Docker has made it possible for us to deploy code faster, increasing the productivity of our development teams.
    • Docker has made it possible for us to decentralize our build and release system. This means that teams can deploy on their own schedule and our dev ops team can concentrate on building better tools rather than deploying for the teams
    • Docker has allowed us to virtualize our entire development process and made it much simpler to build out new data centers. This, in turn, is significantly increasing our ROI by providing a path forward for internationalization.
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