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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) vs. Rafay

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Rafay
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
The Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform is a turnkey offering that automates Kubernetes cluster management, modern application deployment and operations at scale, from Rafay Systems in Sunnyvale. The platform enables development, operations and site reliability engineering teams to govern, manage and monitor multiple Kubernetes clusters and distros, and operating applications in Kubernetes environments running on-premise, in the cloud or at the Edge. Rafay is designed to accelerate platform…N/A
Pricing
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)Rafay
Editions & Modules
Amazon EKS Cluster
$.10
per hour of each cluster created
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon EKSRafay
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Container Management
Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
8.9
Ratings
14% above category average
Rafay
-
Ratings
Security and Isolation9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Container Orchestration8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cluster Management8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Storage Management9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Discovery Tools8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
User Ratings
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)Rafay
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)Rafay
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Rafay is well suited for managing K8 deployments in on-prem deployments as well as AWS. Their support for GKE seems a bit limited.
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Pros
  • 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
  • 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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  • Seamless Single Sign-On Integration
  • Use of a jumpstation to bootstrap a new EKS cluster deployment
  • Some information in the UI does not auto populate
  • UI can be enhanced a bit
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Usability
Cluster maintanence is reduced, easier to deploy resources, great observability insights
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So far our experience with using Rafay's platform has been very positive.
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Support Rating
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I have dealt with a lot of support organizations and am really glad to say that Rafay goes above and beyond expectations when it comes to supporting our teams.
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Alternatives Considered
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
  • 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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