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    Azure Container Apps

    Score6.7 out of 10
    N/AAzure Container Apps, part of the Azure suite of products from Microsoft, is a service used to deploy containerized apps without managing complex infrastructure. Users can write code using a preferred programming language or framework, and build microservices with full support for Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr). Scale dynamically based on HTTP traffic or events powered by Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA).N/A

    Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft'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
    Pricing
    Azure Container AppsAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Editions & Modules
    vCPU (seconds)
    active usage $0.000024 and idle usage $0.000003
    per second 180,000 vCPU-seconds free grant per month
    Memory (GiB-Seconds)
    active usage $0.000003 and idle usage $0.000003
    per second 360,000 GiB-seconds free grant per month
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Azure Container AppsAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    Microsoft
    Chose Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Integration with other standard azure services make Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) case strong. As we use most of the azure services it is easy to integrate. It is difficult to use EKS as the user interface is not intuitive and difficult to integrate. The services need to be …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Azure Container AppsAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Azure Container Apps and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Feature
    Azure Container Apps
    5.3
    2 Ratings
    40% below category average
    Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces5.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability7.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability5.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control4.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration4.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation4.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification5.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes5.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Azure Container Apps and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Feature
    Azure Container Apps
    -
    Ratings
    Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    5.6
    1 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Security and Isolation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Container Orchestration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Cluster Management00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
    Storage Management00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Discovery Tools00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Azure Container AppsAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score6 out of 10
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score7.3 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Score7.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure Container AppsAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.6
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure Container AppsAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Azure Container Apps is a welcome addition for sure. Based on my experience, this has enabled us to move fully to the cloud and managed everywhere in one spot and on the go. We can scale it to our end as much as we would like. It can be assess anywhere and it is fully secure
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    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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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Gives user a level of autonomous access
    • No control plane or node pool to manage
    • Less kubernetes experience required
    • Easily integrate with Azure devops
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    Microsoft
    • Scales quickly when the user base increases randomly
    • Downgrades very fast if a bunch of users hop off the system
    • Great dev UX for IT
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Continue to enhance security
    • Better pricing
    • Flexibility
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    Microsoft
    • Steep learning curve
    • Expected charges are unclear until you see real production usage
    • Operations teams need to learn an entirely new skill set
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    I would rather use AKS for my critical applications. The fact that the deployment process is dependent on as cli makes it hard for us to integrate with our standard CI/CD tools
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    Microsoft
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    Azure Container Apps are fantastic and it is a game changer. I would recommend it to anyone considering it. As you can scale it to what you would like and it is fully cloud native with better security. It is a no brainier not to consider it. I do believe that with further improve it will become even more attractive
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    Microsoft
    Barring certain missing features such as operator management , open cluster management, it does gives lot of options to host containerized applications. The GUI may be improved and can give user more insights to the cluster rather than using command line tools. The integration with standard azure monitoring tools is a big plus to use Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft support was really good, whenever we raise any ticket they come back to us within a couple of hours.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
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    Microsoft
    Due to cost efficiency. And using AZURE cloud for other services as well. Azure Kubernetes Service is more suitable to configure CI/CD pipelines. With a facility of automated or One click deployment and integration of the application. As compared with other Kubernetes Services like Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service and Google Kubernetes Service, Azure Kubernetes is most cost-efficient with the same facilities and with an advantage to configure easily, manage easily, as it is one click manageable with Microsoft applications. It provides high Microsoft security to containers and secures applications from any kind of harm.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • As it is cloud native, we no longer required to have onsite prem
    • Reducing both from an energy and security perspective
    • It is worth the investment as we have saved about 10% of our ICT cost
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    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
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