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Azure Container Instances vs. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure Container Instances

    Score5.9 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's Azure Container Instances allows developers to focus on building apps without managing virtual machines or having to learn new tools—it's just the application, in a container, running in the cloud.

    $0.01

    Per GB Per Hour

    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 InstancesAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Editions & Modules
    Memory
    $0.00533
    Per GB Per Hour
    vCPU
    $0.04860
    Per vCPU
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure Container InstancesAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    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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    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    Features
    Azure Container InstancesAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Azure Container Instances and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Feature
    Azure Container Instances
    -
    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
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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Enterprises
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    Score7.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure Container InstancesAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure Container InstancesAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
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    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.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
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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
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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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    Usability
    Microsoft
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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
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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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