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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) vs. IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

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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

    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

    Score7.4 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is a managed Kubernetes offering, delivering user tools and built-in security for rapid delivery of applications that users can bind to cloud services related to IBM Watson®, IoT, DevOps and data analytics. As a certified K8s provider, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides intelligent scheduling, self-healing, horizontal scaling, service discovery and load balancing, automated rollouts and rollbacks, and secret and configuration management. The Kubernetes…N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon EKSIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Editions & Modules
    Amazon EKS Cluster
    $.10
    per hour of each cluster created
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon EKSIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon EKSIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
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    IBM
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Both services are very similar and work in a very similar way, both fulfilling their purpose well. IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service was chosen to test how a different platform from the traditional one would work during the execution of the project and whether it would perform well. …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    IBM Cloud is simple to use and has no custom requirements to start, Other products are not cost-efficient compared to IBM IKS.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    It's very fast, easy to navigate, and has more features and compatibility while using the GUI. Pricing is less compared to IBM.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    With the scalability, the management, the coordination, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service really empowers the whole IT team and gives the company more time back than we had before. It is a system that has the capability to manage where workloads are being distributed out and [do] …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    96%
    Would buy again
    22 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    20 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    21 Answers
    Features
    Amazon EKSIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
    8.9
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    7.5
    15 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Security and Isolation9.01 Ratings7.315 Ratings
    Container Orchestration8.01 Ratings8.115 Ratings
    Cluster Management8.01 Ratings6.415 Ratings
    Storage Management9.01 Ratings7.915 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization9.01 Ratings7.915 Ratings
    Discovery Tools8.01 Ratings7.115 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks9.01 Ratings7.915 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery10.01 Ratings7.314 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging10.01 Ratings7.315 Ratings
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    Amazon EKSIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
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    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    Score9.4 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
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    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon EKSIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (80 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.7
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (15 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon EKSIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    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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    IBM
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service also stands out in environments where the workloads vary continuously and require befitting scale. The product excels particularly in microservices structures, wherein the companies would harness the capacity for container orchestration and automated scaling. Still, it may face the challenges due to monolith applications that have not been originally developed for using container technology.
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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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    IBM
    • IBM has a strong focus on serverless and Kubernetes. This shows in the platform. Deploying containers to Kubernetes was very easy.
    • Deploying a Kubernetes cluster through the GUI is very easy and quick. On top of that, IBM Cloud offers a single node cluster for Free.
    • Container Registry is a very good product for managing container images. Integration with Kubernetes was seemless.
    • Portability. To transition from Google Cloud Kubernetes to IBM Cloud Kubernetes took almost no effort. We mostly use the CLI and the standard tools such as kubectl were present.
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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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    IBM
    • I constantly get this error even when everything is well configured prefect.exceptions.AuthorizationError: [{'path': ['auth_info'], 'message': 'AuthenticationError: Forbidden', 'extensions': {'code': 'UNAUTHENTICATED'}}]
    • Then sometimes the error disapear without changine anything, happened twice to me. Should there be an issue with the authentication service? Please let's improve or let users know why this may be happening.
    • Improve the UX in the browse console when removing many images at once
    • UX on the process of installing KeyCloack operator
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    We have our application running on a CentOS compartment on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. We have been utilizing the help since IBM Cloud initially dispatched. We liked the adaptability and versatility that IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service give us. Since we are tiny, the Kubernetes administration is just utilized at present inside my venture bunch.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    Cluster maintanence is reduced, easier to deploy resources, great observability insights
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    IBM
    We actually haven't had any real problems in our clusters recently and the results we have gotten from adopting IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service have been beyond even our greatest expectations. The community has helped optimize the use of the system and make it relatively simpler to use.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    IBM's cloud is almost infallible.
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    Performance
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    IBM's cloud has a site in my conuntry (MEXICO) so the network latency was almost 0
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    The self-guided support was solid, and there are plenty of online videos to guide first time users, but I think one area of improvement is a faster way to transfer a large quantity of files from our local machine to the cloud for storage (Aspera)
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    Online Training
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Online training is really an important resource for using these tools. IBM's help center is rich in useful information and tips. Also, external guides and tutorials are available (e.g. on youtube), but I followed only IBM ones and I had no difficulties.
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    Implementation Rating
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Ease of use. Very intuitive. We have been looking for a product that allows us to orchestrate our docker containers in a way where it allows us to effectively scale our applications to production. It also provides us a way of monitoring all our infrastructure in a very clear concise way.
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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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    IBM
    We mainly selected [IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service] because IBM fabric blockchain service is mostly compatible with it. To have all the infrastructure in a single cloud to get the best output we selected the [IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service].
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    Scalability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    IBM's CKS does not offers automatic autoscaling nor vertical scaling (automatic). Other services like Google Kubernetes Engine scales up and down very well
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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
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    IBM
    • Increased development speed and agility allows to build features faster and more economically.
    • Improved resource utilization helps keep applications running very efficiently, which saves on cloud service expenses.
    • Scalability and resilience allows for scaling up or down based on demand, which keeps applications running efficiently and more economically.
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