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Amazon Elastic Container Service vs Google Container Engine comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Elastic Container Se...
Ranking in Container Management
10th
Ranking in Containers as a Service (CaaS)
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Google Container Engine
Ranking in Container Management
23rd
Ranking in Containers as a Service (CaaS)
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.1
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Container Management category, the mindshare of Amazon Elastic Container Service is 1.7%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Container Engine is 0.8%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Container Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Elastic Container Service1.7%
Google Container Engine0.8%
Other97.5%
Container Management
 

Featured Reviews

AG
Lead Developer at Virtual Restaurant Solutions
Starts strong with functionalities but reveals cost limitations
The main challenge with Amazon Elastic Container Service is the significant learning curve. Everything mentioned took months to understand. It is not for the faint of heart. Though they have graphical interfaces and numerous dashboards that help create all the services graphically, learning to use Bash can be challenging. Because these are headless servers by nature, there is no graphical interface. It is not similar to Windows where you can hit the start button and look for your program, or Mac where you can look for programs on your desktop. Instead, users must understand this new paradigm of a Linux headless server, which requires using command-based prompts for builds and development.
Hoang Do - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at The Digital Group Inc
Has autoscaling features that helps to save costs
We use the solution to deploy microservices.  The tool is very powerful, scalable, and easy to manage. Its autoscaling features helped us save costs.  Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products.  I have been using the product for two years.  I rate the product's…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The containerization is a valuable feature for us."
"Our platform stability has rated from 97%, 98% to 99.99% and we are pretty much happy with the stability of Amazon Elastic Container Service."
"The production environment is highly available, which nowadays is a requirement for all of the big companies."
"For me, the best feature of ECS is Fargate because I don't have to manage anything, instead everything is managed by AWS and all I have to do, in essence, is configure my containers and deploy them."
"It has an Auto Scaling group feature. We can use this feature to have an Auto Scaling group to specify a minimum and maximum count for all types of configurations. Based on the specified values, Amazon Elastic Container Service scales the required CPU environmental metrics."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service has multiple valuable features like load balancers and autoscalers."
"We use the product for website and email database hosting."
"Once you get the procedure right, and set a pattern, it just works."
"The tool is very powerful, scalable, and easy to manage. Its autoscaling features helped us save costs."
 

Cons

"Amazon Elastic Container Service’s initial setup is a bit difficult."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service's security can be improved."
"Visualization is an important factor for me, and I don't think that the visuals within ECS are good enough because it doesn't show you all the details you might need to see at a glance."
"There is room for improvement in the licensing costs. There can be better licensing costs."
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"The pricing could be a bit better."
"After the load balancer gets attached to Amazon Elastic Container Service clusters, I can't modify, remove, or replace it later."
"The solution must improve backup and compatibility around OS like Windows and Mac."
"Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't know the exact amount we were charged for our use of ECS, but I do know that it can be costly, especially when there is a bug or an error caused by default configurations."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service is an expensive solution."
"We have to pay a monthly licensing fee for Amazon EC2 Container Service."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price, I rate Amazon EC2 Container Service’s pricing a four or five out of ten."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service has a decent price, which is neither cheap nor expensive."
"The tool's cost is good."
"The tool's licensing is monthly."
"If you increase the sizes, you incur costs to your accounts."
"The tool's pricing is medium."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Construction Company
15%
Computer Software Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
7%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business28
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise19
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon EC2 Container Service?
I am not certain about potential improvement areas for Amazon. However, I think the UI should be enhanced to better visualize things.
What is your primary use case for Amazon EC2 Container Service?
Amazon Elastic Container Service is used for hosting different applications in a container environment. It makes it somewhat easy to host applications, and as one of the AWS-provided solutions, it ...
What advice do you have for others considering Amazon EC2 Container Service?
I combine Checkmarx, Infosec, and AWS solutions. I work with Amazon solutions such as Amazon Elastic Container Service, Kubernetes, and some of the AI solutions, including Bedrock; these are some o...
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Also Known As

Amazon ECS, Amazon EC2 Container Service
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Sample Customers

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