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Amazon Elastic Container Service vs Google Container Engine comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Elastic Container Se...
Ranking in Container Management
7th
Ranking in Containers as a Service (CaaS)
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Google Container Engine
Ranking in Container Management
18th
Ranking in Containers as a Service (CaaS)
3rd
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 August 2025, in the Container Management category, the mindshare of Amazon Elastic Container Service is 1.4%, down from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Container Engine is 0.1%, down from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Container Management
 

Featured Reviews

FABIO NAGAO - PeerSpot reviewer
Horizontal scaling is streamlined when deploying modern workloads
Currently, when scaling with Amazon Elastic Container Service, I have to choose between monitoring CPU or memory usage to scale up or scale out; there is no option to monitor both simultaneously. This limitation makes it challenging to define a balanced scale-out automation since a well-written software should balance between processing and memory.
Hoang Do - PeerSpot reviewer
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 production environment is highly available, which nowadays is a requirement for all of the big companies."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its scalability."
"The solution is quite scalable and allows you to launch multiple EC2s within minutes."
"The product's most valuable feature is service discovery functionality. It is an excellent feature impacting cost reduction."
"It has helped our organization greatly and especially on weekends because we have many transactions as our users are buying some kind of tools and paying online."
"ECS is flexible and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature, after using Amazon EC2 Container Service for two years, is to set the availability and also for network throughput."
"It's quick and easy to have the solution working."
"The tool is very powerful, scalable, and easy to manage. Its autoscaling features helped us save costs."
 

Cons

"We noticed a problem where our container doesn't always run, and the traffic in our secured license exceeds 100%, leading to increased container costs. We are working to understand and reduce this traffic to control costs."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service's security can be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the licensing costs. There can be better licensing costs."
"The services are costly, which is one potential drawback. Additionally, when it comes to new-age services around AI, particularly in the areas of LLMs and genomics, these services are not fully available in our region's availability domain. These are the areas where improvement is required."
"The solution's stability is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service needs to improve the menu design. It needs to improve deployment with better documentation."
"Sometimes, the instances fail under the ECS container cluster, and we have to manually go and find out the black sheep in the ECS container instance. We had an issue earlier where one of the instances under the ECS container cluster went down, and we were not able to identify that instance. The instance got terminated, but a new instance did not come up. Therefore, I had to manually get that instance up. It could be optimized better. In production, we normally cannot sustain such things. It can be optimized in terms of instances, durability, and serving the requests of customers."
"My company has faced some stability issues with Amazon EC2 Container Service."
"Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"Our client is paying between $400 and $500 USD per month for this service."
"The tool's licensing is monthly."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service is priced high."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service is an expensive solution."
"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 worth the money."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service is an expensive solution."
"The tool's pricing is medium."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
27%
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
7%
Manufacturing Company
5%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon Elastic Container Service?
Implementing the product has helped me monitor the parameters. I utilize tools like CloudWatch and AWS systems to track these parameters. If any issues arise, I alert our developer team to address ...
What needs improvement with Amazon Elastic Container Service?
The solution must improve backup and compatibility around OS like Windows and Mac.
What do you like most about Google Container Engine?
The tool is very powerful, scalable, and easy to manage. Its autoscaling features helped us save costs.
What needs improvement with Google Container Engine?
Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products.
 

Also Known As

Amazon ECS, Amazon EC2 Container Service
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