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Amazon Elastic Container Service vs Microsoft Azure Container Service comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft are both solutions in the Containers as a Service (CaaS) category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.5, while Microsoft is ranked #2. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 27.3% mindshare in CSC, compared to Microsoft’s 21.2% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.
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100% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between Amazon Elastic Container Service and Microsoft Azure Container Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Containers as a Service (CaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Elastic Container Se...
Ranking in Containers as a Service (CaaS)
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
Container Management (7th)
Microsoft Azure Container S...
Ranking in Containers as a Service (CaaS)
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Containers as a Service (CaaS) category, the mindshare of Amazon Elastic Container Service is 27.3%, down from 37.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure Container Service is 21.2%, down from 33.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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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.
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Charles Daou - PeerSpot reviewer
A nice hybrid solution that offers good visualization and an easy setup
It could be faster. The speed is not good in our country. The migration process takes a long time. We don't have fast internet services, and that slows us down. Standard support could be more helpful and responsive. We'd like to have more stable updates. It updates too often. Instead of updating more often, they should update less often and offer very stable updates.
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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."
"Scalability and availability are the most valuable features of Amazon Elastic Container Service."
"I like Amazon EC2 Container Service's elasticity."
"The product's most valuable feature is service discovery functionality. It is an excellent feature impacting cost reduction."
"In seven years, we have not faced a single second of downtime."
"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."
"The solution is easy to scale and implement and provides performance monitoring and management tools."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its scalability."
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"It's a great product if you are in a Microsoft environment."
"Visualization is the most important feature."
"Microsoft Azure Container Service has a good level of stability."
"The most valuable features are that it is simple, and the compression of the data."
"Storage is one of the most beneficial features of cloud providers, specifically Azure because when you are working in their cloud environment, you can easily use a storage interface and a storage object that is provided by Microsoft Azure. In a local environment, you have to be involved in establishing and setting up distributed storage file systems for containers which are very difficult and complex. In a cloud environment, you are not concerned about the storage and the dashboard provides you with storage objects with high availability."
"The product makes things easier since it's self-managed. Therefore, there is less administration workload and operational costs."
"The most valuable feature is that you don't have to maintain the infrastructure."
 

Cons

"My company has faced some stability issues with Amazon EC2 Container Service."
"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."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service’s initial setup is a bit difficult."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service should include more enterprise project management features, typically available in an OpenShift environment."
"I rate the platform's stability an eight out of ten. It easily dies."
"The pricing could be a bit better."
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the licensing costs. There can be better licensing costs."
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"Standard support could be more helpful and responsive."
"In the future, I would like to see it generalized and have the ability to better integrate with open-source tools."
"The customization is an area that needs improvement."
"In terms of the container strategy, they need to make it more compliant with the Linux OS."
"f Microsoft Azure can provide GUI dashboards for end-users and administrators to work separately to manage all the Kubernetes clusters without a need to connect to Azure environments and through CLI it would be better."
"I wasn't very impressed with the documentation."
"Since the product is fully managed, it is expensive."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Amazon Elastic Container Service has a decent price, which is neither cheap nor expensive."
"The solution's cost could be reduced."
"The solution is expensive, but not too much."
"Amazon Elastic Container Service's price is good."
"I rate the product's pricing an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."
"Amazon EC2 Container Service is an expensive solution."
"They offer a pay-as-you-go pricing model for the product."
"The tool's licensing is monthly."
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"The costs depend on the resources that you use, and there is a cost-management system to help calculate it."
"The solution's pricing is reasonable."
"Microsoft Azure Container Service has costs but in the container environment, there are no costs because it is open source and we are using Docker as the container engine in the master and worker nodes established in the Azure environment."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
27%
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
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Company Size

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Small Business
 

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 ...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Elastic Container Service?
The product's pricing is good.
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What needs improvement with Amazon Elastic Container Service?
The solution must improve backup and compatibility around OS like Windows and Mac.
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Also Known As

Amazon ECS, Amazon EC2 Container Service
MS Azure Container Service
 

Overview

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS. Amazon ECS eliminates the need for you to install and operate your own container orchestration software, manage and scale a cluster of virtual machines, or schedule containers on those virtual machines.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Azure Container Service optimizes the configuration of popular open source tools and technologies specifically for Azure. You get an open solution that offers portability for both your containers and your application configuration. You select the size, the number of hosts, and choice of orchestrator tools, and Container Service handles everything else.

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