Amazon Elastic Container Service vs Microsoft Azure Container Service comparison

Amazon Elastic Container Service vs. Microsoft Azure Container Service

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Elastic Container Se...

Ranking in Containers as a Service (CaaS)

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Container Management (8th)

Microsoft Azure Container S...

Ranking in Containers as a Service (CaaS)

2nd

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Containers as a Service (CaaS) category, the mindshare of Amazon Elastic Container Service is 22.7%, down from 38.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure Container Service is 24.2%, down from 30.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Containers as a Service (CaaS) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Amazon Elastic Container Service	22.7%
Microsoft Azure Container Service	24.2%
Other	53.1%

Containers as a Service (CaaS)

Featured Reviews

FABIO NAGAO

Chief Technology Officer at Looplex SA

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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PuneetKaura

Vice President of Sales and Operations at Aquila Clouds

Comprehensive ecosystem enhances development and cost management capabilities

The CI/CD capabilities are important because we do development. We use both development and production on Microsoft Azure. The CI/CD capabilities help in the development process. For the technical side, I would need to get back to some of my programmers, but we use the complete Microsoft Azure side for all of our development work. The CI/CD helps in the complete process for our team. As we move into the use of Microsoft Azure Container Service, it will make us more flexible and probably reduce our costs down the line. They can probably handle peak traffic and other things better than the older way of doing it. Microsoft Azure Container Service helps to optimize resources and save costs by allowing our product to handle it through this containerization method. When there is not too much traffic, we will be able to bring it down to the minimum, which would give us good cost savings. For our usage of Microsoft Azure Container Service, it is already helping us. For improvements, I don't have any recommendations currently because we have just gotten into it. What is available is good for the work we do. Regarding monitoring tools in AKS, we use them and understand how the environments are working through the tools. We use those for analytics and scaling of the environments. They help us in all our environments, and we can look into them. As required, we can downscale, upscale, and perform other operations because of the available tools.

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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."

"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 user-friendly."

"I like Amazon EC2 Container Service's elasticity."

"ECS is flexible and easy to use."

"The solution's technical support is good."

"The solution is simple to access."

More Amazon Elastic Container Service pros

"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 most valuable feature is that you don't have to maintain the infrastructure."

"The product makes things easier since it's self-managed. Therefore, there is less administration workload and operational costs."

"Visualization is the most important feature."

"The most valuable features are that it is simple, and the compression of the data."

"It's a great product if you are in a Microsoft environment."

"Microsoft Azure Container Service has a good level of stability."

Cons

"Amazon EC2 Container Service should include more enterprise project management features, typically available in an OpenShift environment."

"Probably, they should include automated graphing, and monitoring solutions."

"After the load balancer gets attached to Amazon Elastic Container Service clusters, I can't modify, remove, or replace it later."

"The product should improve its price."

"EC2 is not self-explanatory enough."

"I think that it would help if the vendor provided more use cases and explanations as to how ECS can be utilized."

"While it is generally stable, there have been some issues, especially when working on client projects where troubleshooting was needed."

"My company has faced some stability issues with Amazon EC2 Container Service."

More Amazon Elastic Container Service cons

"Since the product is fully managed, it is expensive."

"In terms of the container strategy, they need to make it more compliant with the Linux OS."

"Standard support could be more helpful and responsive."

"I wasn't very impressed with the documentation."

"In the future, I would like to see it generalized and have the ability to better integrate with open-source tools."

"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."

"The customization is an area that needs improvement."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the product's pricing an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"The pricing is good."

"There is no need to pay anything towards the licensing costs of Amazon EC2 Container Service."

"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."

"The tool's cost is good."

"Amazon Elastic Container Service's price is good."

"The solution is pricey."

"If you increase the sizes, you incur costs to your accounts."

More Amazon Elastic Container Service pricing and cost advice

"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."

"The solution's pricing is reasonable."

"The costs depend on the resources that you use, and there is a cost-management system to help calculate it."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

25%

Computer Software Company

16%

Government

Transportation Company

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	27
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	18

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Elastic Container Service?

The product's pricing is good.

What needs improvement with Amazon Elastic Container Service?

The solution must improve backup and compatibility around OS like Windows and Mac.

What needs improvement with Microsoft Azure Container Service?

Better triggers around when we change or when we increase and decrease the environment would be helpful. The cost of Microsoft Azure Container Service could be better. There are many programs that ...

What is your primary use case for Microsoft Azure Container Service?

We are a SaaS software company, so we use the solution for putting our product and then going back to customers. Approximately 15 to 20 people are currently working with Microsoft Azure Container S...

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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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Amazon Elastic Container Service vs. Microsoft Azure Container Service