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Amazon Elastic Container Service vs Red Hat OpenShift comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
2.7
Amazon ECS provides cost-efficient, scalable solutions, enabling organizations to reduce expenses and optimize resource allocation with a pay-as-you-go model.
Sentiment score
7.3
Organizations save time and money with Red Hat OpenShift, achieving improved scalability, efficiency, security, and performance.
This saving is achieved since, with EC2, the entire virtual machine must be running regardless of workload, whereas Fargate eliminates this cost.
Chief Technology Officer at Looplex SA
Time was the major thing which saved a lot, and in terms of resources, it has reduced resource utilization so the remaining users can focus on other tasks.
Server Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
With OpenShift combined with IBM Cloud App integration, I can spin an integration server in a second as compared to traditional methods, which could take days or weeks.
Platform Engineer & Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Moving to OpenShift resulted in increased system stability and reduced downtime, which contributed to operational efficiency.
Infrastructure Manager at Appzone Group
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.9
Amazon ECS customer service is generally positive, with rapid responses, enterprise support praise, and appreciated friendliness despite occasional delays.
Sentiment score
6.8
Red Hat OpenShift's customer service is praised for expertise but criticized for slow responses and delays in complex issue resolution.
AWS partnership provides access to their architects for guidance when needed.
Head of Products at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We do not rely heavily on technical support from AWS as we have our own teams managing the infrastructure.
General Manager at Vodafone Idea Ltd.
Red Hat's technical support is responsive and effective.
Infrastructure Manager at Appzone Group
Customer support is really good because so far in our case, we have always received a prompt response, and they have been really helpful to us.
ML Engineer - Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The response time for customer support is excellent, and they go deep and can resolve things easily.
Operation Director at Zaintech
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Amazon ECS excels in scalability with seamless autoscaling, but faces limitations in resource allocation affecting larger applications.
Sentiment score
7.4
Red Hat OpenShift offers scalable resource management, efficiently adjusting containers and nodes, with room for improvement in certain environments.
Amazon Elastic Container Service has a scalability rating of ten out of ten.
Chief Technology Officer at Looplex SA
Scalability becomes an inherent capability in the cloud context, and this service does well in that regard.
General Manager at Vodafone Idea Ltd.
Amazon Elastic Container Service has significant limitations regarding scalability.
Lead Developer at Virtual Restaurant Solutions
The on-demand provisioning of pods and auto-scaling, whether horizontal or vertical, is the best part.
Manager IT Infrastructure at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
OpenShift's horizontal pod scaling is more effective and efficient than that used in Kubernetes, making it a superior choice for scalability.
Platform Engineer & Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Red Hat OpenShift scales excellently, with a rating of ten out of ten.
System Analyst at Freelancer
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
6.8
Amazon Elastic Container Service is highly reliable with 99.99% uptime, though complexity can lead to occasional user errors.
Sentiment score
7.8
Red Hat OpenShift offers stable, reliable performance, efficiently handling container workloads and scaling across geolocations, despite occasional issues.
The stability of Amazon Elastic Container Service is excellent.
Chief Technology Officer at Looplex SA
Amazon Elastic Container Service is mostly very stable.
General Manager at Vodafone Idea Ltd.
Red Hat OpenShift can scale to thousands of nodes, allowing multiple clusters to be managed in different geolocations and managed by centralized advanced cluster management, ACM.
Operation Director at Zaintech
It provides better performance yet requires more resources compared to vanilla Kubernetes.
Platform Engineer & Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
I've had my cluster running for over four years.
Infrastructure Manager at Appzone Group
 

Room For Improvement

Amazon ECS struggles with usability, pricing complexity, and management, demanding improvements in security, reliability, and seamless user experience.
Red Hat OpenShift requires UI simplification, better deployment, security, autoscaling, cloud integration, and improved support for user satisfaction.
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.
Chief Technology Officer at Looplex SA
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.
General Manager at Vodafone Idea Ltd.
A lower price for Amazon Elastic Container Service would be better, but it is comparable to other offerings in the market, so it is on par in that sense.
Head of Products at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Learning OpenShift requires complex infrastructure, needing vCenter integration, more advanced answers, active directory, and more expensive hardware.
Platform Engineer & Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Red Hat OpenShift's biggest disadvantage is they do not provide any private cloud setup where we can host on our site using their services.
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
If I could change or improve one thing about Red Hat OpenShift, it would be to provide more information on the web because the information is limited and I need to explore more.
Manager Cybersecurity at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
 

Setup Cost

Amazon ECS offers cost-effective pay-as-you-go pricing, competitive with Azure, cheaper than Google, based on CPU and memory usage.
Red Hat OpenShift is costly compared to AKS, GKE, and EKS, but offers robust features and security.
Amazon Elastic Container Service is quite cheap compared to Google, particularly for hosting databases.
Chief Technology Officer at Looplex SA
Our customers often do a trade-off between requiring services at particular SLA levels and being willing to pay a premium price to us as partners.
General Manager at Vodafone Idea Ltd.
Initially, licensing was per CPU, with a memory cap, but the price has doubled, making it difficult to justify for clients with smaller compute needs.
Senior Technical Lead at MORO
The pricing for Red Hat OpenShift is considered quite high.
Manager for Middleware at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing shows that Red Hat OpenShift comes out as an expensive solution compared to having AKS, GKE, or EKS.
Lead Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Valuable Features

Amazon ECS offers scalable, cost-effective container management with easy AWS integration, simplifying deployment and enhancing reliability with Fargate.
Red Hat OpenShift enhances app deployment with security, scalability, DevOps integration, and supports cloud migration across AWS, Google, and Azure.
It inherently offers scalability by default, without our IT teams needing to take the extra load to make the services available for our end users.
General Manager at Vodafone Idea Ltd.
Main benefits that Amazon Elastic Container Service provides include saving maintenance costs in terms of saving time, and since it auto scales, we save on infrastructure costs by running at lower instances when it is not heavily used.
Head of Products at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Availability is the most valuable feature because if containers are hosted on Amazon Elastic Container Service, they are truly available and do not go down.
Manager, Engineering at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Because it was centrally managed in our company, many metrics that we had to write code for were available out of the box, including utilization, CPU utilization, memory, and similar metrics.
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The main benefits Red Hat OpenShift provides for me as a final user include the capacity to integrate third-party tools and also the integration between observability, security, and monitoring capacities.
Architect Projects at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
This is one of the main things, in addition to having integration with ACM and ACS, where we can have the ability to manage multiple clusters and to secure them, deploy them, manage them, run GitOps and day-two operations, as well as upgrades and other functionality which is made easy using these tools.
Operation Director at Zaintech
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Elastic Container Se...
Ranking in Container Management
10th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
Containers as a Service (CaaS) (1st)
Red Hat OpenShift
Ranking in Container Management
7th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
71
Ranking in other categories
PaaS Clouds (3rd), Server Virtualization Software (6th), Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms (4th), Agile and DevOps Services (1st)
 

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 Red Hat OpenShift is 4.6%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Container Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Red Hat OpenShift4.6%
Amazon Elastic Container Service1.7%
Other93.7%
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.
Pratul Shukla - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Adopting a flexible and efficient approach with noticeable improvements in operational costs and continued challenges in job management
Currently, one of the biggest challenges we face is with services and jobs. For spawning batches, although it has crons, it is not easy to integrate with enterprise systems such as Autosys. The entire company uses Autosys, but we are not able to integrate it effectively. We need intermediate servers to run OC utility commands and initiate the cron job. We have to do a lot of modifications to ensure our batches work properly. With physical or virtual servers, even in AWS, we are able to write and manage multiple jobs. Managing batches in Red Hat OpenShift has been a significant challenge. Integrating third parties is a challenge with Red Hat OpenShift. For example, with Elasticsearch, onboarding itself was difficult, running file beats and dealing with routing issues. It is not straightforward, especially since we have some components in AWS as. AWS has many capabilities that come out of the box and are easier to work with compared to Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat OpenShift's biggest disadvantage is they do not provide any private cloud setup where we can host on our site using their services. The main reason we went with Red Hat OpenShift was because it is a private cloud, and we have regulatory requirements that prevent us from using public cloud.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Construction Company
15%
Computer Software Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
23%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business28
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise19
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise53
 

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...
How does OpenShift compare with Amazon AWS?
Open Shift makes managing infrastructure easy because of self-healing and automatic scaling. There is also a wonderful dashboard mechanism to alert us in case the application is over-committing or ...
Which would you recommend - Pivotal Cloud Foundry or OpenShift?
Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a cloud-native application platform to simplify app delivery. It is efficient and effective. The best feature is how easy it is to handle external services such as database...
What needs improvement with OpenShift?
Areas where Red Hat OpenShift can be improved include the licensing being a bit complex and maybe expensive, as that is something in the hands of the organization's higher management, especially wh...
 

Also Known As

Amazon ECS, Amazon EC2 Container Service
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Ubisoft, GoPro, TIBCO, Remind
UPS, Cathay Pacific, Hilton
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