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Azure Container Apps vs Google Kubernetes Engine comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Container Apps
Ranking in Container Management
18th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.1
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Google Kubernetes Engine
Ranking in Container Management
11th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2858520 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Modernization has accelerated cloud migration and now delivers resilient, flexible microservices
I consider the best features offered by Azure Container Apps to be power, event-based scaling, and ease of management. The power of event-based scaling and the ease of management have benefited my team and my projects by allowing the applications to be very flexible since they can scale based on process queue sizes or HTTP requests and for many other reasons such as entries in a Redis cache. Azure Container Apps has positively impacted my organization by making the migration of these applications easier, speeding up these migration processes and achieving greater resilience of the applications in the cloud. I have measured that impact in terms of improvements in resilience, which are very important because we move to having microservices deployed in several availability zones, with autoscaling, and as a result, they are very flexible and very reliable.
ParthasarathyT - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Publicis Sapient
Managed solutions enable efficient handling of web applications and migration projects
Google Kubernetes Engine can be improved by enabling the in-place upgrade of the machine type of an existing node pool since I currently need to destroy and recreate it. There is no feature present where I can upgrade directly, and having more than 1,000 to 2,000 workloads in one node pool makes changing the node pool name difficult for all those workloads. I choose eight out of ten mainly because of the node pool upgrade challenge I mentioned, but also because of the existence of Anthos service mesh, which is the ingress controller available only for the enterprise Kubernetes Engine. It would be beneficial if it could be offered in the normal Kubernetes Engine with any limitations.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Azure Container Apps has positively impacted my organization by making the migration of these applications easier, speeding up these migration processes and achieving greater resilience of the applications in the cloud."
"The logs are important for detecting problems in our clusters."
"Before using this solution, it was a lot of manual tasks and a lot of people participated in the process."
"Stability-wise, this solution is really good."
"Google Kubernetes Engine has positively impacted my organization in migration-based projects such as on-prem to GCP and AWS to GCP, as we migrated more than thousands, even 10,000s workload in Google Kubernetes Engine."
"The solution is available across AWS, GCP and Azure and is seamless."
"The most valuable feature of Google Kubernetes Engine is how you can automatically scale and load balance."
"We appreciate that it is quite easy to set up a Kubernetes cluster in Google Cloud, using the managed services within this solution."
"The product has valuable security features. It can connect with multiple DevOps tools."
 

Cons

"Azure Container Apps could be improved if the Azure RM Terraform provider could have full implementation of all its capabilities since right now it does not."
"It should support the latest GP use. I also think it should support load balancing."
"The solution does not have a visual interface."
"I have created a couple of issues with Google tech support, and I am not satisfied with the assistance I received."
"Log observability could be made easier so someone from high school can use it without having technological expertise."
"Google Kubernetes Engine is less stable in some highly complex deployments with many nodes."
"The support is not that great. I rate the support a three or four out of ten."
"It needs to support load balancing."
"Google Kubernetes Engine can be improved by enabling the in-place upgrade of the machine type of an existing node pool since I currently need to destroy and recreate it."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The price for Google Kubernetes Engine could be lower - I'd rate its pricing at three out of five."
"The product is a little bit expensive."
"The solution's price is reasonable."
"I rate the product's price a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price. The product is competitively priced."
"It is competitive, and it is not expensive. It is almost competitive with AWS and the rest of the cloud solutions. We are spending around 3K USD per month. There are four projects that are currently running, and each one is incurring a cost of around 3K USD."
"Initially, Google Kubernetes Engine was a little bit cheaper, but now its prices have been increased compared to the pricing model and the features that are made available by its competitors."
"Its pricing is good. They bill us only per user. That's nice."
"We are planning to use external support, and hire a commercial partner for it."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
43%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Media Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Healthcare Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business21
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise17
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Container Apps?
My experience with the implementation cost, pricing, and licensing of Azure Container Apps includes some difficulty with the Azure calculator to obtain the expected costs, but in general, it is a p...
What needs improvement with Azure Container Apps?
Azure Container Apps could be improved if the Azure RM Terraform provider could have full implementation of all its capabilities since right now it does not.
What is your primary use case for Azure Container Apps?
My main use case for Azure Container Apps is application modernization from on-premises to the cloud. A specific example of how I have used Azure Container Apps in one of those modernization projec...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Kubernetes Engine?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Google Kubernetes Engine is straightforward, as I previously indicated. The need for humans is reduced with GCP since there is no need for ...
What needs improvement with Google Kubernetes Engine?
The price could be a bit cheaper. I don't see anything with Google Kubernetes Engine that needs to be improved. I think they are already implementing Kubernetes itself, so they are the owners. Howe...
What is your primary use case for Google Kubernetes Engine?
I use Google Kubernetes Engine for many purposes, most notably for websites, but the websites are microservices. However, some mega projects have many machines that needed to be containerized, so w...
 

Also Known As

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GKE, Google Kubernetes
 

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