Google Container Engine vs Microsoft Azure Container Service comparison

Google and Microsoft are both solutions in the Containers as a Service (CaaS) category. Google is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.0, while Microsoft is ranked #2 with an average rating of 10.0. Google holds a 9.2% mindshare in CSC, compared to Microsoft’s 24.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

Google Container Engine

Ranking in Containers as a Service (CaaS)

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

8.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Container Management (17th)

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 Google Container Engine is 9.2%, down from 12.5% 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 (%)
Microsoft Azure Container Service	24.2%
Google Container Engine	9.2%
Other	66.6%

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Hoang Do

DevOps Engineer at The Digital Group Inc

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…

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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 tool is very powerful, scalable, and easy to manage. Its autoscaling features helped us save costs."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"Visualization is the most important feature."

Cons

"Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products."

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

"Standard support could be more helpful and responsive."

"The customization is an area that needs improvement."

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

"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."

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

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

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool's pricing is medium."

"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 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."

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

Questions from the Community

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.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Container Engine?

The tool's pricing is medium.

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What needs improvement with Google Container Engine?

Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products.

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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 ...

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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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Overview

Google Container Engine is a powerful cluster manager and orchestration system for running your Docker containers. Container Engine schedules your containers into the cluster and manages them automatically based on requirements you define (such as CPU and memory). It's built on the open source Kubernetes system, giving you the flexibility to take advantage of on-premises, hybrid, or public cloud infrastructure.

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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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