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. Google holds a 12.7% mindshare in CSC, compared to Microsoft’s 24.0% 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 (18th)

Microsoft Azure Container S...

Ranking in Containers as a Service (CaaS)

2nd

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Containers as a Service (CaaS) category, the mindshare of Google Container Engine is 12.7%, up from 7.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure Container Service is 24.0%, down from 33.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Charles Daou

Senior system Engineer at Soft Flow

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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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."

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

"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."

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

"Visualization is the most important feature."

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

Cons

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool's pricing is medium."

"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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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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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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