Amazon EC2 Container Service vs AWS Fargate vs Google Kubernetes Engine

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Pros of Amazon EC2 Container Service
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Pros of Google Kubernetes Engine
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    Backed by amazon
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    Familiar to ec2
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    Cluster based
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    Simple API
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    Iam roles
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    Scheduler
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    Cluster management
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    Programmatic Control
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    Container-enabled applications
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    Socker support
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    No additional cost
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    Easy to use and cheap
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      Backed by Google
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      Powered by kubernetes
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      Docker
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      Scalable
    • 7
      Open source
    • 3
      Command line interface is intuitive
    • 3
      Decoupled app
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      Provisioning
    • 2
      Declarative management

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    Cons of Amazon EC2 Container Service
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        Expensive
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        What is Amazon EC2 Container Service?

        Amazon EC2 Container Service lets you launch and stop container-enabled applications with simple API calls, allows you to query the state of your cluster from a centralized service, and gives you access to many familiar Amazon EC2 features like security groups, EBS volumes and IAM roles.

        What is AWS Fargate?

        AWS Fargate is a technology for Amazon ECS and EKS* that allows you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters. With AWS Fargate, you no longer have to provision, configure, and scale clusters of virtual machines to run containers.

        What is Google Kubernetes Engine?

        Container Engine takes care of provisioning and maintaining the underlying virtual machine cluster, scaling your application, and operational logistics like logging, monitoring, and health management.

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        What are some alternatives to Amazon EC2 Container Service, AWS Fargate, and Google Kubernetes Engine?
        Kubernetes
        Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
        Git
        Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
        GitHub
        GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
        Visual Studio Code
        Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
        Docker
        The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
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