AWS Controllers for Kubernetes vs AWS Copilot: What are the differences?

What is AWS Controllers for Kubernetes? *A project enabling you to manage AWS services from Kubernetes *. It lets you define and use AWS service resources directly from Kubernetes. With ACK, you can take advantage of AWS managed services for your Kubernetes applications without needing to define resources outside of the cluster or run services that provide supporting capabilities like databases or message queues within the cluster.

What is AWS Copilot? A tool for developers to build, release and operate production ready containerized applications. It is a tool for developers to develop, release, and operate production-ready containerized applications on Amazon ECS. From getting started, pushing to staging and releasing to production, Copilot can help manage the entire lifecycle of your application development.

AWS Controllers for Kubernetes and AWS Copilot can be primarily classified as "Container" tools.

AWS Copilot is an open source tool with 881 GitHub stars and 84 GitHub forks. Here's a link to AWS Copilot's open source repository on GitHub.