Azure Container Service vs Hyper: What are the differences?

What is Azure Container Service? Deploy and manage containers using the tools you choose. 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.

What is Hyper? On-Demand Container, Per-Second Billing. Hyper.sh is a secure container hosting service. What makes it different from AWS (Amazon Web Services) is that you don't start servers, but start docker images directly from Docker Hub or other registries.

Azure Container Service and Hyper can be primarily classified as "Containers as a Service" tools.

Some of the features offered by Azure Container Service are:

• Create a container hosting solution optimized for Azure
• Scale and orchestrate applications using Apache Mesos or Docker Swarm
• Use popular open source, client-side tooling

On the other hand, Hyper provides the following key features:

• Hyper is able to launch instances in sub-second. Also, Hyper requires the minimal resource footprint: ~12MB mem
• Hyper is immune from the "shared kernel" problem in container
• Hyper is hypervisor agnostic