ECS EKS Fargate Kops ECS is free of charge and you only pay for the compute costs $0.1 per hour per Kubernetes cluster (c. $74 per month) + compute costs Pricing calculated by resources used by applications running on ECS or EKS Kops is free of charge and you only pay for the compute costs A good match for those who are starting to explore microservices and containers Pick it if you’re ready to handle the scalability level of Kubernetes. Easy to automatically optimize cost with CAST AI Choose Fargate if you’re fine with it taking over server management (not a good fit for highly regulated environments) Simple to deploy No control plane Configuration and deployment directly from the AWS management console More complex deployment Configure and deploy pods via Kubernetes first Simple deployment No need to provision and manage servers All you need to do is specify and pay for resources per application Fast setup Kops manages most of the AWS resources you need Requires less expertise and operational knowledge of Kubernetes Requires expert Kubernetes configuration and management skills AWS proprietary technology. Risk of vendor lock-in Use if you want to launch containers without having to provision or manage EC2 instances (limited customization) Expertise required for managing clusters created with Kops Multi cloud portability AWS proprietary technology. Risk of vendor lock-in AWS proprietary technology. Risk of vendor lock-in AWS proprietary technology. Risk of vendor lock-in Open-source. Portable between different clouds Networking Limited number of ENIs per instance. Might not be enough to support all the containers you want running on a particular instance Greater flexibility in networking. You can share an ENI between multiple pods and place more pods per instance When running a Task, you can choose a VPC, subnet, public IP assignment, and Security Group. You’re responsible for managing the networking and security Supports many CNI providers and gives you a lot of freedom. You’re in charge of choosing your preferred CNI and its pros/cons Support Limited community assistance. Corporate AWS support Plenty of community support. Resources and community-maintained tools Limited community assistance. Plenty of materials provided by AWS Great community support, #kops channel on Kubernetes slack. The Kops team hosts office hours to help you get started. Pricing Deployment Good if you’re starting your Kubernetes journey. Easy to automatically optimize cost with CAST AI Read More On https://cast.ai/blog
