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Compare AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

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At a Glance
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Star Rating
(195)4.2 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (34.3% of reviews)
Information
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Star Rating
(276)4.3 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (46.9% of reviews)
Information
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
Learn more about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

AWS Elastic Beanstalk vs Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found AWS Elastic Beanstalk easier to use and set up. However, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is easier to administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) overall.

  • Reviewers felt that Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) meets the needs of their business better than AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
  • When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is the preferred option.
  • For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) over AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
No pricing available
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
No pricing available
Free Trial
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
No trial information available
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
No trial information available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.5
148
8.8
201
Ease of Use
8.5
147
8.1
201
Ease of Setup
8.2
74
8.1
117
Ease of Admin
8.1
68
8.2
113
Quality of Support
8.1
130
8.3
186
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.2
65
8.6
111
Product Direction (% positive)
8.5
143
8.7
180
Features by Category
Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)Hide 13 FeaturesShow 13 Features
8.4
102
Not enough data
Development
8.8
86
Not enough data
8.0
82
Not enough data
8.2
82
Not enough data
8.2
78
Not enough data
8.1
80
Not enough data
Database
8.1
76
Not enough data
7.8
80
Not enough data
8.6
86
Not enough data
8.3
80
Not enough data
8.5
81
Not enough data
Infrastructure
8.5
82
Not enough data
8.7
83
Not enough data
8.8
83
Not enough data
Not enough data
8.2
123
Management
Not enough data
8.2
106
Not enough data
8.1
103
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Organization
Not enough data
8.1
97
Not enough data
8.0
99
Not enough data
8.2
101
Development
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.4
98
Not enough data
8.1
87
Not enough data
8.2
94
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) share no categories
Unique Categories
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is categorized as Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is categorized as Container Management and Container Orchestration
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
34.3%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
31.4%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
34.3%
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
17.8%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
35.3%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
46.9%
Reviewers' Industry
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Computer Software
23.4%
Information Technology and Services
18.9%
Financial Services
4.6%
Automotive
4.0%
Marketing and Advertising
3.4%
Other
45.7%
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Computer Software
12.0%
Information Technology and Services
9.5%
Financial Services
7.9%
Marketing and Advertising
5.4%
Insurance
4.1%
Other
61.0%
Alternatives
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Alternatives
DigitalOcean
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Google App Engine
Google App Engine
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Salesforce Heroku
Heroku
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Azure App Service
Azure App Service
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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Alternatives
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
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Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)
Mirantis
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Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Kubernetes Engine
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Kubernetes
Kubernetes
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Discussions
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Discussions
Any late 2019 updates you wanna add? Did they got better on the stack upgrade communication? Any ne
4 Comments
Suvarna V.
SV
This is very helpful especially for beginners who are looking towards learning about the stack in depth. Keep sharing more information like this, Thanks...Read more
Should you use Elastic Beanstalk?
1 Comment
Shubham K.
SK
Definitely. This way, you only have to worry about your application and data, and nothing else.Read more
Is AWS Elastic Beanstalk PaaS?
1 Comment
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Discussions
Simpler
1 Comment
SP
ECS (containers) service page itself has main metrics link CPU utilization and memory utilization reports. If you need more stats you can go to cloudwatch...Read more
Monty the Mongoose crying
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) has no more discussions with answers