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Amazon Elastic Container Service vs Civo Kubernetes

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Amazon Elastic Container Service

by Amazon

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Pricing: Usage-based, no ECS fee: Fargate from $0.04048 per vCPU-hour plus memory, billed per second; EC2 at EC2 rates; ECS Anywhere $0.01025 per instance-hour

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is AWS's container orchestration service for teams running containers on Fargate, EC2 or their own servers.

11 /17 features Full profile

Civo Kubernetes

by Civo

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Pricing: Billed hourly per node: Standard nodes from $0.007440 an hour ($5.43 for a full month), Performance from $86.91 a month; control plane at no charge; $250 sign-up credit

Civo Kubernetes is a managed Kubernetes service on K3s from UK cloud provider Civo, with a vendor-run control plane, for developers, startups and small teams.

8 /17 features Full profile

Feature Comparison

Container Orchestration Tools features side-by-side

Feature	Amazon Elastic Container Service 11/17 features	Civo Kubernetes 8/17 features
Declarative scheduling with resource requests Workloads declare CPU and memory needs and the scheduler places them on nodes with capacity.	Yes	Yes
Self-healing restart and rescheduling Failed containers are restarted and workloads on dead nodes are moved automatically.	Yes	No
Rolling updates with rollback New versions roll out gradually and can be rolled back to the previous revision on failure.	Yes	No
Workload autoscaling on metrics Replica counts scale up and down on CPU, memory or custom application metrics.	Yes	No
Cluster node autoscaling Nodes are added or removed from the cluster as pending workload demand changes.	Yes	Yes
Built-in service discovery and load balancing Services get a stable name and address, with traffic spread across healthy replicas.	Yes	No
Ingress and external load balancer integration HTTP routing rules and cloud load balancers expose services outside the cluster.	Yes	Yes
Dynamic persistent volume provisioning Storage volumes are created on demand from a storage class and attached to workloads.	Yes	Yes
Config and secret injection into workloads Configuration values and secrets are mounted or set as environment variables at start-up.	Yes	No
Namespace isolation with RBAC and quotas Teams get separate namespaces with role-based permissions and resource quotas.	No	No
Network policies between workloads Rules control which workloads may talk to each other on the cluster network.	Yes	Yes
Managed control plane offering The vendor runs and patches the control plane so teams only manage worker nodes.	Yes	Yes
Multi-cluster management console One console provisions, upgrades and monitors many clusters across clouds and data centres.	No	No
Automated cluster version upgrades Control plane and node versions can be upgraded in place through the platform.	No	No
Helm chart application catalog Applications can be installed from a catalog of Helm charts or packaged templates.	No	Yes
GitOps reconciliation from a repository Cluster state is continuously reconciled with manifests held in a Git repository.	No	No
CNCF-certified Kubernetes conformance The distribution passes the CNCF conformance tests for the Kubernetes API.	No	Yes
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Amazon Elastic Container Service 11/17 features

Declarative scheduling with resource requests: Yes
Self-healing restart and rescheduling: Yes
Rolling updates with rollback: Yes
Workload autoscaling on metrics: Yes
Cluster node autoscaling: Yes
Built-in service discovery and load balancing: Yes
Ingress and external load balancer integration: Yes
Dynamic persistent volume provisioning: Yes
Config and secret injection into workloads: Yes
Namespace isolation with RBAC and quotas: No
Network policies between workloads: Yes
Managed control plane offering: Yes
Multi-cluster management console: No
Automated cluster version upgrades: No
Helm chart application catalog: No
GitOps reconciliation from a repository: No
CNCF-certified Kubernetes conformance: No

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Civo Kubernetes 8/17 features

Declarative scheduling with resource requests: Yes
Self-healing restart and rescheduling: No
Rolling updates with rollback: No
Workload autoscaling on metrics: No
Cluster node autoscaling: Yes
Built-in service discovery and load balancing: No
Ingress and external load balancer integration: Yes
Dynamic persistent volume provisioning: Yes
Config and secret injection into workloads: No
Namespace isolation with RBAC and quotas: No
Network policies between workloads: Yes
Managed control plane offering: Yes
Multi-cluster management console: No
Automated cluster version upgrades: No
Helm chart application catalog: Yes
GitOps reconciliation from a repository: No
CNCF-certified Kubernetes conformance: Yes

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Pricing

Amazon Elastic Container Service

Usage-based, no ECS fee: Fargate from $0.04048 per vCPU-hour plus memory, billed per second; EC2 at EC2 rates; ECS Anywhere $0.01025 per instance-hour

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Civo Kubernetes

Billed hourly per node: Standard nodes from $0.007440 an hour ($5.43 for a full month), Performance from $86.91 a month; control plane at no charge; $250 sign-up credit

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