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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service vs Rancher

Compare Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service and Rancher side-by-side. See feature differences and pricing in the Container Orchestration Tools category.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

by Amazon

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Pricing: Usage-based: $0.10 per cluster per hour with standard version support, $0.60 with extended support. Auto Mode, Capabilities, Hybrid Nodes and Provisioned Control Plane cost extra.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service is AWS's managed Kubernetes service for container orchestration on AWS, on premises and at the edge, billed per cluster hour.

14 /17 features Full profile

Rancher

by SUSE

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Pricing: Open source Rancher is free with community support; SUSE Rancher Prime and SUSE Rancher Suite are priced on request through SUSE's regional sales team.

Rancher is SUSE's open source Kubernetes management platform for running many clusters across clouds, data centres and edge sites, with quoted paid editions.

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Feature Comparison

Container Orchestration Tools features side-by-side

Feature	Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service 14/17 features	Rancher 13/17 features
Declarative scheduling with resource requests Workloads declare CPU and memory needs and the scheduler places them on nodes with capacity.	Yes	No
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	Yes
Workload autoscaling on metrics Replica counts scale up and down on CPU, memory or custom application metrics.	Yes	Yes
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	Yes
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	Yes
Namespace isolation with RBAC and quotas Teams get separate namespaces with role-based permissions and resource quotas.	No	Yes
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	No
Multi-cluster management console One console provisions, upgrades and monitors many clusters across clouds and data centres.	No	Yes
Automated cluster version upgrades Control plane and node versions can be upgraded in place through the platform.	Yes	Yes
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.	Yes	Yes
CNCF-certified Kubernetes conformance The distribution passes the CNCF conformance tests for the Kubernetes API.	Yes	No
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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service 14/17 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: Yes
Helm chart application catalog: No
GitOps reconciliation from a repository: Yes
CNCF-certified Kubernetes conformance: Yes

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Rancher 13/17 features

Declarative scheduling with resource requests: No
Self-healing restart and rescheduling: No
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: Yes
Network policies between workloads: Yes
Managed control plane offering: No
Multi-cluster management console: Yes
Automated cluster version upgrades: Yes
Helm chart application catalog: Yes
GitOps reconciliation from a repository: Yes
CNCF-certified Kubernetes conformance: No

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Pricing

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Usage-based: $0.10 per cluster per hour with standard version support, $0.60 with extended support. Auto Mode, Capabilities, Hybrid Nodes and Provisioned Control Plane cost extra.

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Rancher

Open source Rancher is free with community support; SUSE Rancher Prime and SUSE Rancher Suite are priced on request through SUSE's regional sales team.

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