G2 Vendor Directory

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) vs. VMware vSphere

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAmazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

VMware vSphere

by Broadcom

Overall rating4.54.5
Review count111785
Ease of use8.79.1
Ease of setup8.78.8
Quality of support9.08.7
Meets requirements9.29.3
NPS74.31192769.61039
Small Business27.3%15.1%
Mid-Market43.6%41.1%
Enterprise29.1%43.8%
Total page views2611,242
Total LLM citations5514,101

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS. Amazon EKS runs the Kubernetes management infrastructure for you across multiple AWS availability zones to eliminate a single point of failure. Amazon EKS is certified Kubernetes conformant so you can use existing tooling and plugins from partners and the Kubernetes community. Applications running on any standard Kubernetes environment are fully compatible and can be easily migrated to Amazon EKS.

Pros

  • Scalability
  • Ease of Use
  • Integrations
  • Cost-Effective
  • Documentation
  • Setup Ease

VMware vSphere

VMware vSphere with VCF 9.1 is the enterprise workload engine that modernizes compute infrastructure with a future-ready, scalable infrastructure and simplified management that enables organizations to extract maximum value from their current server investments and hardware footprint, rather than requiring a total refresh. vSphere provides a powerful foundation for modern, AI and traditional workloads, while enabling intrinsic security out-of-the-box.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Virtualization Management
  • Features
  • Management
  • Reliability
  • Stability