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

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

MetricAmazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

VMware vSphere Kubernetes Services (VKS)

by Broadcom

Overall rating4.54.1
Review count11163
Ease of use8.78.1
Ease of setup8.77.7
Quality of support9.08.3
Meets requirements9.28.5
NPS74.31192738.709677
Small Business27.3%41.0%
Mid-Market43.6%31.1%
Enterprise29.1%27.9%
Total page views261325
Total LLM citations55144

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 Kubernetes Services (VKS)

VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) is the CNCF-certified Kubernetes runtime built directly into VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), to run all apps. VKS is among the first platforms certified under the new CNCF Kubernetes AI Conformance Program. VKS enables platform engineers to easily deploy, manage and scale Kubernetes clusters while leveraging a comprehensive set of cloud services included in VCF, as well as all CNCF-conformant third party services.

Pros