G2 Vendor Directory

AWS App Runner vs. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

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

MetricAWS App Runner

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

by Google

Overall rating4.24.5
Review count15260
Ease of use8.68.7
Ease of setup6.78.6
Quality of support8.78.4
Meets requirements8.29.1
NPS53.33333366.203704
Small Business73.3%23.2%
Mid-Market20.0%28.6%
Enterprise6.7%48.3%
Total page views29288
Total LLM citations191966

AWS App Runner

AWS App Runner is a fully managed service that simplifies the process of building, deploying, and running containerized web applications and APIs. Designed for developers without prior infrastructure or container experience, App Runner handles the complexities of infrastructure management, allowing users to focus on their application code. By connecting directly to your source code or container image repository, App Runner provides an automatic integration and delivery pipeline with fully managed operations, high performance, scalability, and security.

Pros

    Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

    A scalable and automated Kubernetes service. GKE is a simple way to automatically deploy, scale, and manage Kubernetes.

    Pros

    • Ease of Use
    • Features
    • Integrations
    • Setup Ease
    • Deployment Ease
    • Scalability