AWS App Runner vs. Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)

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.

Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE) is the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, designed to provide organizations with total control over their strategic infrastructure. Powering some of the world’s largest production clusters, MKE 4 introduces a 100% open-source, "composable" architecture based on k0s. This shift allows platform engineers to precisely tailor their stack by swapping in validated CNCF ecosystem components for networking, ingress, and storage, avoiding the "black box" limitations of proprietary distributions.