G2 Vendor Directory

Canonical Kubernetes vs. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

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

MetricCanonical Kubernetes

by Canonical Ltd.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Overall rating4.44.5
Review count28111
Ease of use8.78.7
Ease of setup8.48.7
Quality of support8.49.0
Meets requirements9.39.2
NPS71.42857174.311927
Small Business39.3%27.3%
Mid-Market28.6%43.6%
Enterprise32.1%29.1%
Total page views38261
Total LLM citations156551

Canonical Kubernetes

Ubuntu is the reference platform for Kubernetes on all major public clouds, including official support in Google’s GKE, Microsoft’s AKS and Amazon’s EKS CAAS offerings. We deliver pure upstream Kubernetes tested across the widest range of clouds — from public clouds to private data centres, from bare metal to virtualised infrastructure.

Pros

  • Container Management
  • Features
  • Installation Ease
  • Kubernetes Management
  • Cluster Management
  • Auto-scaling

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