Control Panel Fee#
- AKS: 0
 - EKS: fixed charge 0.1 USD / Hour
 
Integration#
I think AKS is better, most of the provisioning plugins can be enabled by one click
In aws, you need to
- install plugins
 - setup iam service account for the plugins to access AWS service
 
application routing#
For AKS,
- it is just an checkbox option
 
For EKS, you need to
auto scaler#
Same as application routing -> auto scaler. enable and use
in AWS, we need to setup cluster autoscaler
volume provisioning#
AKS supports volume provisioning with Azure File (EFS) & Azure Disk (EBS), it has many pre-defined volume class…we do not need to install any plugin
For EKS, we need CSI driver
Virtual node#
It is AKS things, like EKS’s fargate…but I cannot find the price..
2021-12-10 updates:#
I have asked on Microsoft Q&A: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/659456/price-of-ake-virtual-node-and-aks-without-node-poo.html
- need min 1 system node group
 - can start / stop the cluster
 - the VM will stop charging when the cluster is stop
 - charge of other provisioned services like LB and Azure File are unknown…
 - virtual node will charge as container service (like fargate)
 

