EKS vs AKS

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

• setup IAM OICD
• setup external dns
• setup ALB contrller

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

• ebs
• efs

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)