State of Managed Kubernetes 2020
EKS vs. AKS vs. GKE from a Developer’s Perspective
(Update June 2021: Check out the updated 2021 edition below)
In February of 2019, just a few months after AWS announced the GA release of EKS to join Azure’s AKS and GCP’s GKE, I wrote up a comparison of these services as part of the first edition of the open-source Kubernetes book. Since then, Kubernetes adoption exploded, and the managed Kubernetes offering from all the major cloud providers became standardized. According to Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)’s most recent survey released in March 2020, Kubernetes usage in production jumped from 58% to 78% with managed Kubernetes services from AWS and GCP leading the pack.
From my personal experience working with Kubernetes, the most notable difference from 2019 to now has been the feature parity across the clouds. The huge lead that GKE once enjoyed has been largely reduced, and in some cases…
