For example, AKS previewed K8s 1.18.1 and 1.18.2 while Amazon EKS and GKE offered up to Kubernetes 1.16.8.
Some versions of Kubernetes might also be made available in beta or preview versions with some services, but not others. The actual current version of any of the three platforms will undoubtedly be dated within a few weeks, or even days, of writing this article. Following this table, we’ll provide a deeper analysis of each feature. In this section, we compare key features of the three providers. Similar to what Microsoft did with its legacy orchestration service, for a time, AWS tried to encourage users to use its cluster orchestrator platform. Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS)Īmazon EKS was also made generally available in June 2018. Microsoft already has some experience with cluster orchestrators through its older Azure Container Service, which supported not only Kubernetes, but also Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm. Made generally available in June 2018, AKS is Microsoft’s solution for hosting Kubernetes. Google is the original creator of Kubernetes, so naturally, GKE was the first managed Kubernetes service on the market-and is one of the most advanced solutions currently available. In this article, we will analyze three of the most popular services currently available: Google Kubernetes Engine, Azure Kubernetes Service, and Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes.