Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Alternatives (September 2025)

Learn about Azure Red Hat OpenShift, an OpenShift service managed by Microsoft and Red Hat with Kubernetes PaaS at its core. Discover a turnkey container platform.

Run application containers in the cloud with a single command. Get started in seconds and lower your infrastructure costs with per-second billing.

Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) provides enterprise-level high-performance and flexible management of Kubernetes containerized applications throughout the application lifecycle.

Store images for all types of container deployments and OCI artifacts, using Azure Container Registry.

GKE is the industry's first fully managed Kubernetes service with full Kubernetes API, 4-way autoscaling, release channels, and multi-cluster support.

Bring your own containers and deploy to App Service as a web app running on Linux in seconds using Web App for Containers feature of Azure App Service.

Managed Enterprise Container Management for Organizations. We have private and managed container orchestration for Kubernetes, Docker, and more!

Migrate and build apps. Azure App Service is a fully managed platform for creating web applications. The app service offers a range of app development plans and services.

Invent with purpose, realize cost savings, and make your organization more efficient with Microsoft Azure’s open and flexible cloud computing platform.

Try Azure File Storage for managed file shares that use standard SMB 3.0 protocol. Share data with on-premises and cloud servers, integrate with apps, and more.

Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers.

Production-Grade Container Orchestration

Simplify your Kubernetes deployment with Kublr. Our platform offers fast and efficient setup and orchestration for small and large scale enterprises.

Rancher, the open-source multi-cluster orchestration platform, lets operations teams deploy, manage and secure enterprise Kubernetes. Request a demo!

Build apps faster and scale automatically on Azure SQL Database, the intelligent, fully managed relational cloud database.

Learn how Azure Stack brings the agility of cloud computing to your on-premises environment.

Build, manage, and deliver solutions through the Azure Marketplace or Service Catalog with Azure Managed Applications.

An open source Kubernetes Platform to manage enterprise-grade Kubernetes across hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and edge. Get started for free!

MicroK8s is the simplest production-grade conformant K8s. Lightweight and focused. Single command install on Linux, Windows and macOS. Made for devOps, great for edge, appliances and IoT. Full high availability Kubernetes with autonomous clusters and distributed storage.

D2iQ makes it easier to build and run Kubernetes at scale, reducing time to market from months to days.

Learn about Azure Cloud Services, which helps you deploy and scale powerful cloud applications and APIs. Supports Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, .NET, and more.

At Build, we announced the latest update of Azure IoT Remote Monitoring, a solution accelerator that is fully operational right out of the box.

Portainer is your container management software to deploy, troubleshoot, and secure applications across cloud, datacenter, and Industrial IoT use cases.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) provides a fully managed container service solution that’s easy to use, scalable, secure, and reliable.

Container Engine by Oracle provides a developer friendly, container-native, and enterprise-ready managed Kubernetes service for running highly available clusters.

Easily manage multiple Kubernetes clusters with the automation power of the Kubermatic platform. Scale your business with reliability.

AWS App Runner helps you deploy and scale from your source code or container image to a secure web application on AWS.

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service enables the orchestration of intelligent scheduling, self-healing and horizontal scaling.

Connect cloud intelligence to your edge devices with Azure IoT Edge, a comprehensive service that deploys artificial intelligence and custom logic to IoT devices.

Canonical Kubernetes enterprise solutions build up from Ubuntu OS to hybrid multi-cloud container orchestration clouds, edge and IoT, managed Kubernetes and enterprise support packages.

Protect against ransomware with a centralized cloud backup service and solution.

Taikun CloudWorks is an Advanced Platform for Delivering Kubernetes & Applications Seamlessly Across Multi Cloud Environments

Azure API Management offers a scalable, multi-cloud API management platform for securing, publishing, and analyzing APIs.

Devtron enables swift app containerization, seamless Kubernetes deployment, and peak performance optimization – simplify your app management today!

A single console, with built-in security policies, for controlling Kubernetes clusters and applications.

Use Azure Arc solutions for hybrid and multi-cloud management to run Azure services anywhere. Accelerate innovation with Azure Arc–enabled data services.

Protect your data with Azure Sphere, a turnkey IoT device security and IoT platform solution for intelligent edge devices and microcontrollers.

Learn about Azure Automation, a cloud automation service for process automating those long-running, error-prone, frequently repeated tasks with Windows PowerShell.

Learn how customers run Kubernetes on Amazon EKS with detailed case studies and videos.

Make autoscaling your VMs easier with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Run thousands of virtual machines in minutes based on customizable metrics.

IBM Container Registry enables you to store and distribute Docker images in a managed, private registry.

Run your production workloads on hybrid, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) with Azure-Arc enabled Azure Stack HCI. Modernize your edge computing environments.

Learn about Azure Content Delivery Network, a secure and reliable global content delivery and acceleration solution.

Kong Mesh is an enterprise-ready service mesh that provides security, reliability and observability for Kubernetes environments. Accelerate deployments today!

Manage billions of IoT devices with Azure IoT Hub, a cloud platform that lets you easily connect, monitor, provision, and configure IoT devices.

Azure API Apps give you the tools to develop, host, secure, and share REST APIs in your organization or with the world.

Download and install the Azure SDKs and Azure PowerShell and command-line tools for management and deployment.

Anthos is the core enterprise technology that empowers Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Google Distributed Cloud (GDC).

Get 10 free parallel jobs for cloud-based CI/CD pipelines for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Automate builds and easily deploy to any cloud with Azure Pipelines.

Learn about Azure Batch, a Microsoft cloud computing service for running large-scale parallel and batch compute jobs.

CAST AI cuts your cloud bill in half, automates DevOps tasks, and prevents downtime in one Autonomous Kubernetes platform.

Read how Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes helps you secure your systems

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL and relational database for modern app development. Start building applications with a free trial.

Learn how Azure App Service helps you develop and host web applications.

Discover Azure Data Factory, the easiest cloud-based hybrid data integration service and solution at an enterprise scale. Build data factories without the need to code.

Gain end-to-end observability into your applications, infrastructure, and network both on cloud and hybrid environments with Azure Monitor.

A browser-based shell experience in the cloud that’s maintained by Microsoft to manage Azure resources with popular command-line tools and programming languages

Create event-driven, scalable serverless applications in .NET, Node.js, Python, Java, or PowerShell with the Azure Functions app— a serverless computing service.

Simplify how you manage your app resources with Azure Resource Manager. Deploy resources together, categorize them for easy billing, and enable access control.

Learn about Azure Event Hubs, a managed service that can ingest and process massive data streams from websites, apps, or devices.

Azure Lab Services provides secure, sharable virtual labs in the cloud with on-demand or scheduled access to preconfigured virtual machines.

Built on the proven analytical engine in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, Azure Analysis Services delivers enterprise-grade data modeling in the cloud.

Build, manage, and monitor all your apps in Microsoft Azure Portal. A single, unified hub built for you, your team, and your projects.

Full dev-to-prod cloud native security platform on Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, Fargate, Lambda, AWS & other container platforms

With Azure SignalR Service, adding real-time communications to your web application is as simple as provisioning a service.

Build and deploy scalable containerized apps written in any language (like Go, Python, Java, Node.js, .NET, and Ruby) on a fully managed platform.

Manage, deploy, and patch your domain controllers in the cloud with Microsoft Entra Domain Services (formerly Azure Active Directory Domain Services).

Ambassador Labs - We build best-in-class Kubernetes-native productivity tools to safely design, develop, test, deploy, & monitor apps with speed & efficiency

This article provides an overview of Azure Front Door.

A Kubernetes-native open-source framework for building continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to build, test, and deploy software.

Integrate F5 technology with containerized environments to enable dynamic, advanced application services.

A service mesh for observability, security in depth, and management that speeds deployment cycles.

Oracle Container Registry is a highly available container registry service for storing and sharing container images and artifacts across multiple deployments.

Get HDInsight, an open-source analytics service that runs Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and more. Integrate HDInsight with big data processing by Azure for even more insights.

Manage virtual machines and Kubernetes – on-premises, at the edge, or air-gapped – with our flexible platform that reduces ops cost and accelerates delivery of revenue-generating apps.

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy to store, share, and deploy container images.

Use a highly available, hardened service running an actual Microsoft Active Directory (AD), managed by Google Cloud.

Build, debug, deploy, and manage cloud applications—using any platform or language—with Azure development tools, including Visual Studio.

Learn about Azure Virtual Network. Create your own private network in the cloud. View features and build a hybrid IT infrastructure you can control.

Azure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise SQL data warehousing and big data analytics services.

Try Azure Database for PostgreSQL to build reliable and intelligent applications for your organization. Explore open-source PostgreSQL database.

An enterprise application platform powered by Kubernetes that provides the basic functionality of Red Hat OpenShift to run containers in hybrid cloud environments.

Learn about how Azure confidential computing protects data in use and learn ways to build confidential workloads in the cloud.

Run complex, performance-intensive and latency-sensitive applications in the cloud—without any code change.

VMware Tanzu is a cloud native application platform that enables vital DevSecOps outcomes in a multi-cloud world.

Protect, monitor, and report on your Azure Virtual Network resources using Azure Firewall, a cloud-native network security and analytics solution.

Learn about Azure Web Application Firewall, a firewall service that helps improve web app security.

The industry's only active security platform with full-stack observability for containers and Kubernetes.

Build machine learning models in a simplified way with machine learning platforms from Azure. Machine learning as a service increases accessibility and efficiency.

Amazon MSK is a fully managed, secure, and highly available Apache Kafka service that makes it easy to ingest and process streaming data in real time at a low cost.

Build Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs) and save up to 80 percent with Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances and Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server.

See how Densify optimizes your cloud and container resources and ensures app and workload performance is optimal.

Keep connected with Azure Service Bus, a cloud messaging system for connecting apps and devices across public and private clouds.

Market-leading data protection service built for Kubernetes, simplifying compliance and data access, and empowering app owners to backup and restore apps.

Safeguard cryptographic keys and other secrets used by cloud apps and services with Microsoft Azure Key Vault. Try it now.

Identify, manage, and remediate vulnerabilities and misconfigurations on-prem, in your cloud or containerized infrastructure in a unified view

Aiven for Apache Kafka – Managed event streaming Kafka service ✓ Microservices ✓ Event-driven architecture ✓ Streaming pipelines ✓

Simplify your infrastructure with cloud computing solutions from Akamai (formerly Linode). Develop, deploy, and scale faster and easier.

Cloud security at Tenable starts with a unified CNAPP powerful enough to manage posture, secure workloads, govern identity & access management, and much more.