Amazon EKS vs Cloud4C (2026): Pricing, Features & Verdict
Amazon EKS is our pick, scoring 7.5/10 against 6.6/10 for Cloud4C on our Hosting & Infrastructure criteria. Its biggest advantage: higher Scalability score (10/10 vs 7/10). Neither Amazon EKS nor Cloud4C lists a free plan.
Last updated: November 2026
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Amazon EKS
7.5/10
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service is AWS's managed Kubernetes service. It runs the cluster control plane for teams that deploy containers on EC2, Fargate, or their own hardware.
Cloud4C
6.6/10
Cloud4C is a Capgemini-owned managed cloud provider. It runs private, sovereign, hybrid and public cloud estates, including SAP hosting and RISE with SAP, for large enterprises in regulated industries.
Feature-by-Feature Comparison
| Feature | A Amazon EKS | |
|---|---|---|
| Scores | ||
| Overall Rating | 7.5/10 | 6.6/10 |
| Integration | 9/10 | 7/10 |
| Support | 6/10 | 7/10 |
| Cost | 4/10 | 3/10 |
| Customization | 9/10 | 8/10 |
| Security | 9/10 | 8/10 |
| Reliability | 9/10 | 8/10 |
| Ease of Use | 4/10 | 5/10 |
| Analytics | 7/10 | 6/10 |
| Scalability | 10/10 | 7/10 |
| Pricing | ||
| Free plan | No | No |
| Cheapest paid plan | $73/mo Standard support cluster | Contact for pricing |
| Estimated cost for 10 users | $73/mo Standard support cluster | Contact for pricing |
| Features | ||
| Managed Kubernetes | ||
| Multiple Regions | ||
| Uptime SLA | ||
| API and CLI | Not listed | |
| Automatic Backups | Not listed | |
| Cloud Compute | Not listed | |
| Managed Databases | Not listed | |
Amazon EKS vs Cloud4C cost by team size
| Team size | Amazon EKS | Cloud4C |
|---|---|---|
| 1 user | $73/moStandard support cluster | Contact for pricing |
| 5 users | $73/moStandard support cluster | Contact for pricing |
| 10 users | $73/moStandard support cluster | Contact for pricing |
| 25 users | $73/moStandard support cluster | Contact for pricing |
| 50 users | $73/moStandard support cluster | Contact for pricing |
The plan that fits each team size, billed monthly, before add-ons and usage charges. Each cost opens that tool's pricing calculator for the team size.
Who Amazon EKS and Cloud4C suit
Amazon EKS fits developers and startups better than Cloud4C.
| Audience | Amazon EKS | Cloud4C |
|---|---|---|
| Developers | 6/10Developers get standard upstream Kubernetes, but reviewers say prior Kubernetes experience is needed to use it well. | 3/10It is a managed service operated by Cloud4C staff rather than a developer platform with self-service APIs. |
| Startups | 5/10There is no upfront commitment, but the roughly $73 monthly fee per cluster and the operational overhead are heavy for small teams. | 2/10There is no self-service signup, free tier or public pricing. |
| Enterprise | 9/10Large organisations get clusters of up to 100K nodes, a 99.99% provisioned tier, FedRAMP, PCI, and HIPAA coverage, and hybrid deployment. | 9/10Cloud4C reports 2,500+ enterprise customers, including 50 Global Fortune 1000 companies, and is built around single-SLA managed operations. |
| Government | 7/10EKS is available in AWS GovCloud (US), holds FedRAMP Moderate, and supports air-gapped clusters through EKS Anywhere. | 7/10Sovereign cloud options and in-country data residency across many regions suit public-sector data rules. |
| IT Teams | 7/10Platform and IT teams get fine-grained control over nodes and networking, but they must own upgrades and add-ons. | 7/10It takes over infrastructure, DR, security and SAP Basis work, with SHOP providing monitoring and auto-remediation. |
| Financial Services | Not rated | 8/10It holds PCI DSS and several ISO certifications, offers sovereign cloud and data residency in 25 countries, and sells compliance-as-a-service. |
| Manufacturing | Not rated | 7/10Its SAP hosting and RISE with SAP focus suits manufacturers that run SAP ERP. |
| Mid-Market | Not rated | 6/10Fully managed operations can stand in for an in-house infrastructure team, but quote-only enterprise contracts may be heavy for smaller firms. |
| SaaS Companies | 8/10SaaS teams already on AWS can scale container workloads alongside RDS, SQS, and IAM without moving to another platform. | Not rated |
| Small Business | 3/10Small businesses face complexity and many separately billed components that suit them poorly compared with simpler PaaS hosting. | Not rated |
Which One Should You Choose?
AWhy choose Amazon EKS
- Higher Scalability score (10/10 vs 7/10)
- Higher Integration score (9/10 vs 7/10)
- Better fit for developers (6/10 vs 3/10)
- Better fit for startups (5/10 vs 2/10)
Why choose Cloud4C
- Higher Support score (7/10 vs 6/10)
- Higher Ease of Use score (5/10 vs 4/10)
Pros & Cons
AAmazon EKS
Pros
- Scales to clusters of up to 100,000 worker nodes, and reviewers consistently name scalability as its main strength.
- Integrates deeply with AWS: IAM and Pod Identity for pod credentials, ECR, load balancers, VPC Lattice, GuardDuty, and CloudWatch.
- Offers several compute options in one service: EC2 node groups, Fargate serverless pods, Auto Mode, Outposts, Hybrid Nodes, and air-gapped EKS Anywhere.
- Backs the control plane with a financially backed SLA of 99.95%, or 99.99% with Provisioned Control Plane, with credits of up to 100%.
- Holds broad compliance coverage, including SOC, PCI, ISO, FedRAMP Moderate, HITRUST, and HIPAA eligibility.
- Allows version rollback within 7 days of an upgrade at no extra cost.
Cons
- Practitioners call it the least managed of the big three Kubernetes services, because control plane, node, and add-on upgrades are separate manual steps.
- Charges about $73 per month per cluster before any workloads run, and $438 per month once a version falls into extended support. AKS charges no control plane fee on its free tier.
- The default VPC CNI assigns real VPC IPs to pods and can exhaust subnet address space unless IP space is planned in advance.
- Real bills can climb well above estimates because of NAT gateway, cross-AZ transfer, and CloudWatch ingestion costs.
- Reviewers say prior Kubernetes knowledge is needed and the learning curve is steep. Some also note there is no built-in in-console cluster shell like GKE's.
Cloud4C
Pros
- One provider is accountable for uptime from infrastructure up to application login. Most published SLAs are 99.9%, above SAP's own 99.5% standard production SLA.
- Data residency in 25 countries through 59 cloud PODs suits regulated buyers with sovereignty requirements.
- A broad managed stack under one contract covers private and public cloud, SAP Basis and database administration, DR, air-gapped backups and a managed SOC.
- Holds ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, 27701, 22301 and 20000-1 plus PCI DSS certifications.
- Its SHOP platform adds AIOps anomaly prediction, auto-remediation and no-code API connectors across AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle and its private cloud.
- Gartner Peer Insights reviewers rate it about 4.4 out of 5, praising migration and managed-services delivery.
Cons
- No public pricing or rate card. Every engagement needs a sales-led quote, and RFP.wiki rates its pricing as its weakest area.
- Little independent review evidence: G2, Clutch and PeerSpot show no reviews, and Gartner has only about 21 to 32.
- Reviewers mention process delays and documentation gaps during transitions.
- SLA figures differ across its own pages (99.9%, 99.95% and 99.994%), and credits and exclusions are set only in each contract.
- There is no self-service console, free tier or public API for provisioning, so it does not suit developers or small businesses.
- After Capgemini's acquisition in November 2025, buyers should confirm which entity they contract with and how support will be handled.
Not sold on either?
Frequently Asked Questions
Amazon EKS scores higher on our Hosting & Infrastructure criteria: 7.5/10 against 6.6/10 for Cloud4C. The largest gap is in Scalability: 10/10 for Amazon EKS and 7/10 for Cloud4C.
No, neither Amazon EKS nor Cloud4C lists a free plan.
Amazon EKS is the better fit for developers: we rate it 6/10 for them, against 3/10 for Cloud4C.
