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  5. Amazon EC2 Container Service vs Sauce Labs

Amazon EC2 Container Service vs Sauce Labs

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Overview

Sauce Labs
Sauce Labs
Stacks314
Followers435
Votes439
Amazon EC2 Container Service
Amazon EC2 Container Service
Stacks14.6K
Followers10.2K
Votes325

Amazon EC2 Container Service vs Sauce Labs: What are the differences?

Amazon EC2 Container Service: Container management service that supports Docker containers. Amazon EC2 Container Service lets you launch and stop container-enabled applications with simple API calls, allows you to query the state of your cluster from a centralized service, and gives you access to many familiar Amazon EC2 features like security groups, EBS volumes and IAM roles; Sauce Labs: Test mobile or web apps instantly across 700+ browser/OS/device platform combinations - without infrastructure setup. Cloud-based automated testing platform enables developers and QEs to perform functional, JavaScript unit, and manual tests with Selenium or Appium on web and mobile apps. Videos and screenshots for easy debugging. Secure and CI-ready.

Amazon EC2 Container Service and Sauce Labs are primarily classified as "Containers as a Service" and "Browser Testing" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Amazon EC2 Container Service are:

  • Docker Compatibility
  • Managed Clusters
  • Programmatic Control

On the other hand, Sauce Labs provides the following key features:

  • 700+ browser/OS/device combinations for cross-browser and platform testing to improve web and mobile app quality and eliminate the overhead of internal infrastructure
  • Highly reliable, on-demand cloud for enterprise-grade scalability and industry standard security
  • Optimized for popular testing frameworks, CI systems, and surrounding tools and services

"Backed by amazon" is the primary reason why developers consider Amazon EC2 Container Service over the competitors, whereas "Selenium-compatible" was stated as the key factor in picking Sauce Labs.

Instacart, PedidosYa, and Clever are some of the popular companies that use Amazon EC2 Container Service, whereas Sauce Labs is used by Lyft, Salesforce, and Sentry. Amazon EC2 Container Service has a broader approval, being mentioned in 784 company stacks & 374 developers stacks; compared to Sauce Labs, which is listed in 66 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.

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Advice on Sauce Labs, Amazon EC2 Container Service

Rinchin
Rinchin

Jul 20, 2020

Needs adviceonSeleniumSeleniumSauce LabsSauce Labs

I am looking to purchase one of these tools for Mobile testing for my team. It should support Native, hybrid, and responsive app testing. It should also feature debugging, parallel execution, automation testing/easy integration with automation testing tools like Selenium, and the capability to provide availability of devices specifically for us to use at any time with good speed of performing all these activities.

I have already used Perfecto mobile, and Sauce Labs in my other projects before. I want to know how different or better is AWS Device farm in usage and how advantageous it would be for us to use it over other mentioned tools

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Andres
Andres

Lead Senior Software Engineer at InTouch Technology

Jun 3, 2020

Decided

If you want to integrate your cluster and control end to end your pipeline with AWS tools like ECR and Code Pipeline your best option is ECS using a EC2 instance. There are pros and cons but it's easier to integrate using cloud formation templates and visual UI for approvals, etc. ECS is free, you need to pay only for the EC2 instance but unfortunately, it is not standard then you cannot use standard tools to see and manage your Kubernetes.
EKS in the other hand uses standard Kubernates definitions but you need to pay for the service and also for the EC2 instance(s) you have in your cluster.

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Detailed Comparison

Sauce Labs
Sauce Labs
Amazon EC2 Container Service
Amazon EC2 Container Service

Cloud-based automated testing platform enables developers and QEs to perform functional, JavaScript unit, and manual tests with Selenium or Appium on web and mobile apps. Videos and screenshots for easy debugging. Secure and CI-ready.

Amazon EC2 Container Service lets you launch and stop container-enabled applications with simple API calls, allows you to query the state of your cluster from a centralized service, and gives you access to many familiar Amazon EC2 features like security groups, EBS volumes and IAM roles.

700+ browser/OS/device combinations for cross-browser and platform testing to improve web and mobile app quality and eliminate the overhead of internal infrastructure; Highly reliable, on-demand cloud for enterprise-grade scalability and industry standard security; Optimized for popular testing frameworks, CI systems, and surrounding tools and services; Works with Selenium and Appium based on industry standard Selenium WebDriver protocol. Compatible with existing tests in any popular language and testing framework; Identify test failures quickly with debugging tools like screenshots, video recordings, and detailed logs
Docker Compatibility;Managed Clusters;Programmatic Control;Task Definitions;Scheduler;Docker Repository
Statistics
Stacks
314
Stacks
14.6K
Followers
435
Followers
10.2K
Votes
439
Votes
325
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 60
    Selenium-compatible
  • 46
    Webdriver compatible
  • 35
    Video recordings of every test
  • 31
    Qa
  • 29
    Mobile support
Cons
  • 2
    Relatively slow
  • 2
    Expensive
Pros
  • 100
    Backed by amazon
  • 72
    Familiar to ec2
  • 53
    Cluster based
  • 42
    Simple API
  • 26
    Iam roles
Integrations
CircleCI
CircleCI
Travis CI
Travis CI
Appium
Appium
Jenkins
Jenkins
Selenium
Selenium
Visual Studio
Visual Studio
AWS Cloud9
AWS Cloud9
TeamCity
TeamCity
Applitools
Applitools
Bamboo
Bamboo
Docker
Docker
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2

What are some alternatives to Sauce Labs, Amazon EC2 Container Service?

BrowserStack

BrowserStack

BrowserStack is the leading test platform built for developers & QAs to expand test coverage, scale & optimize testing with cross-browser, real device cloud, accessibility, visual testing, test management, and test observability.

Selenium

Selenium

Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.

LambdaTest

LambdaTest

LambdaTest platform provides secure, scalable and insightful test orchestration for website, and mobile app testing. Customers at different points in their DevOps lifecycle can leverage Automation and/or Manual testing on LambdaTest.

Karma

Karma

Karma is not a testing framework, nor an assertion library. Karma just launches a HTTP server, and generates the test runner HTML file you probably already know from your favourite testing framework. So for testing purposes you can use pretty much anything you like.

Playwright

Playwright

It is a Node library to automate the Chromium, WebKit and Firefox browsers with a single API. It enables cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.

Google Kubernetes Engine

Google Kubernetes Engine

Container Engine takes care of provisioning and maintaining the underlying virtual machine cluster, scaling your application, and operational logistics like logging, monitoring, and health management.

Rainforest QA

Rainforest QA

Rainforest gives you the reliability of a QA team and the speed of automation, without the hassle of managing a team or the pain of writing automated tests.

WebdriverIO

WebdriverIO

WebdriverIO lets you control a browser or a mobile application with just a few lines of code. Your test code will look simple, concise and easy to read.

Containerum

Containerum

Containerum is built to aid cluster management, teamwork and resource allocation. Containerum runs on top of any Kubernetes cluster and provides a friendly Web UI for cluster management.

TestingBot

TestingBot

TestingBot provides automated and Manual cross browser testing in the cloud. Make sure your website looks ok in all browsers.

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