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What Are the Differences Between a Cloud Container Instance and a Cloud Container Engine?

HUAWEI CLOUD provides enterprises with two CNCF-certified Kubernetes services that feature high-performance, high-availability, and high-security: Cloud Container Engine (CCE) and Cloud Container Instance (CCI).

CCE is a high-performance, high-reliability service through which enterprises can deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications on HUAWEI CLOUD. It supports container runtime environment. CCE is a one-stop container platform that provides full-stack container services from Kubernetes cluster management, lifecycle management of containerized applications, Istio application mesh, and Helm charts to add-on management, application scheduling, and monitoring and O&M. For more details, see CCE.

CCI is a serverless container engine that allows you to run containers without creating and managing servers or clusters. With CCI, enterprises only need to manage containerized services running on Kubernetes. Under the serverless architecture, containerized applications are free of O&M and enterprises can focus on building and operating applications. For more details, see CCI.