Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Reviews

Name: Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4.4 (44 reviews)

4.4 out of 5

44 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps you maintain application availability and allows you to automatically add or remove EC2 instances according to conditions you define. ... Dynamic scaling responds to changing demand and predictive scaling automatically schedules the right number of EC2 instances based on predicted demand.

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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is the #2 ranked solution in top Compute Service solutions. PeerSpot users give Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling an average rating of 8.8 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 44 most recent Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 8.2. (The highest in the category). Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is most commonly compared to Apache Spark: Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling vs Apache Spark. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 64% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 22% of all views.

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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

December 2024

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Featured reviews

Poulav Biswas

Senior Technical Lead at Coach Foundation

We have several instances and applications that we run using WordPress. For that, I needed an easy, secure, and faster solution with different options to back up the website and data. Amazon EC2 offers options to back up data using the S3 version control system, which worked really well for us…

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ShahRushabh

Solutions Architect at Infinite Computer Solutions

I am using the latest version of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling. Before using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, analyze the load which the machines will receive. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling can be very expensive if you fail to decide whether you want to scale horizontally or vertically and scale accordingly. Overall, I rate Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling a nine out of ten.

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Mridu Boruah

Cloud manager at Baxter International Inc.

The spinning up in the solution can be much faster. There are other solutions you can depend on if you cannot even wait for seconds for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to spin up. The solution should be available with certain Microsoft products like an inbuilt MS Word or Office in EC2 since there are use cases where an application needs to access MS Excel to prepare or download a report. The product should have a faster scalability option.

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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling mindshare

As of December 2024, the mindshare of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling in the Compute Service category stands at 11.9%, up from 10.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerAnalyst reports

Type	Title	Date
Category	Compute Service	Dec 22, 2024	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Dec 22, 2024	Download
Comparison	Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling vs AWS Lambda	Dec 22, 2024	Download
Comparison	Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling vs AWS Fargate	Dec 22, 2024	Download
Comparison	Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling vs Apache Spark	Dec 22, 2024	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Apache Spark	4.2	11.1%	90%	64 interviews Add to research
AWS Lambda	4.2	20.3%	93%	79 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"The easy possibility to spin up runtimes according to the needs of the POC, getting a runtime up and running in an easy way, which is accessible over the internet, is valuable for our process."
"The most valuable features include the availability of various services like compute, memory, and database services in the AWS landscape."
"With the ability to set up rules based on demand, network, or traffic, the service offers a necessary level of adaptability."

Room for Improvement

"EC2 is doing what it is intended to do, and I have no specific improvements to suggest."
"There is a need for improvement in understanding the pricing structure, as it is complex and depends on several factors such as the location of data centers."
"Sometimes the configuration is not intuitive."

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Pricing

"As far back as I can remember, I have experience with two types of subscriptions. The first was my personal AWS base, and the second was a corporate license. I can't say much about the corporate license, but I recall they sent the bill every month for the personal subscription, though I could be mistaken."
"Amazon EC2 instances can be very expensive."
"The solution's licensing is based on a pay-as-you-go model. You only pay for the resources you use, whether it's RAM, processing power, or storage. So, it's calculated based on the time you use those resources, typically billed in hours or minutes."