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Solutions Architect at Macquarie Group
Easy to use and highly scalable solution
Pros and Cons
- "The initial setup is straightforward."
- "There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
What is our primary use case?
What needs improvement?
There is room for improvement in the pricing model.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for five to ten years now.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a stable solution.
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What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is a scalable solution. It is extensively used in our organization. We have over 5,000 users in our organization.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward. It was pretty quick to deploy the solution.
What about the implementation team?
The deployment was done in-house. It took only 20 minutes to deploy the solution. We have a CloudFormation template, and we deploy using that.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing model is usage-based.
What other advice do I have?
I would definitely recommend using the solution. Overall, I would rate the solution a ten out of ten. It is easy to use.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

Software architect at Elbit Systems Ltd
A scalable and flexible solution that can be useful for development, production, and testing
Pros and Cons
- "The product is flexible."
- "Automation is very hard."
What is our primary use case?
I use the solution for development, production, and testing.
What is most valuable?
The product is flexible. We can get whatever we want in a minute.
What needs improvement?
Automation is very hard.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for two years. I am using the latest version of the solution.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is very good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The tool’s scalability is great. Around 20 to 30 users are using the solution in our organization. It is an enterprise solution.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Previously, we used an on-premise solution.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was okay. The documentation was great. The time taken for deployment depends on whether we want automation. If we want automation, the whole process can take a couple of weeks to set up all the automation.
What about the implementation team?
We deployed the product ourselves. The deployment process is very well documented in Amazon.
What was our ROI?
The ROI is good.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The product is quite expensive. We pay for the license yearly.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend using the product and automating everything from the beginning. Overall, I rate the solution an eight or nine out of ten. We seek support from solution architects for design.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Senior Manager Cloud Network and Security at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
A highly scalable solution that creates servers automatically and quickly
Pros and Cons
- "The solution is highly scalable."
- "The product does not explain why a particular instance is terminated."
What is our primary use case?
I use the product for its availability and scalability features.
What is most valuable?
The solution is highly scalable. If one of the instances has some issue and the server is terminated, or if the production is running on a server and it gets shut down, we would not have any backup plan. We will have to recreate another server and run production. The product helps us by creating another server automatically within a minimum amount of time. This process decreases the impact on production and downtime. The product fulfills all my requirements.
What needs improvement?
The existing instance should not be terminated during scale in and scale out. The product does not explain why a particular instance is terminated. There is no option to check the log either.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We have not found any bug in the solution in the last two years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The product is stable. Around 100 people use the product in our organization.
How was the initial setup?
We can easily deploy the product if we have the documentation. The document is good enough.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The product is cheap.
What other advice do I have?
The solution is cloud-based. If one of our CPUs or memory has an issue or is being utilized more than usual, another instance scales up automatically. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
Lead Data Engineer at Seven Lakes Enterprises, Inc.
Provides flexibility for auto-scaling infrastructure, but the filtering features need improvement
Pros and Cons
- "The product’s most valuable feature is the seamless resizing of web connection."
- "The support to manage the processes could be better."
What is our primary use case?
We use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for production nodes to manage varying loads during peak business hours. It provides the flexibility of auto-scaling infrastructure when there is high traffic.
What is most valuable?
The product’s most valuable feature is the seamless resizing of web connection.
What needs improvement?
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling’s filtering features need improvement. The support to manage the processes could be better. Whenever the product stops working, we have to change the settings and require to find the root cause of the issues. These instance logs should be managed by AWS itself.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for seven years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The product is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have 1000 Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling users. The platform’s scalability features are flexible. We have recently added a few more nodes, and it was easy to change those configurations. It saves costs and time for us.
How are customer service and support?
My recent experience with technical support is pleasant. They are thorough and quick to contact and coordinate with different teams to resolve the root cause.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We use OpenStack, InfraCloud, and other cloud vendors.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup process is straightforward. AWS has a user-friendly UI; we also have information and guidance available on their platform. The initial migration process from on-premises to on-cloud takes time.
The deployment process requires having specific knowledge about the application, including its limitations, dependency analysis, and a backup plan. It is preferable to run it in a lower environment and then do actual deployment. If you have a proper plan, it is easy.
What about the implementation team?
The implementation can be in-house. But depending on the team size and management’s decision, we take help from third-party vendors.
What was our ROI?
We can reduce our infrastructure cost drastically using the product. We have received a good ROI.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The product is expensive. There are no licensing fees, but we have to pay for resources.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling a seven out of ten.
I advise others to plan carefully. The major challenge is to understand performance and load requirements. You can decide the minimum capacity to be optimized and not over-provision it. Additionally, you can run it in a lower environment before going into production. You can figure out the parameters using CloudOps metrics.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Excellent performance, easy to use, quick to install, and integrates well
Pros and Cons
- "The Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling features are simple to use."
- "I would like to see a feature included that has the capability to clone when an instance is being terminated."
What is our primary use case?
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps maintain application availability and allows you to add or remove EC2 instances.
More than one instance can run at one time. You can start and stop instances at any time.
It can run with any application. Linux, as an example, can be installed with it.
Once the EC2 has been created, you can easily log into it.
What is most valuable?
The Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling features are simple to use.
The performance is excellent. It's very easy to use and manage.
We have no issues with the integration of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling.
The user data can be initialized during the startup, which is an excellent feature.
The AMI (Amazon Machine Image) is a helpful feature for the installation process.
What needs improvement?
I would like to see a feature included that has the capability to clone when an instance is being terminated.
We have a few instances with the internal firewall. If for example, I am going to run Linux, and the firewall is open, sometimes it becomes difficult to debug the issue. Also, when you connect from another device, and if the internal IP address table is not deleted, the firewall will be enabled there.
There is no clear understanding of where the issue is. If you connect externally, you have to install SFTP.
I would like debugging capabilities included.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for more than two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
This solution is used by 1,000 people in our organization.
How are customer service and support?
Technical support is good.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Previously, I had not used another solution. I started with AWS.
How was the initial setup?
The installation was fine. We were able to install it with the assistance of AMI.
The installation took less than 10 minutes, but it depends on what you want to install.
This solution is managed by a team of ten administrators.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis.
What other advice do I have?
It is my opinion that serverless, such as Lambda, are preferred over EC2 instances.
I would recommend this solution to others.
I would rate Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling a nine out of ten.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Senior Solutions Architect and Cloud Security Consultant at Cgi Deutschland KG
Integrates with load balancers and helps to reduce operational overheads
Pros and Cons
- "The solution incorporates ease of maintenance and reduction in operational overhead and costs. Patching is also easy."
- "The launch configuration feature doesn't work properly. It needs to improve the load configuration feature along with launch templates. The tool needs to tag feature as well."
What is our primary use case?
The tool serves several purposes. It helps to pass instances automatically. We can perform maintenance on instances and application upgrades.
How has it helped my organization?
The solution incorporates ease of maintenance and reduction in operational overhead and costs. Patching is also easy.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is the tool's ability to integrate with load balancers.
What needs improvement?
The launch configuration feature doesn't work properly. It needs to improve the load configuration feature along with launch templates. The tool needs to tag feature as well.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with the solution since 2016.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling's stability a ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the tool's scalability an eight-point five out of ten.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I rate Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling's pricing a seven out of ten.
What other advice do I have?
I rate the product an eight out of ten.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at HighRadius
An excellent tool for managing application availability without loss of performance
Pros and Cons
- "We appreciate that this solution allows us to run all of our severs through it, meaning that our workloads are mainly on the EC2 instance only."
- "We would like to see improvement in the UI for this solution, so that it is more user-friendly."
What is our primary use case?
We use this solution to scale up the number of VM's that are running during times of heavy traffic or high workload. It covers 5,000 servers over 10 different environments for us.
What is most valuable?
We appreciate that this solution allows us to run all of our severs through it, meaning that our workloads are mainly on the EC2 instance only.
What needs improvement?
We would like to see improvement in the UI for this solution, so that it is more user-friendly.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using this solution for around six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We have found this to be a stable solution during our time using it.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of this solution is good; we increase our usage gradually and consistently, without any issues.
How was the initial setup?
The setup of this solution is very straightforward. It took us two months to deploy it fully, and migrate our workloads to the cloud from being on premises.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The licences for this solution are based on the number of instances. This determines the EC2 type that is used and this is then priced accordingly.
What other advice do I have?
We would rate this solution a 10 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Technical Lead - Network Deployment Engineer at Clouflare
An easy-to-use solution with a great set of APIs
What is our primary use case?
I use the solution in my personal time. I like to play with it and learn a bit of software.
What is most valuable?
The solution is very easy to use, and its APIs are also very good.
What needs improvement?
The product's great, but the pricing could be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been working with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for a few years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate EC2's stability a ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The workspace is something EC2 has embedded, so it's quite good. They have different options to work with it. I rate the scalability a ten out of ten. I'm the only one using the solution.`
How was the initial setup?
EC2 takes a few minutes to deploy. We have more than one option while deploying the solution. We can use the GUI or the command line, making it possible to use the solution's APIs.
What about the implementation team?
The solution can be implemented in-house with the proper knowledge.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
You need some contracts to get support for EC2.
What other advice do I have?
EC2 is a good place to start if you have some good ideas for a business because you can avoid upfront expenses. I believe you can do the same things with Amazon as with Google, Microsoft, or many other companies.
I rate the solution a nine out of ten because you must still learn how to use it first.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

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